Feed Part B. Art or Not?

We were told to consider the possibility that M.T. Anderson's book feed could be seen as a work of art. Asking our self's why he made those creative decisions? Why is Feed portrayed as a tragedy? Is feed a mirror to show us whats really going on with our self's in our own world or is feed a hammer forcing his ideas into our minds?

I personally think that Feed is a work of art in all forms, for its allegory representing us modern day teenagers. For the setting it takes place in things as simple as the language the characters use in the book.

I think that Feed was portrayed as a tragedy because its point was to show the negative side that digitalization has had on modern day teenagers today. it would be wrong to make it into a story book ending because i think this book was meant to show us what we have been to blind to notice. Bert Brecht once said "Art is not a Mirror with which to reflect the World. It is a Hammer with which to shape it." i think this book was meant to be a mirror and not a hammer. a mirror being the reflection of who we are in the digital world, allowing us to see what we have really become.

I also think the setting that M.T. Anderson puts the characters in is art as well because it reflects the kind of world we live in today. everyone in feed begins to develope lesions on the bodies, representing how the enviroment effects our bodies because we are hurting the enviroment so its doing the same back to us.

To be honest idont think the book was sucessful in getting people to understand the real point but i think he was sucsessful in making his idea intoa really good story. I remember andy telling us in class that when this book first came out people were asking what this book symbolized & thats what i mean by it wasent sucessful in getting people to understand. & also that when M.T. anderson told them what it symbolized that people were a little shocked.

i dont think il be able to make mine as artful as his but il sure try.