This quote from Feed, by M. T. Anderson, is when Violette is talking to Titus about the people who control the feed and says how they get people to buy certain products by watching them all the time. By doing this they figure out who they are and their personality types and from that they’re able to see what will catch their interest into buying. The feed is constantly streaming in their heads showing them deals based on the things they’ve seen them interested in or other things that they have purchased before. The majority of the society doesn’t see a problem with it because like the fact that they don’t have to put much effort into thinking about what they want to buy because the feed just finds it for them. They divide everyone up into a …show more content…
The control that the feed has over everyone causing them to conform allows these people to create society exactly how they want it without people seeing it as a bad thing. This idea that certain people have a control over the things we buy is also shown in our society. When you’re on the internet buying things or looking at things you may be interested in people can also see you searching for these things. After seeing what you’re interested in while you’re looking on other sites like Facebook ads will pop up that are related to what you were recently looking up and they do that as a way to grab your attention and get you to buy certain objects. Some people probably find it convenient because they didn’t have to look it up and it basically just came to them. Companies use this as an easy way for them to market and gets people to buy what they want them too. Similarly to how the feed is trying to make this society all simple and make everyone alike, in Fahrenheit 451 the government tried to do the same thing. Throughout this book people all conformed to the norms of society and never deviated from the norms because they were scared of getting in trouble. Out of fear of what would happen to them, they let