feed Flashcards
finish the quote; “You don’t have the feed! You are the…
…feed! You’re being eaten! You’re raised for food”
finish the quote; “School™ is run by corporations…
…it teaches us how the world can be used, like mainly how to use our feeds … they care about America’s future”
finish the quote; “we went to the moon to have fun…
but the moon turned out to completely suck”
finish the quote; “her whole skin was cut up with these artificial lesions…
…the cuts were like eyes”
distinctive quality that allows Anderson’s voice to be heard (especially through Violet)
authorial intrusion
distinctive quality that shows the characters have a lack of strong vocabulary
colloquial language
distinctive quality; two different tones Anderson uses to depict his attitude throughout the novel
dual tones - satirical and sombre
distinctive quality that shows the characters cannot hold focus and often are interrupted by the feed
short chapters
distinctive quality; the characters are disrupted by the feed when in the middle of thoughts, conversations, etc.
technological intrusion
distinctive quality; slanted writing often depicting the words of the feed
italics
distinctive quality that shows the novel is set in later years
futuristic setting
distinctive quality; Titus narrates the book
first-person narration
distinctive quality; examples include; “your face is not an organ” and “the moon is in the house of boring”
nonsensical chapter titles
distinctive quality that shows Violet is slowly dying
percentage chapter titles
techniques of; “Marty got a Nike speech tattoo, it was pretty brag”
allusion to corporations in the modern world and the world of feed and satirical tone