HW 15 - ABCDEF - Treasure Hunting for Julie

Dear Julie,

I appreciate the way you wrote about finding Feed more interesting when you realized it was an allegory. I like your honesty in saying that at first you were just reading it to get through it, but then it started saying something to you.

Your major point seems to be that if we get more and more stuck in a digital world, we could end up like the society in Feed. I also like your use of the example of the artificial air factories that mean that trees aren't needed for oxygen.

I think the look on our faces when we were making videos demonstrated the cluelessness you predict we will have if with even more digital devices and technology in our lives.

One thing I think you could do if you were going to write more about this book is to talk about how the corporations are running everything because they make the digital devices. They are getting rich from the sales from all their brainwash marketing, and the only people left to challenge them are the poor people like Violet, whose father couldn't afford a feed until she was older and then only a cheap one. The trouble is the cheap ones can kill you.

I think you are right about this book predicting environmental disaster. As we know, most corporations have to be hammered before they will change their ways and make things that aren't terrible for the environment. Hard to believe that people in New York City are still driving SUVs and vans and mini-trucks all over this city.

As you suggest, this book should make us think about not only our overusing digital devices but also about what we are not doing now to create a better environment. Good job.

Devin