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    A Study Guide for M. T. Anderson's "Feed"
    A Study Guide for M. T. Anderson's "Feed"
    A Study Guide for M. T. Anderson's "Feed"
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    A Study Guide for M. T. Anderson's "Feed"

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    A Study Guide for M. T. Anderson's "Feed," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535823227
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      A Study Guide for M. T. Anderson's "Feed" - Gale

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      Feed

      M. T. Anderson

      2002

      Introduction

      In M. T. Anderson's best-selling young-adult novel Feed (2002), young people in the future have microchips implanted in their brains shortly after birth connecting them wirelessly to an Internet-like feed supplied by the megacorporation Feed-Tech. In this future world, everyone is encouraged to buy consumer goods. Inspired by what he sees as a loss of intelligence in youth culture, Anderson created a cautionary tale about what happens when people submit to consumerism and information overload. Titus and Violet, a young couple from radically different backgrounds, discover that love is not enough to overcome the feed. While the opening scenes can be humorous, the book becomes increasingly grim and dark by the end. Readers should be aware that the book includes off-color language and some references to drug use inappropriate for younger readers.

      Author Biography

      Anderson was born as Matthew Tobin Anderson on November 4, 1968, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Will Anderson, an engineer, and his wife, Juliana Anderson, an Episcopal priest. When he was young, the family lived in Italy for a period, and he became fascinated with ruins. He attended St. Mark's School, in Southborough, Massachusetts, before entering Harvard University in 1987. He proceeded to study at Cambridge University in England, where he was awarded a BA in 1991. Between 1993 and 1996, Anderson worked as an editorial assistant at Candlewick Press, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

      At the age of thirty, Anderson published his first young-adult novel, Thirsty (1997), the story of a high-school student who suddenly thinks he is becoming a vampire. This debut earned him significant attention. After earning a master of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, in New York, in 1998, he followed Thirsty with another young-adult novel, Burger Wuss, in 1999. Next, Anderson wrote the text for a picture book for children, Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, published in 2001. This book was named a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book for Nonfiction in 2002. Meanwhile, from 2000 to 2006, Anderson taught courses in writing for younger readers in the MFA program at Vermont College in Montpelier.

      With the 2002 publication of Feed, Anderson became a very well-recognized writer of literature for young people. The book was named a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award. In 2003, Feed won a Los Angeles Times Book Award and was also named a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction. After penning several more children's books, Anderson returned to young-adult fiction with The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. The first volume of this title, The Pox Party, was published in 2006, as followed by volume two, The Kingdom on the Waves, in

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