Dialectical Journal Entry: FEED by M.T. Anderson

Passages from the Text	Page #	Comments and Questions
‘The first thing I felt was no credit.’	44 Chapter awake	(R ) This passage captures how intertwined humans are with technology. The first thing he felt when he had a woken from an induced ‘coma’ was that his feed didn’t have money. Robots and technology don’t have feelings; so how can he feel that the technology is gone?
“What do we do” she asked. I didn’t know’	45 Chapter boring	(CL) It seems that is true. The characters have been raised during this extreme era of technology, that they don’t know what to do without it. It’s like today’s teenagers’ technology addiction problem times 10; except it’s not seen as a problem any longer in the future.
‘We were frightened and kept touching our heads, our heads felt real empty.’	46 Chapter: still boring	(Q ) Are their brains weak from just listening to the feed their whole lives? Or can they actually really feel the technology with in them, which they are missing?
‘Computers were all outside their body. They carried them around in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened them to breathe.’	47 Chapter: missing the feed	(CL) It’s clear and true now. The feed is an organ which the humans in this story think they need to survive. They don’t know independence; they don’t have individuality.
‘The other was a good sale at Whetherbee & Crotch, which by this time, I had probably missed.’	50 Chapter: cache & carry	(C ) The world of the future is actually much like today’s world news or global economy. It is ever changing and very fast paced. The only difference is that in the future stores on different planets even seems to be hard to keep up with (if it weren’t for the feed).
‘So we just sat there, together, and didn’t say anything. It wasn’t that bad.’	54 Chapter: Night. And boring	(E ) At this point I hope that Titus and the other characters are learning that sometimes peace is nice. That sometimes people just need to think, for themselves, on their own.
‘Yeah they’re busy with jobs and stuff. They couldn’t come at all.’	56 Chapter: Father	(E ) This is actually really sad. I tink Violet was enjoying herself last night alone at the bar because she’s used to being alone. Maybe Titus and his friends can bring more happiness and friends to her life
‘Maybe these are our salad days.’ ‘You know happy.’	60 Chapter: Salad days w/Sneeze guard	(Q ) These kids were just ‘attacked’ by a stranger and these are their happy days? The days that are in a hospital stripped from their feed?
‘She was staring at me and I was staring at her, and I moved toward her and we kissed.’	63 Chapter: The Garden	(CL) I knew there was going to be romance between Titus and Violet since the first page they saw each other. It’s cute, but I think they’re going to have bigger things to worry about (just because there’s an ominous feeling).

‘I looked at her funny. You write?’	65 Chapter: Dead Language	These kids have become so dependent on the Feed. They can’t even write. They’re communicating, but not in the age old way by pen and paper.
‘The salad days couldn’t last forever. Everyone wanted to get back to Earth, the moon sucked.’	68 Chapter: release	( P ) I completely agree, the moon would’ve sucked for me too if I was attacked and left in a foreign hospital during my spring break. It was the time to have fun, not live in a hospital.

The fun continuous and even if this section of the story was very straightforward, many things about Violet and Titus were still revealed.
Enjoy!!!