Part 2 of Feed

The book continues to amaze me in so many ways. I had this thought that this book is very important for all teenagers to read. It is like the concept of "Big Brother" to my generation, who after being affected by the frightening vision of George Orwell in 1984 have an almost knee jerk reaction against being spied on and signs of excess government control, (albeit mostly a finger in the dike affect against that reality). This book's concept of the feed is the same type of warning of possible impending doom and gloom. This section is mostly about what it is like for our future teens to be off the drug of the feed. The two things that stuck me the most are the protagonist's observations of the painting in the hospital room, which at first seems stupid because it doesn't show anything happening now, nothing before and nothing about to happen. So what is it's purpose he asks? Why would anyone paint "a picture like that"? The is a sense that this could be a beginning, since he probably wouldn't even have noticed it at all with the feed on. The second thing is the way his father is depicted. He seems to be fairly ignorant, illiterate and without much personality or goals while on the feed, just like his son. I wonder what the truth about Violet's father is.....