Summary:
During their trip to the mountains, Titus and Violet get into an argument after Titus stops Violet tells him she wanted to loose her virginity to him before she dies. This makes Titus realize that he sees her as already dead. Like a zombie. Violet expresses that she just wanted to get a boyfriend like a normal girl, do normal things, and become more anturally laid back and just have fun--live! But Titus takes this the wrong way and start arguing. They went home that night. The next day, Violet offered a truce and apologizes. Titus ignored her and goes out with Quendy a few months later. Bad things started happeneing, like hair and skin falling off of people. One night Titus receives a message from Violet's father so he decided it was urgent and visits her. Violet was trapped in her own body. She couldn't speak. Couldn't move. Yet she was still somewhat conscious. Violets father yells at Titus, explaining to him that Titus had made Violet apologize for being sick. For being courageous. For dying. This must've hit Titus hard because the next day when he goes to visit her, he tells her stories on the news. Then he cries for the first time, telling Violet about their story. The story of a normal guy and a girl with the heart of gold in the final days of America. They have adventures together and learn an important lesson about love and to resist the feed. At the end ''Everything Must Go'' is repeated and fades out in little fonts. This either symolizes Violet's death, her final thoughts, or Titus' realization of the bad affects of the Feed.
Quote:
''Sometimes that made me feel kind of tired. It was like I kept buying these things to be cool, but cool was always flying just ahead of me, and I could never exactly catch up to it. I felt like I'd been running toward it for a lone time.'' (Anderson, 279)
Reaction:
I chose that quote because it showed that Titus realized that in the world of the Feed, you can never quite achieve your goals. This is because the Feed provides new things, new statements, and new definitions of 'cool' everyday, crushing anyones hopes of ever becoming what they want. Their ideal model of perfect or who they want to be always molts and changes. Titus realizes that he's been trying to chase unrealistic goals that he'll never achieve.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Feed Pg 245-264
Summary:
One morning Violet sends Titus an attachment of her full Feed-Sim of her sensations. This puts Titus in Violet's shoes by allowing him to feel her emotions, senses, and memory. Titus felt Violet's legs go numb and stop woring. Suddenly Nina, the customer service assistant tells Violet/Titus that her petition for feed repairs and/or replacement was turned down because of her spontatneous shopping ways, which confused companies about who she was (they organized people based on their Feed searches). At night, Violet tells Titus about her research of rituals where singing was often done in many different ways all around the world. She tells him shes afraid of silence and afraid to loose her past. She sends him alot of her memories the next few days, but Titus deletes them all without opening them. That weekend, Violet went over to his house to go to the mountains, one of the many things she wanted to do before possibly dying. On the ride there, she tells him that she wants her Feed to be off. Not dormant, off.
Quote:
''...I'm afraid I'm going to lose my past. Who are we, if we don't have a past?'' (Anderson 253)
Reaction:
I chose this quote because it kind of related to our English class discussion of moral disobediance. That is, what so we care about so deeply that makes us who we are. This question, as well as the one Violet poses on page 253, are both questions of identity and what makes us who we are. I chose this quote because I agreed with Violet, that our past memories and experiences make us who we are, and if we are ever to loose them, it would be highly unfortunate. The fact that she tells this to Titus, makes her more vulnerable.
One morning Violet sends Titus an attachment of her full Feed-Sim of her sensations. This puts Titus in Violet's shoes by allowing him to feel her emotions, senses, and memory. Titus felt Violet's legs go numb and stop woring. Suddenly Nina, the customer service assistant tells Violet/Titus that her petition for feed repairs and/or replacement was turned down because of her spontatneous shopping ways, which confused companies about who she was (they organized people based on their Feed searches). At night, Violet tells Titus about her research of rituals where singing was often done in many different ways all around the world. She tells him shes afraid of silence and afraid to loose her past. She sends him alot of her memories the next few days, but Titus deletes them all without opening them. That weekend, Violet went over to his house to go to the mountains, one of the many things she wanted to do before possibly dying. On the ride there, she tells him that she wants her Feed to be off. Not dormant, off.
Quote:
''...I'm afraid I'm going to lose my past. Who are we, if we don't have a past?'' (Anderson 253)
Reaction:
I chose this quote because it kind of related to our English class discussion of moral disobediance. That is, what so we care about so deeply that makes us who we are. This question, as well as the one Violet poses on page 253, are both questions of identity and what makes us who we are. I chose this quote because I agreed with Violet, that our past memories and experiences make us who we are, and if we are ever to loose them, it would be highly unfortunate. The fact that she tells this to Titus, makes her more vulnerable.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Feed Pg 190-244
Summary:
At a party, Calista gets a lesion, which are cuts on the skin, to impress her boyfriend Link. At the next party, Quendy comes in with lesions all over her body to get attention from evreyone, especially Link. Eventually Violet starts screaming and asking 'Whats wrong with everyone?' While there was starvation and problems going on in the world, evreyone was cutting themselves and partying. She calls Quendy a monster and her feed malfunctions, leaving her body unmovable. She was put in the hospital and lost a year of memories of when she was 6 (when she got the feed). After that, when Violet tries to contact Titus via the feed, he ignores her and her messages. One day Titus goes to Link's house with Marty, and they all go into mal (malfunction, which is kind of like drugs where they blank out and loose control). Only then does he realize he had to apologize to Violet, so he drives over and promises to do the list Violet sent him about the things she wanted to do. He promises to find the mountains with her (one of the things on her list).
Quote:
''...Look at what you've made yourselves!'' She pointed at Quendy, and went ''She's a monster! A monster! Covered with custs! She's a creature!'' (Anderson 202).
Reaction:
When I first read that quote I immediately agreed with Violet. When I found out what lesions were, and that everyone could see ''all the red fibers through the splits in the skin.'' (Anderson 198). It shocked me that this is how Anderson imaged a future for us, where the feed controls us, and now tattoos become lesions, or cuts. This quote shows that Violet is different from others, she knows the difference between wrong and right, which everyone else seemed to have forgotten.
At a party, Calista gets a lesion, which are cuts on the skin, to impress her boyfriend Link. At the next party, Quendy comes in with lesions all over her body to get attention from evreyone, especially Link. Eventually Violet starts screaming and asking 'Whats wrong with everyone?' While there was starvation and problems going on in the world, evreyone was cutting themselves and partying. She calls Quendy a monster and her feed malfunctions, leaving her body unmovable. She was put in the hospital and lost a year of memories of when she was 6 (when she got the feed). After that, when Violet tries to contact Titus via the feed, he ignores her and her messages. One day Titus goes to Link's house with Marty, and they all go into mal (malfunction, which is kind of like drugs where they blank out and loose control). Only then does he realize he had to apologize to Violet, so he drives over and promises to do the list Violet sent him about the things she wanted to do. He promises to find the mountains with her (one of the things on her list).
Quote:
''...Look at what you've made yourselves!'' She pointed at Quendy, and went ''She's a monster! A monster! Covered with custs! She's a creature!'' (Anderson 202).
Reaction:
When I first read that quote I immediately agreed with Violet. When I found out what lesions were, and that everyone could see ''all the red fibers through the splits in the skin.'' (Anderson 198). It shocked me that this is how Anderson imaged a future for us, where the feed controls us, and now tattoos become lesions, or cuts. This quote shows that Violet is different from others, she knows the difference between wrong and right, which everyone else seemed to have forgotten.
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