Finishing Feed

In my last reading of Feed, I grew very upset with Titus. Specifically, when he deleted all of Violet’s memories from his feed. To me, it seemed very insensitive, and just plain terrible. I was glad at the end when Titus got to speak with Violet’s father. I felt like he was able to kind of shed some light on Titus, and how bad his actions were. I was glad Titus was able to see the suffering that Violet had to unfortunately endure, and one line that stuck out to me was when Titus said he was sorry, and Violet’s father said, “What about for what you didn’t do?” I think this was Titus’s biggest mistake. It wasn’t that he had treated Violet wrong, it was more about what he didn’t do for her. He didn’t give her all the love he could have given her. He used her up and threw her away when he was done with her. Violet’s father related Titus’s actions to that of the culture of consumption he saw happening in Feed’s America. When he pointed out that Titus had made Violet feel sorry for dying I felt really terrible, and angry at Titus. Only when Titus visited her the last time, did I start to think he was redeeming himself a little bit. It showed that he truly cared for Violet, reading to her short lines of the things she liked to talk about. About conspiracies and the danger of the world. I hope that she was able to hear him so that she has a nice last memory of Titus, and not of their fight in the mountains. I was also very intrigued by the very last page of the book, and the lines, “Everything must go.” I really wonder what M.T. Anderson was trying to hint at with these lines. I imagine it had something to do with consumerism and the effects of the feed that the book showed, but I cannot completely decide. Overall, I enjoyed reading this book for the most part, and really liked how it picked at possible technological advancements, and the possible dangers of things like the feed.