A child is currently completing her final year of secondary school. An assigned novel; Feed, by M.T. Anderson, was lying around the house. In a mode that led to these questions linked, I offer these comprehension questions of Feed:
- Given
what happened to Violet, why would anyone voluntarily accept the Feed
implant? What pressures are there in society to motivate someone to accept
the Feed implant?
- If
man fools with nature there tends to be consequences. There are benefits
to the Feed, but also costs. What costs are there to those who accept the
feed?
- In what movies, or cartoons, have upcars been depicted? How would traffic rules need to change to allow for upcar traffic?
- Think
of new jobs that may be required to allow for the Feed to operate and for
the feed to be maintained. Write a job advertisement for such a job.
- In
Brave
New World, by Aldous Huxley, the characters have lupus. In Feed, the
characters have lesions. What are the authors of such novels trying to convey
when such diseases are present in an otherwise pristine world?
- Are
Titus and his friends slaves? If so, who are they slaves too?
- Did
Titus and his friends use their Feed downtime in the hospital on the moon
wisely? How may have they have made better use of that time?
- Very
late in the novel Titus finds that he cannot will a light globe to turn
on. How in the future will we distinguish from what is connected to the
internet of things to that which is not?
- What is the irony of the novel ending with the repeated advertising slogan: "Everything must go"?
- Violet's father begs Titus to go be with the Eloi (a post-human race). In what ways is Titus post-human (for example: think of how little Titus understands of the technology that he uses).
Shalom,
Ozhamada

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