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Tobin uses an allegory in Feed to show the parallels between Titus' life and our own. The reader can better connect with their own lives through learning about Titus' life and world where there is an overwhelming use of technology, to the point where they have the "feed" connected to themselves in their heads. This can be seen as a drastic view on how our lives are now and how they might turn out. I also feel that how the book ended was somewhat for the readers benefit. We get to finish the allegory for our selves, we put in our own opinions and views to finish the story because it could really go anyway.

I feel like many people are very similar to Titus and if the book had ended happy, the message would not have been the same. Titus would not have noticed his mistakes in life and would have learned nothing new about himself and the world he lives in. Violet was the one who taught him all this and because of her death he was able to accept the world and didn't continue to live his life the way he did before. If she had lived I feel like he would have gone on living the way everyone else lived would not have gotten a view on how life can really be.

"Art is not a Mirror with which to reflect the World. It is a Hammer with which to shape it." I feel like this quote is so true. Art is something that helps us shape our world. Though I feel like Feed is more of a mirror and perhaps somewhat of a hammer. Feed only showed us our own lives and did not really come up with any solutions to how we live our lives. But i feel that through that mirror readers will have the option of creating a hammer and using it to help redefine their lives and people around them. I would feel like I might want my art to do both. Not just mirror our world but to also help define it or help people shape their own lives. Though i do feel like mirror art is always the easiest, its easy to say what's wrong with something but an entirely different matter to have the courage to change it. Although with Feed, as a mirror is not all that bad because many people do not even notice how they are living their lives. Sometimes people need to understand what's wrong in their lives in order to change it.