Feed Analysis

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow Feed takes place in an America of the near future, maybe 100 or so years after our present day. Sure, this world has its good points, like science and technol...

Everything in this book is fed to us (see what we did there?) through Titus, the main character. It's like we're right there in his head. Check this out: And then the feed was going, it was doing...

Dystopian Literature If you've read seen or read The Hunger Games, you know the drill. Dystopian literature is all about portraying a fictional society—usually futuristic, but not always—where...

This one's just filled with satire. Almost everything is over-exaggerated for comic effect, like how Calista, Quendy, and Loga flit off to the bathroom many times because hairstyles have changed (i...

Rev the Engine Feed is brisk—so brisk that reading it is kind of like zooming along in Titus's upcar. M.T. Anderson doesn't waste a lot of time in moving things along, and events often come at y...

This one seems like a piece of cake: the book's called Feed because it's about this all-pervasive Internet/ social network/ iPod/ video gaming console/ every-smartphone-app-ever-invented...

"O dear white children casual as birds,Playing among the ruined languages,So small beside their large confusing words,So gay against the greater silencesOf dreadful things you did..."—from "Anthe...

At the end of the book, Violet can't talk, move, or even think. Her feed function is at a mere 4.6% (which means it's really, really bad). We would probably call this a coma. In the last scene, Tit...

Once in a while, Feed throws in a real, SAT-busting word like "suppuration" or "intercrural." Mostly, though, you can stash your dictionary: the only difficult words here are ones that you'r...

To the Moon… and Beyond! Titus and his pals take a rocket ride to the moon for some fun spring break action. Our main guy Titus has recently broken up with his girlfriend, Loga, and is now loo...

The "M.T." in M.T. Anderson stands for "Matthew Tobin." He usually goes by "Tobin." Sounds like the kind of guy who would wear a tweed jacket and a bow tie, doesn't it? (source)Anderson got Titus's...

Feed rates a solid PG-13 on the steaminess scale—and maybe pushes that in at least one place.For one, it's pretty clear that these teens are looking for some hook-up action (although this is no...

Literary and Philosophical References "All shall be well . . . and all shall be well . . . and all manner of things shall be well" (29.35). This is a famous line from Julian of Norwich's Reve...