Dialectical Journal entry: FEED by M. T. Anderson
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Passages from the text
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Pg#s
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Comments & Questions
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“We went to the moon to
have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”
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Pg 1 Chapter: Your Face is Not an Organ
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(E) Are these characters spoiled or what? It’s
the first sentence of the book and I don’t know anything about them except
that this must be based in the future because there just casually saying the
moon sucks!!! I don’t understand this, but anyway maybe there wasn’t anything
to do on the moon.
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“We ordered some fancy
nutrient IV’s from room service but they gave us all headaches.”
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Pg 9: Chapter: Impact
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(C ) This quote gives me a real personal
connection. IV’s are things that are used to save a life, people are so
unhealthy now, but it seems like they don’t get any healthier in the future.
If you us an IV as a fun drink then you probably aren’t drinking what you
should (water).
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“Quendy is just like a
kind of broken, little economy model of Calista, and she knows that, and
feels really bad about it. But when this girl helped her, it wasn’t like
that. Quendy was the center of everyone for a long time.
That was why I kept
looking at the girl in gray, and I started to want, more than anything else
that night, to be with her.”
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Pg 25
Chapter:
The Nose Grid |
(E) What can I say? It was love at first sight. The girl
in gray had something that charmed Titus to the point where he couldn’t stop
looking at her. She was beautiful. She helped and made others even more
beautiful too. That takes somebody real beautiful to do. She knows how to
make others feel good and analyze things to incredible manner (“your lesion,
it’s on the edge of your face, so it frames your face. The good grid. See you
have this great grid.”).
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“They were protesting all
these things, some of them even were protesting the feed. They were like
shouting, “Chip in my head, I’m better off dead.”
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Pg 32
Chapter:
The Moon is in the House of Boring
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(P) I predict that something is going to happen.
Something big, the people are going to get angry, real angry and rise against
the feed, but the feed is strong and it is going to be a big conflict.
(C,) This reminds me of protests and people
against governments secret services. It reminds of people protesting against
agencies having the ability to look at your phone records, google searches
and texts. Just imagine the ability to read your thoughts like the feed.
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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.”…And then they touched us and bodies fell and
there was nothing else.”
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Pg 39
Chapter:
The Moon is in the House of Boring
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(CL) It seems that something is going to happen.
The old man must’ve been a rebel against the feed and did something to their
feeds too. The feed seems to have total control of a person the only thing
that prevailed was one Titus wanted to hold Violets hand, their love allowed
them to connect.
(Q) What is going to happen in jail, will the
police find out it wasn’t their fault?
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(P.S. I've read way more than 40 pages)

Absolutely outstanding connections here, Chenika. Very well done.
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