December book blog 2-Feed

SUMMARY

The boy’s name is Titus.  He went to the moon with his friends “to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck. “  But then he saw her, drinking her juice.  She was beautiful.  The girl’s name was Violet.  She went to the nightclub with Titus and his friends.  There a man touches them and they all start to say We enter a time of calamity!  “We’re going to have to shut you off now.  We’re going to have to shut you off,” says one of the policemen that have come.  The world goes black.  They all awake in a hospital, with no feed.  Their feeds get repaired and Titus and Violet start to go out.  She was different; she read depressing stuff, she thought about the downfall of society, and her vocabulary was of a high level.  But all she wanted was to be normal like everyone and live life to the fullest.  She and Titus resist the feed and have fun doing it.  Titus learns that Violet is dying, that her feed didn’t get fully repaired since it was implanted at a later age.  Nobody will try to help her get better because no one will accept her to get help since her feed is so “scattered;” a result of resisting the feed.  When it gets really bad, she gets depressing to be around.  She sends Titus memories, messages, and a bucket list.  They go to the mountains and Titus backs off, because Violet wants to take the relationship far too early, like showing up at the hotel and calling themselves Mr. and Mrs. Smith.  They have a huge fight and break up.  Titus starts to go back out with his ex-girlfriend.  A few months later Titus finds out Violet is on her deathbed.  He goes to visit her and she’s completely immobilized.  Her dad says he blames everything on Titus.  Titus leaves and comes back another day.  He looks at Violet, holds her hand, and with tears streaming down his face he tells her the “story” of them.  He brings her hand to his lips, and “on a screen, her heart was barely beating.”