Jack Lavey Due 1/19/12 W6 1/3 Feed Independent Novel Journal Feed 1/3 Setting To begin, the novel

Feed by M.T. Anderson is a futuristic fiction about corporations overrunning the world. A basic plot overview is that everyone on the planet is implanted with a neurological microchip which allows them to perform all of a computer or TVs functions within their minds. This technology is called the feed and is operated by several big businesses that everyone respects greatly. The novel begins as a group of highly ignorant teenagers take a trip to the moon; the futures version of Las Vegas. There they meet a quiet = yet quirky girl named Violet who is seen as radical because she wears natural fibers and doesnt participate in no gravity parties. But soon enough, the group convinces her to come to one of those parties where each of their feeds is turned off by a strange man at the club. The group doesnt know what to do without their feeds, so they become hospitalized until the feed doctors can figure out how to get them back online. This novels setting of this book is extremely important to its plotline. The futuristic environment allows the author to be able to write about partying on the moon without it being a problem. All of the major events in the novel take place in very foreign, very unknown places such as the moon or a hotel with minimal gravity. Yet Anderson has woven them in as if they are as common as walking through the park. Another integral part of the novel, the metaphor for corporate domination, would be impossible were it not for the books future setting. Imagine if the novel took place today. Having businesses doing brain surgery would be unheard of! But because the book takes place in an unknown time, it is completely normal. The final part of the futuristic setting that makes this books plot flow smoothly is that it predicts what humans may be like in the future. All of the constant media that flows through the characters minds causes everyone, even doctors, to talk as if they are thirteen year old boy band groupies. The future setting allows us to see that the path of corporate domination that we are currently on could possibly cause terrible consequences not too far off from the present day. All in all, Feeds futuristic setting, lingo, and overall timeframe allow for the storys main metaphor of corporate takeover to flow smoothly throughout the plotline, and also allow the readers to put themselves into such an unknown period.