Blog #25: Discussion Questions Week #5

Do Titus's actions (and non-actions) in his relationship with Violet strike you as realistic? How do you think you would act if you were in his place.

       I think Titus is a jerk and he is also another more vulgar word that I won't say in fear of getting in trouble. I don't believe what he did was realistic at all because any sane person would be there for her every moment and would try to do as much of her list as possible. But maybe that's the problem because Titus might not be sane or at least not in his right mind. Everyone in Feed seems to be detached, emotionally, from one another. Everyone kinda seems replaceable to them (at least that's how I see it).



1:  Open-Ended  :
Do you think the United States is the only one to blame for the state that the planet is in?
       The U.S. is not the ruler of the world (as much as we like to think we are) and other first world countries can step up and take a stand as well. There always seems to be someone to blame because no one likes to admit it was their own fault.

2:  Theme  :
Near the end of the book people start to disintegrate in a way, what do you think this is meant to symbolize?
       I think it is supposed to mean that as the people of America begin to fall apart so does their grip on power. The truth starts to come out and people finally come to their senses (perhaps a bit too late even) and try to change.

3:  Open-Ended/World Connection  :
In the end of the book other countries are threatening to use nuclear missiles to destroy the U.S. at what other time in U.S. history was something like that happening and why?
       Well first off I think it's a bit ironic that to solve the worlds problems of destroying the planet we are using weapons of mass destruction. This also shows that we tend to act before we think. The other time this happened was during the Cold War. America was trying to spread democracy (even though we're a republic) and because we wanted to police the world some people didn't like us. So there was a constant "I have more/better missiles than you" with Russia and we were at the brink of destruction. So now in Feed our influence (or our negative influence) has spread across the world too much and now we are paying the price.