Question: Overall, what kind of a feeling did you have after reading a few paragraphs of this work? What character's did you dislike and why?
I chose
to read Feed because everyone that I has read it has said that
it is amazing and a must read. I read the first few chapters and it was
interesting. In all honesty, I couldn't get into the first few pages of the
story. I found myself annoyed with the character's and the world they lived in,
which I think is the feeling the author wanted the reader to feel. The way in
which the characters spoke annoyed me a lot because of the overuse of 'like'
and their words/slang was so different. I know this is suppose to reflect our current
society and I could visualize these characters reflecting certain types of
people who exist in today’s society. Even though as a reader I was annoyed, I
can also appreciate how the author uses those annoyances and over exaggerations
to highlight the similarities in today's society. I really disliked all the
characters, but I am intrigued by the girl they just met because she seems to
be different from them as well as the starting off point for the rest of the novel.
I know this book will get better especially because everyone talks about the
end and how they cried so I am excited to get through the rest of it and see
where the story goes.
You raise an interesting question--do we have to like the characters in order to enjoy reading a particular text? I could never finish Game of Thrones--I know, I know I read it for the same reason--everyone told me . . . blah, blah, blah. But I couldn't get into it and let it go. But I loved Gone Girl and both of those characters were despicable--I LOVED how vicious she was. So I guess I can go either way on this. Feed reminds me of 1984 and newspeak--would you frontload the language with students before reading? Or since their own language is reminiscent, would you just immerse them in it naturally?
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