Sunday, January 16, 2011
Feed: A book that changed my life!
How many times have you sat at home on Facebook one night? Or made it through a difficult research paper through the help of Google Books and Wikipedia? We've started to rely so much on the technology being made available to us that we're taking advantage of the life there is to live outside of our computers. This is what Feed taught me. Violet, a character in Feed, is slowly diminishing to nothing through the malfunction of her Feed. It's only at this descent that she realizes what she didn't learn in life or do because she relied on the functions of her Feed. The world is dying all around her and no one was listening, no one was doing anything to help because they were all ruled by their own Feeds. Violet's story taught me that I can't sit and be ignorant even though I can't do much to change the world. It does something to know the negative effects of how media and the government control our lives. We can make it better for ourselves. I think everyone should read Feed and see how it changes them, I guarantee that you won't be disappointed.
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I completely agree with you, I can't really imagine my life without the availability of technology. It's weird to think that without the internet, we would actually have to go to the library to do research... Wow, I sound like such a spoiled American teenager, but in reality, I'm sure we all have that same train of thought.
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