Feed pg 50-190

Summary:
     After the feed hacking incident on the moon, everyone's feeds were fixed and they returned home. Everything went back to normal and Violet and Titus started dating. She reveals to him that she wrote (with pen and paper, which was a rarity), her father was a college professor of dead languages, and that after the hacking incident, her feed has been spontaneously disfuntioning. She got her feed later than other kids, like around 7, which is bad since the feed was suppost to be connected to all the nerves in the human body. Violet started to think more and figured out that the feed made people less varied and categorized people, so to resist the feed, she would look up random stuff she wouldnt buy to confuse the corporations that categorize her. Violet felt that ''Because of the feed, we're raising a nation of idiots. Ignorant self centered idiots.'' (Anderson 113). This was supported by the fact that Titus' parents bought him an upcar after he asks them if he was dumb. A question they never confirmed nor denied.

Quote:
     ''Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling inside us, like the little Russian dolls.'' (Anderson 91)

Reaction:
     I agreed with Violet that the feed controlled too much of a person. It was like the internet connected to your every thought where you never had to think. In that quote on page 91, Violet encourages Titus to think; to use his brain instead of letting the feed use him. I chose this quote over another quote because it just seemed like a big step for Titus. He was like everyone else before Violet, but now that Violet started to resist the feed, she introduces him into a world of knowledge, and he started to think. I also liked Violet's use of simile in comparing their brains rattling to little Russian dolls.