Love, itself, is a simple word, but no word can compare to its power. Love can lead people to their extremes and some people to their downfalls. In Feed by M.T Anderson, the story shadows two lovesick teenagers and their dreadful ending. The story commences as Titus and his friends go to the moon for spring break, where they meet Violet. Shortly after a day on the moon, Titus and his friends, including Violet, are hacked by the Coalition. After they depart back home from the hospital, Violet has a secret; a secret that it will change Titus and Violet’s life forever. Violet’s feed is malfunctioning; she is dying. All this information and Violet’s overload of her memories, bucket list made Titus part from her. In the end, Titus reunites with Violet as she dies. Titus then deliberates, “Everything Must Go” (Anderson 299). In Pixar’s Wall-E, the story set in a robotized and catastrophic earth, surveys a love story between Wall-E and Eva. Although the movie is without words, none are needed to see the love between Wall-E and Eve. Chasing Eva relentlessly, Wall-E embarks on the AXIOM. After the discovery of the plant, the captain of the AXIOM is mesmerized by the beauty of the earth. Inspired, the Captain faces a couple of battles against technology but maneuvers the ship back to earth. Even though the earth is lifeless and adulterated, they begin to nurture it with plants. In analyzing Feed by M.T Anderson and Pixar’s Wall-E, they both share some differences and similarities.
If one compared an apple to an orange, surely one would think they were not similar. In reality, they are alike in different ways. Feed by M.T Anderson and Disney Pixar’s Wall-E share an immense number of similarities in their plots and story lines. First, the...
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... Undoubtedly, Anderson chose to end Feed on a terminal note. Feed shows the world an insight of what the world might come to in a couple of years. Similarly, Feed by M.T Anderson and Disney Pixar’s Wall-E presage what is to come if technology annihilates the world. These books caution people of our reliance on technology is getting out of control. People are becoming increasingly reliant on phones or computers. Feed and Wall-E warn people of the gloomy dystopian worlds that can transmute into the next generations world. Feed and Wall-E symbolizes our caveats for the possible near future destruction.
Works Cited
Anderson, M. T. Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2002. Print.
Scott, A. O. "In a World Left Silent, One Heart Beeps." New York Times 27 June 2008: n. pag. Print.
WALL-E. Dir. Andrew Stanton. Perf. Ben Burett, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin. Pixar, 2008. DVD.
Wall-E and Fahrenheit 451 display a lack of relationships and human communication. The people on the spaceship do not physically interact with one another, they only communicate
Although the silence had no tangible effect in the beginning, it permeated the thoughts of the citizens as the length of the silences grew. When people realized the calming effects of the silence, reliance upon it grew, ultimately creating a political movement in which silence became effectively mandatory. The obsession with silence grew, until noise gained value through scarcity, turning the obsession towards itself. Intervals of noise replaced the intervals of silence, growing in length each time as well. Over time, noise became the major melody of time again, and the silence was all but forgotten in the din of life. Yet in the pattern and intervals of silence and noise, a cryptographer finds a message in morse code, “LISTENWELL” (Brockmeier
On the surface the movies 1984 and Wall-e do not look like they would have very much in common, however if someone was to look deeper into the movies they would see that they have more in common than meets the eye. First, they both try to predict what they believe will happen in the future. 1984 shows a country controlled by a totalitarian government. Wall-e introduces the viewer to a world that is controlled by the company Buy 'n' Large (consumerism). They both show that the two ruling parties, Big Brother and Buy 'n' Large, control their citizens by psychological manipulation, physical control, control of information and history, technology, and use language as mind control. Both of these movies raise the question: “What will 2014 be like?”
The cadets at the Citadel feel this loss of love when they leave their mothers behind at the gates. Over the course of a few months, the boys change so much in their love with the upperclassmen that “‘Mothers can’t even tell their sons apart’” (Faludi 98). The Freshman’s new and harsh experiences make them want to latch on to their mothers, but the only people around are the other boys. As a result, they make connections with the upperclassmen because they want the love that they are being deprived of. While the love they form is like the one they had with their mothers, it is not a perfect replacement. Love can also seem unhealthy here because the boys are simply sustaining a love they cannot have. However, their relationship still opens them up for connections with these other boys they may not have had before. The boys need this love so much that it is better to replace it, even if it is not perfect, than to fall into a pit of despair without it. On the other hand, love is not always so easily replaced in the way the cadets replace their mothers. The children in “Alone Together” find that “They don’t like having a new creature in the same egg where their virtual pet has died. For them, the death of a virtual pet is not so unlike the death of what they call a “‘regular pet’” (Turkle 466). To them this love is not replaceable, if it is not the same it is not good enough. However, what makes love so amazing is that people do not need to have the same love with each person. It is why the kids can pick up different Tamagotchi toys but not reset the same one. If they reset the same one they expect the same type of love. Although, if they get a new one, they are simply replacing that love because they want to feel love in general. Replaceable love does not always have to involve the person but it can revolve around changing the type of love they had.
The opening paragraph of the novel evokes the consequences of unharnessed technology and contemporary man’s contented refusal to acknowledge the consequences (Watt).
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. It is a story that explores all
Technology today is advancing so quickly everyone is trying to get the new one and are so absorbed into what they can do sometime they don't ever look up. Mildred has been exactly the same always wanting more (It’s really fun. It'll be even more fun when the fourth wall is installed? Pg 20). She doesn't even care there is a world out there to see she just wants to watch with her “family”. If we become so wrapped up in technology things around us will change and we won't even care, as long as I have my TV, Cell phone, Instagram, ext. Mildred and her friends don't even know how much has changed and how much they have been brainwashed. They no longer care about the past, and how things use to be, all that matters are the next show. People today are the same, even though we don’t sit inside all day and let the government do what they want doesn’t mean we aren’t that far away from it. Burwell was a 31-year-old man who died in San Diego by accidentally walking off a cliff because he was distracted by his cell phone. More than 3,000 teens die each year in crashes caused by texting while driving. We can use our self-phones to learn languages, see the news, gather information on anything we want, still we just use it for Instagram and
There exists no power as inexplicable as that of love. Love cannot be described in a traditional fashion; it is something that must be experienced in order for one to truly grasp its full enormity. It is the one emotion that can lead human beings to perform acts they are not usually capable of and to make sacrifices with no thought of the outcome or repercussions. Though love is full of unanswered questions and indescribable emotions, one of the most mystifying aspects of love is its timeless nature. Love is the one emotion, unlike superficial sentiments such as lust or jealousy, which can survive for years, or even generations. In the novel The Gargoyle, the author, Andrew Davidson, explores the idea of eternal love between two people, a union that spans over centuries spent both together and apart. Davidson, through the use of flashbacks, intricate plot development and foreshadowing, and dynamic characterization, creates a story that challenges the reader’s preconceived notions regarding whether eternal love can survive even when time’s inevitable grasp separates the individuals in question.
In Feed, the author satirizes our generation’s dependence on technology. For example, while Titus and his friends are in the hospital without feeds they become bored out of their minds. In one scene Titus stares blankly at the walls of his room. “There were five walls, because the room was irregular. One of them had a picture of a boat on it. The boat was on a pond or maybe a lake. I couldn’t find anything interesting about that picture at all. There was nothing th...
... to foretell of a dystopian America that has eerily similar qualities to current- day- America even though he wrote this book over sixty years ago. Just as the novel predicts, People are becoming buried in their technology, leaving books and social interactions lower on peoples’ priority list. They want to have the latest technology to make it seem like they live a successful life. People have turned towards the technology obsessively in order to have fun entertainment and feel happy. Medication consumption is higher than ever and humans are addicted to fast- paced actions that provide them with their coveted entertainment. America is changing, moving towards an alarming technological dystopia just as the America in the novel did.
Love is not simple or easy. The kind of love that will last over time and overcome each obstacle it brings is actually a fair amount of work. In the film Valentine’s Day there are all different kinds of love and some of them thrive while others fail by the end of the day. All these different relationships present an opportunity to analyze how different aspects of communication help people find love and make it last.
Humans certainly have this ability to live our everyday lives without the extreme use of the constant technology around. It's like people have become so dependent on it to live our daily lives that it’s almost like an incurable addiction for us. In the Pixar movie “Wall-e”, the human race have destroyed planet earth due to their lack of care for our very environment. They then are sadly forced to move and then into living in space on a ship called the Axiom because the planet is inhabitable to support any type of life (Wall-e). The character Wall-e is just one of many robots who were created to help clean up the planet (Wall-e). The movie isn't going out and saying that we should just get rid of technology completely
The Feed is literally an organ, an integral part of your body: "Before that, computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe" (47). This goes to show how people have become so integrated with technology that they cannot discern it from an internal element of themselves. Electric media, in this sense, are less an extension of the body, but rather an incorporation, an organ that infiltrates and fuses with the brain. The Feed cannot actually be turned off, only disconnected, because, as Violet, one of the main characters point out, "it's tied in everywhere. They said the limbic system, the motor cortex…the hippocampus. They listed all this stuff. If the feed fails too severely, it could interfere with basic processes." (171).
In summary, both the article and the novel critique the public’s reliance on technology. This topic is relevant today because Feed because it may be how frightening the future society may look like.
Jon Negroni spent one year unraveling the unknown world concealed deep within Pixar films. This thesis statement originally appeared on his personal blog and quickly became a viral sensation.