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 * You need to have read Part One and Part Two by Thursday.**



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 * The Story of Stuff**

//For your first literature circles you will create a general overview of your novel. On this home page please create the following. Remember be creative, use color, images and sound!// 1. Setting- time, place, mood, and environment 2. Character List- make sure to list each main character and include a brief description and quote from the character


 * Setting **
 * Time- **future, possibly 2200s because on page 65, Violet tells Titus that languages that we know as normal haven’t been used in a long time.
 * Place- **The moon and earth, more specifically it takes place in night clubs and the hospital on the moon.
 * Environment -** Very high-tech, futuristic. Very colorful in terms of Feed Broadcasting and night clubs but otherwise very modern and new.
 * Mood- **Very relaxed, chilled and laid-back. Sometimes very fun and exciting but other times very bored and neutral about what’s happening.


 * Main Characters: **
 * Titus**- first person, you can see what he is thinking, he calls himself handsome, he is in college, he likes Violet- a girl he met on the moon, he thinks highly of himself, he thinks he cannot have fun without the feed, he is different than all his friends, talks in future-slang language. “I stood there wondering what it is that made her so beautiful… Her spine. Maybe it was her spine. Maybe it wasn’t her face. Her spine was, I didn’t know the word. Her spine was like…? The feed suggested ‘supple’”
 * Violet-** shy, low-tech, smart, able to write, quiet, calm, at ease, unique, doesn’t follow the current trends, doesn’t use the current slang, she tries to keep the topic of conversation away from talking about the feed, alone, according to the guys- she’s beautiful. “She was wearing a dress of gray wool. It wasn’t plastic, and the light didn’t reflect off it. Wool. Gray wool. Black stockings.


 * Questions:**


 * 1) Our world is starting to change, and the media is bombarding the people. Young people, like us, are targeted and advertisements are in our faces in most moments of the day whether its commercials on television, posters on the streets or ads on the internet. Our media has not gone to the extent to which it has in Titus’ world, but soon will. In Feed, the characters get ads based on what they want, where they are and what they are thinking of. Their mind s are full of commercials that are not necessarily always wanted, and then can be very annoying and stressful at times.
 * 2.** The corporations are the people that control the feed. Titus’s friends are convinced that the corporations control everything, even the jobs you have. They believe this because the feeds are in their brains. If the corporations control the feed, then technically, they also control what they thinks, and what they like, because they can post it on the feed. It means that the corporations are the head of society- even if there is a president, it’s the corporations that really control the people, because they control what they think.
 * 3**. This is when Violet and Titus are sitting in the hospital without the feed. They are sitting quietly, because the feed has been powered off in their brains, and they aren’t talking because there is no feednet. It is good, because they don’t have the constant confusion of the feed in their brains.
 * 4**. Even in the present world today, the youth uses their own dialect that is often grammatically incorrect and doesn’t make sense to adults or other people. In Feed, the use of metaphors and figurative language is something the “old” people such as grown-ups and seniors use. Titus’s friends and generation assume they’re too cool for correct language.

=__**Themes**__=
 * 1**.__The need to conform makes it difficult to be different__-- in the world of feed, everyone has the feed. People without the feed are looked down upon and are outsiders. Those people feel the need to get the feed because of this. Once they get the it, it makes it hard to think differently than everyone else.
 * 2**. __What you think is helping you could be blinding you__-- Violet knows a lot about what is going on in the world, and why they have to live in bubbles above the ground because she was raised without the feed, and her dad teaches her about things that are not taught to the people that have the feed. The feed was meant to help people, but instead is blinding them from what is really going on in the world.
 * 3**. __If you don't question, it'll be too late to resist__-- Titus and his generation can't even call themselves human anymore; they're all controlled by the Feeds..They can't write, talk proper English or even think for themselves. All of them are the same and they are gradually destroying everything that makes them unique or even people. Eventually, the whole world will be swallowed up by the Feed and humans will all be under its control. Only 73% of Americans have Feeds, though and that 27% are the ones who can make a difference. Those 27% are the only ones that "resist the feed" and the only ones left that could actually be considered people. In years to come, that number will become smaller and smaller until no one in America doesn't have a chip implanted in the back their heads. They should act now, before they have no more power or else there is no more hope.


 * For your homework you will need to answer the following questions.**