End of Feed

      I think the book definitely picked up at the end. I really liked he book and definitely recommend it to read just for enjoyment. It makes you think more critically about America, just because America is supposed to be the most wealthiest country in the world. And our technology advancements are always improving. It also makes you think critically about yourself as well just because we don't realize how much we use technology everyday. 

         As far as comparing Feed to Eleanor and Park, I really think it relates through poverty. Poverty as far as social status and what that could do to teenagers in a controlled society. In Eleanor and Park, social status played a major issue in he book because Eleanor was bullied in school everyday, by peers as well as her stepdad. and in Feed, if you didn't have a Feed you would be financially unstable and you couldn't get any jobs. So as far as using a poverty lens they definitely relate through social status.

       There were also many interesting  parts of the book that made you think more about human life and how people are apart of a collective conspiracy in a way. But people are blind to it. That's an idea always tinkers with me. 

Feed #2

        I am so appalled by what's been going on in the book so far. As I continue to read, apart of me wants to continue and finish the book but the other half just wants to never pick up the book again. It's has become more interestingly disgusting and I want to read it with my eyes closed. Reading about lesions and how the cuts and gashes and sores on your body is perfectly fine in Feed does make you want to skip over that part. And the Feed is so controlling as well as convincing that people think of it as a trend. One part of the book, where Quendys walks into the party with her fashionable lesions all over her body somehow excited me. Because I was going to think maybe someone was going to reject her. But everyone embraced how cuts and sores. Marty even commented and said she was hot. 
       In comparison to America today, we do have customs like plastic surgery, getting braces, outrages fashion trends that people do give into. Each of these idea like braces for example, some cultures would never think of putting very tight metal brackets on your teeth to get them straight, and in turn, be more attractive to society. America is socially controlled by the media as well as social and political figures. Just like the Feed is doing to their society. 

Feed #1

     Feed by M.T Anderson is really interesting. When I began to read it, I questioned our tech in the world today and how controlling it is, in comparison to the feed. Anderson narrates the testify form the first person point of view. He is a teenage boy in a th future society. Everyone in his environment seems to have these chips implanted in their heads that reads their behavior and and has some type of output or suggestion. In other words, like a reaction. It's very interesting to use these words because when you think about it, it does not sound human at all but more android and programmed.
     
      This guy meets a girl, named Violet and they have a spark. I noticed that every character that I have come into contact with is the same, expect for Violet. They are all the same down to the vocabulary and their dialect. The word "like" came up very much. Surprisingly, in our society today we have a common dialect in our generation as well.
     
         In comparison to the plot of this story, our generation and as our years progress we all share one things that advances all the time across the world: technology. Technology is everywhere and is growing rapidly. To the phone the can now be submerged in water and be completely fine, to how we learn (computers, televisions, internet), we all share that commonality with one another. And as time progresses and tech progresses, more and more people are being pulled in and seeming to be hypnotized by the screens of phones and computers sets.

Eleanor and Park #3

     Eleanor and Park was such an interesting book. I didn't expect the end to be so, sort of, dead. It seem like through the book the had built up so much detail and so much events for her to just leave at the end of the book. I love the beginning and middle but not the end. I feel liked the end was more tragic, more tragic then her just moving to another state (that Park clearly has the address to and has driven there himself) it would've been a lot better. I say this because the ending was so typical. I could guess what was going to happen next after she had ran away. I don't want to say the book was a disappointment but it certainly was no surprise either. The author created so much detail and tension between the two characters as well as the reader to just say at the end of the book, she had to move away.
       I like the ending as far as what happened though. She moved away to her Uncles so that she can be safe from her stepdad. I also felt like this was empowering for readers who went through something in parallel and they finally want to do something about it. I'm glad that this book was published. I also admire how the author included reality for the reader. He included detail on what he wanted the reader to feel. And he did that very well. Although, I feel like ending should have been different, it was safe. As in, the reader felt comfortable with it.

 I'm starting to believe the characters, Eleanor and Park are very odd. Not in a demeaning manner but in a interesting manner. I always get excited once I find out something new. And the story is always seeming to take turns, like when Park put the eyeliner back on. Eyeliner or any kind of makeup generally has a feminine connotation to it and the idea that you think of is female when you see makeup. So that was shocking to me.

In addition to this, I really admire how the author incorporate how the two think. As in, as soon as something takes place you know what's each other is thinking. You know everything.

Eleanor and Park

        I can't stop reading this book! As I began to read Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, I notice myself being pulled in by its unpopular cast. Usually in love stories, you have two characters usually having multiple qualities in common from the start. But in Eleanor and Park there a multiple characteristics of the two that are completely opposite. For example, race, class and culture. I believe that is what pulled me in. I found myself reading beyond the assigned chapters. As I continued to read, I noticed that some of the actions displayed by Eleanor and Park I had done in grade school. I found it so funny and just really enjoyed reading the text. I always wanted to know more about Eleanor and Park and what was new.
So, in the first few chapter you get to know each other characters, but not in your typical description-of-character way. You get to know the character as if you were in the book. You figure out what they like, what their intresters are, how they think. Soon after character introduction, tension begins to rise between the two chracters, Eleanor and Park. A familiar and interesting tension most of us can relate to; affection. From then, there rising affection between the two began to grow stronger and stronger on each bus ride. It's very intriguing because it isn't your typical love story. I can absolutely agree with New York Times on "Eleanor and Park" describing it to be "...a beautiful, haunting love story."