Feed (2002) (edit title/settings)

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• Titus: He is the protagonist. He meets and develops feelings for Violet and his life changes rapidly as he has several epiphanies and realizations about the way he had been living and thinking.
• Violet: Violet is an unusual girl who walks into Titus' life. She thinks and lives differently than he and his friends. She ends up becoming the conflict as well as the love interest. She grew up in a different world almost as she has a deeper understanding of the world.
• Link: Friend of Titus.
• Calista: Link's girlfriend. Titus' friend.
• Quendy: Titus' friend. Has gigantic crush on Link. She is ridiculously trendy and over-obsessed with being "in". This results in part of the conflict that develops between Titus and Violet.
• Marty: Friend of Titus
• Loga: Friend of Titus, a girl.
• Smell Factor: Titus' younger brother.

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• “...the moon was just like it always is, after your first few times there, when you get over being like, Whoa, unit! The moon! ... and instead there's just the rockiness, and the suckiness, and the craters all being full of old broken shit, like domes nobody's using anymore and wrappers and claws.”

  Titus

• “Quendy and Loga went off to the bathroom because hairstyles had changed.”

  Titus

• “I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.”

  Titus

• “...sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it's like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Except with talking, it's more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown.”

  Titus

• “I looked at her funny. 'You write?' I said. 'With a pen?' 'Sure,' she said, a little embarrassed. She wrote something down. She put the pad of paper on my lap. She asked me, 'Do you know how to read?' I nodded. 'I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent E is stupid.'”

  Titus and Violet

• “You're as handsome as a duck in butter.”

  Titus' dad

• “This is dinner together. That' means family networking and defragging time.”

  Titus' dad

• “He's not the quickest bunny in the centrifuge.”

  Violet

• “Could the dancing be in a nightclub with lots of mirrors? And people wear tuxedos, and there's a big band, and perhaps some mob activity? And you'll keep staring at a cigarette girl named Belinda, from Oklahoma, and I'll say, 'Damn you, man -- damn you -- can't you keep your eyes in your sockets like everyone else?'”

  Violet

• “That's one of the great things about the feed--that you can be super smart without ever working. Everyone is super smart now. You can look things up automatic, . . . like if you want to know all the battles of the Civil War George Washington fought in and shit.”

  Titus

• “School (TM) is not so bad now, not like back when my grandparents were kids, when the schools were run by the government, which sounds completely like, Nazi, to have the government running the schools?”

  Titus

• “Now That the School(TM) is rum by corperations, it's pretty brag, becasuse it teaches us how the world can be used, like mainly how to use our feeds”

  Titus

• “(Violet) ' There's a forest. It's called Jefferson Park. We're thinking about going either there, or out to beef country.' (Titus's Dad) ' It'll have to be beef country. The forest's gone.'(Violet) ' Jefferson Park? '(T's Dad) ' yea, that was knocked down to make an air factory.'(V) ' you're kidding!'(T's D) ' That's what happened. You got to have air.'(V) 'Trees make air'(T's D) You you know how inefficient they are'”

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• Because of the feed, we’re raising a nation of idiots. Ignorant, self-centered idiots.

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• “We Americans,” he said, “are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they were produced, or what happens to them” — he pointed at his daughter — “what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.”

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• Everything we think and feel is taken in by the corporations, mainly by data ones like Feedlink and OnFeed and American Feedware, and they make a special profile, one that’s keyed just to you, and then they give it to their branch companies, or other companies buy them, and they can get to know what it is we need, so all you have to do is want something and there’s a chance it will be yours.

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• That’s one of the great things about the feed — that you can be supersmart without ever working. Everyone is supersmart now. You can look things up automatic, like science and history, like if you want to know which battles of the Civil War George Washington fought in and shit.

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• “What I’m doing, what I’ve been doing over the feed for the last two days, is trying to create a customer profile that’s so screwed, no one can market to it. I’m not going to let them catalog me. I’m going to become invisible.”

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• When no one was going to pay for the public schools anymore and they were all like filled with guns and drugs and English teachers who were really pimps and stuff, some of the big media congloms got together and gave all this money and bought the schools so that all of them could have computers and pizza for lunch and stuff, which they gave for free, and now we do stuff in classes about how to work technology and how to find bargains and what’s the best way to get a job and how to decorate our bedroom.

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• “He says the language is dying. He thinks words are being debased. So he tries to speak entirely in weird words and irony, so no one can simplify anything he says.”

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• “We enter a time of calamity. Blood on the tarmac. Fingers in the juicer. Towers of air frozen in the lunar wastes. Models dead on the runways, with their legs facing backward. Children with smiles that can’t be undone. Chicken shall rot in the aisles. See the pillars fall.”

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• “Look at us! You don’t have the feed! You are feed! You’re feed! You’re being eaten! You’re raised for food! Look at what you’ve made yourselves!” She pointed at Quendy, and went, “She’s a monster! A monster! Covered with cuts! She’s a creature!”

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• 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.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• America
• The Moon

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Glossary edit see section history

• Feed: An electronic chip in the brain that tells it everything it needs to know.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. M. T. Anderson (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• National Book Award (Finalist, 2002)
• Boston Globe/Horn Book Award (Finalist, 2003: Fiction)
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2002: Young Adult Literature)

Notes for Parents edit see section history

as they say in the book, bad language and mildly sexual situations.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Social Situations › Values › Fiction
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror › Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
• Books › Teens › Authors, A-Z › ( A ) › Anderson, M.T.
• Books › Teens › Social Issues › Being a Teen
• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction

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