. MT Anderson’s dystopian young adult novel Feed issues a blistering satire of the dishonest, manipulative aspects of American consumer culture. Through the implantation of a wireless internet-access microchip, young people and most adults are bombarded with corporately sponsored commercials, songs, and feedcasts that function much like banner ads or pop-up advertisements. Write an essay in which you analyze the manipulative effects of the commercial rhetoric that largely determines the behavior and spending patterns of Titus, the novel’s male protagonist, and his teenage friends. Find specific examples in the novel of the “hyped up” commercial language produced by the culture industry that work to manipulate and exploit consumers’ psychological wants, desires, even fears and insecurities. How does the world of advertising—as depicted in this novel—secure kids’ consent into dominant social practices of consumerism, so much so that there is very little critical resistance to the culture industry?