“To be yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting,” E.E. Cummings once said. Inspiring many, this quote can be easily related to the character Violet Durn in "Feed," by M.T. Anderson. In the book, Anderson reveals his vision of a terrifying future of our society. Every humans brain is wired with a mind dominating computer chip the feed. Instant messaging, entertainment programming, and advertisements dictate everyone’s lives since they were born. Although, many people considers her to be odd, or weird she refuses to change. Titus is forced to look beyond the feed by Violet and she shows him the mindboggling truth about the world and her malfunctioning feed. He goes through all her struggles with her, and Violets alarming vision of the truth opens Titus’s eyes. Because Violet stand in isolation in the society she uses her intelligence and inquisitive nature to resist the feed and share her obscene vision of the truth with Titus. Ultimately, Violet is the most knowledgeable and intelligent teenager of this innovative society. With or without the feed Violet is an intelligent human being. According to Webster’s Dictionary intelligence would be defined “as the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations.” Unlike anybody else Violet has the ability to understand the world around her, the real world not just the world of the feed. Violet is one of the few people that is not dependant on the feed for reading and writing. She learns to read and write before she gets the feed installed; most people get it installed immediately after they are born. Although, her feed is malfunctioning because she can read on her own Violet continues reading even as her feed continues to break down. Violet reads about any current events, the latest news, and things such as politics. Reading gives her the ability to comprehend and learn more about their society. From reading she is also acquiring a vivid vocabulary that exceeds the standards of their society. At one point in the story Coca-Cola was having a promotion where if you talk positively about the product you’d be awarded with a free Coke. Violet, Titus and his friends decide they will all g