Feed Vs. The Island

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The Bad Future Over reliance on technology can be bad. Both of these stories have similar backgrounds. The book “Feed” by M.T. Anderson which is a sad novel about the love life between the main character Titus and the dystopian protagonist Violet. And the movie “The Island” directed by Michael Bay, it is an action drama film where the main character Lincoln6Echo is the dystopian protagonist. Both of the dystopian protagonists fight against the main conflict of the stories. They are both based on the theme over reliance on technology can be bad. The novel “Feed” by M.T. Anderson is a book based in a dystopia. The main character Titus falls in love with a smart girl named Violet who is the dystopian protagonist in this story. Violet realizes what the feed is doing and she says, “We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.” She is the only one who realizes this but she tells her friends and she tells Titus. Violet becomes very sick because her feed proficiency is low. Which means that her feed isn’t working it’s dying; it’s like an organ in your body and if it fails you basically die. She is brought to the hospital where they bring her feed up to 87 percent from 52 percent. But her proficiency is slowly going down to the point where she can no longer do anything and makes the reader assume that she dies. This part proves my theme of the book, which is over reliance on technology, can be bad because they relied so much on technology that it ended up killing Violet. If Violet didn’t have the feed she never would have died. “The Island” directed by Michael Bay is also a story based in a dystopia, the theme is, “you’ll do anything to survive.” The main character Lincoln6Echo, who is a clone of tom Lincoln created by

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