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Finally, here’s the second blogpost on the book Feed. Actually, it was supposed to be posted earlier, but perhaps you can see why I had to get it done today (what a hectic weekend) So here’s the second part:

6. awake

“It felt like I was in a little room.” (pg. 43)

                The feed plays such a big role in the lives of the future people. Without the feed, they feel emotionally unreliant on themselves. They don’t know what to do, or say, and are so confused as to what is actually happening. Truly, this sentence proves how oppressed they are. Once oppressed for a long time, and then released, one is in confusion and feels small, scared, and even stressed.

7. college try

“Everything in my head was quiet. It was fucked.” (pg. 44)

                Reaffirms on the point stated above. The feed was a constant thing, that played a constant role in their lives. They used it as a crutch, and find it disconcerting to live without the constant talk and information stream in their head.

8. boring

“I couldn’t figure out even the littlest reason to paint a picture like that.” (pg. 45)

                The lack of creativity is quite astounding. Since they are dependent on technology to do most of their work, they cannot think for themselves. They don’t even understand the purpose of the painting; they don’t interpret it as ‘art’ or even ‘expression’. It also shows confusion, or an introduction to foreign ideas, lack of understanding, and even uncertainty. As my earlier post had touched on, this may be a recurring symbol or theme.

9. still boring

“Suddenly, our heads felt real empty. At least in the hospital they had better gravity than the hotel.” (pg. 46)

Oh, no. How will they survive without the feed? They feel as If they are missing something extremely important in their life, in their heads. Since they are so uncomfortable, they look for a point of solace, another recurring symbol; better gravity. It had been mentioned before, and they always comment on how gravity is very important, since all gravity on the moon is artificial. Gravity makes things fall back down, a centrifugal force. Therefore, it enhances the theme that all things must fall, or will fall eventually.

10. missing the feed

“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 here’s a chance it will be yours.”  (pg. 48)

I don’t think that much needs to be said about this one. It’s quite self-explanatory; everything you do is noted. The corporations and the governments know your every move, step, all that you do. It is all noted, confirming my earlier suspicion that everyone is under control, their every step is tailored for them. They are controlled completely.

11. cache & carry

“I flipped through them sadly. I went back and forth between them.” (pg. 50)

                Although he may be talking about cached pages that he had saved earlier, it also represents his uncertainty, and furthermore proves that he may be a dynamic character. He is unsure and doesn’t know what to do. He goes ‘back and forth’ showing that he has a lot of choices and he doesn’t know what to choose. This may be a point later on in the story where he won’t know what to do.

12. night. and boring

“I hoped she could see my smile in the light of my brain.” (pg. 54)

                Violet is slowly changing Titus, and he really can see that. Both his heart and brain, not the Feedware, agree that she is someone important, and without bias wants to have her as a someone important in his life. 

13. father

“’Oh. Shit. Yeah, I forgot. No m-chat. Just talking.’” (pg. 55)

                People are so reliant on the Feedware for all their information and daily requirements. People even talk through the Feedware even though the person is right in front of them. This is quite saddening, as it shows that human civilisation is dying slowly, and once again, the species is going to die, although this is actually quite pathetic.

14. salad days, w/sneeze guard

“…and her eyes were vacant like she was seeing some other world, which I guess she was.” (pg. 58)

                The feed represents another mystic world, a world of want, rather than need, where everything one wants is right at their feet, or in their hands. It also represents that the feed takes you somewhere else, and controls you in a way that would not seem intrusive, but rather mystifying. At least that’s my opinion of it.

15. garden

“But a long time ago the glass ceiling over the terrarium had cracked, and so everything was dead, and there was moon dust all over everything out there. Everything was gray.” (pg. 62)

                Everything that is dead is grey. Sorry, I like the British spelling for things. Anyways. This terrarium could represent earth. The atmosphere may have stopped working, the ozone layer just dissipated, and the world is dying. That is why, probably, there is so much pollution, lesions, people aren’t really aware of the world dying. Perhaps, this is a symbol for death, and perhaps, we may see this symbol recur later on in the novel.

16. dead language

“She looked me in the eye. ‘No,” she said, ‘but that’s what I told you.’” (pg. 67)

                Deception is a great device. Also, Violet is portrayed as a slightly vague and mysterious person. She has lied, but is now telling the truth. It also symbolised uncertainty. Should we trust her or not? I predict she will cause great changes in Titus and make the book very exciting.

17. release

“It came down like frickin’ spring rains, and we were dancing in it.” (pg. 70)

                Water represents life, freedom and running free. All the friends found freedom and solace in the feed. Refer to above analysis.