A giant flying machine from the Rusty Era which causes a big windstorm with its spinning disk appears. It hovers around and then leaves without finding Tally in the river. Unfortunately, the flying machine does accidentally rip up Tally's sleeping bag. But the board is fine, so Tally rides one more night until she reaches a branch in the river. Which branch to take? Shay's note says to "take the side you despise" and Tally remembers that day when Tally and Shay talked about face options in "Facing the Future." And Tally despises the right side of her face, so she takes the right branch of the river. Good choice, because by the end of that night, Tally finds herself in a landscape full of white flowers. And the next part of Shay's clue is …show more content…
Her hands are all raw and blistery, so it's about time. David takes Tally to see a collapsed tunnel and all the railroad tracks buried under there. The boulders seem pretty solid, but Tally thinks about how a small shift would bring down all that weight on them—which sounds (to her) a lot like Dr. Cable and the city (crushing her). David brought her here because he can tell that she's taking this seriously. Some other runaways just think about this like a fun adventure, like camping out for a while. But for David, this place is home—he was born here, since his parents were runaways. And so Tally thinks that she can't call Dr. Cable because that would destroy David's …show more content…
She feels like the orchid—a destructive weed that ruins everything. But David wants to talk to her about how special he thinks she is. See, she's the first runaway to come all by herself, which gives her 100 bravery points, because she left everything she knew behind. David is also impressed that Tally did this all just out of friendship for Shay; and David trusts Tally because of how happy she was to see Shay when they met again. All this nice talk makes Tally feel something for David that she never felt for an ugly before. He even begins to look a little pretty to her. And Tally is so serious about the Smoke—unlike Shay—that David wants her to meet his parents and learn. Chapter 30- The Secret So David takes Tally to his parents' cabin, which is outside of the Smoke. David calls his parents "mom" and "dad," which is weird. ( Tally calls her parents by their names.) Also, weirdly, David looks like his parents. In the city, all those bizarre family traits get removed—like, no one has really big ears or a big nose or frizzy hair. David's parents Maddy and Az are doctors who have a secret. And they're a little annoyed at David because he brought Tally here and they don't like to tell their secret. Chapter 31- Pretty
First, David’s mother gave him enough courage to keep hope his father would be all right after the Nazis arrested him. Because their own house was no longer safe from Nazi invasion, David’s family was staying with friends. However, Nazis burst into the house they were staying in on...
But when she almost gets in trouble by breaking into New Pretty Town. There she meets Shay, an ugly who is a little more hard headed. Shay and Tally argue a lot about whether the pretty surgery is a good thing. Finally, Shay tells Tally about a hidden town in the wilderness that she plans to go live. This place is where no one is pretty, but Tally refused to go with her. But unfortunately she's been watched by Dr. Cable of the secret police. Dr. Cable threatening Tally into going to find this hidden town and told if she doesn't help find this place, she will never become a pretty. Tally then agrees and goes on a dangerous journey to find the Smoke. It takes her a while to get there, but she was very happy to find Shay. But she was even happier to meet David, a boy who was born in the wilderness and the son of the Maddy and Az who was the smoke leaders and also his mother and father. Tally was supposed to call Dr. Cable when she arrived, but she begins to like the Smoke. David teaches her some somethings that that she had never learn when she was in Uglyville and also introduce Tally to his parents who tell her that the pretty surgery that many people are getting includes a side order of
Her realization that she is not alone in her oppression brings her a sense of freedom. It validates her emerging thoughts of wanting to rise up and shine a light on injustice. Her worries about not wanting to grow up because of the harsh life that awaits her is a common thought among others besides the people in her community. As she makes friends with other Indians in other communities she realizes the common bonds they share, even down to the most basic such as what they eat, which comforts her and allows her to empathize with them.
Tally- She is the main character in this book she has to choose to betray her friends or become a pretty. She isn’t so sure of what she wants. When Tally starts to talk more with Shay she starts to reconsider what normal really is. In the first part of the book she want to become a pretty and have a normal life like everyone else. But after a while she starts to change her mind and she is trying to avoid have plastic surgery. She is a really adventurous person and like to have a lot of fun. She falls in love with David and they save the smokes together. At the end she risks her life and becomes a pretty to become and experiment to David’s moms to test a cure to the brain lesions created when they go ...
At first, David cares that his mother treats him badly. After awhile, he doesn’t care and becomes apathetic.
1. In the book, the father tries to help the son in the beginning but then throughout the book he stops trying to help and listens to the mother. If I had been in this same situation, I would have helped get the child away from his mother because nobody should have to live like that. The father was tired of having to watch his son get abused so eventually he just left and didn’t do anything. David thought that his father would help him but he did not.
...out what is for her and how she wants to live. So in the end, she is where she wants to be. Janie pulls in the horizon that she has spent her whole life searching for. She calls her soul to come in and see. Where once her soul was separate from her, it is now a part of her. Janie grew throughout the novel into a strong and independent woman. Although Janie cared for Tea Cake, she needed to kill him in order to keep him from suffering. Janie shows the reader that she has lived her life fully the way she wanted too and is now able to die having no regrets in life. Although Janie did recognize that most men were obsessed with power and thrived for complete control, she did discover a man who helped push her to her goals. Tea Cake helped Janie a lot, but he made sure she did not rely on him because from the moment they met, he knew how strong of a woman Janie truly was.
Throughout the novel the characters are put in these situations which force them to obtain information about the people they thought they knew. The center of finding out who everyone is was brought into play through the death of Marie. The story is told by David, only twelve years old, who sees his family an community in a different light for who they truly are under there cover. By doing his own little investigations, often times eavesdropping, David saw through the lies, secures and betrayals to find the truth.
reveals the struggle daisy must encounter of being a married woman who longs for another man.
...from one another and as a result, grew up with different values and senses for what was truly important in life and what was truly necessary to survive. Jane emerged from a strict, abusive upbringing, into a well-rounded, strong-minded, responsible, and dedicated adult who triumphed in the end. Lily suffered a fate that she almost seemed destined for. Lily shares her name with a common flower. This fact may contain an aspect of symbolism in that like a dying flower, Lily’s character gradually begins to “wilt” as
When his parents divorced, his father was the one to move out of the house. When Jeff was 18, Joyce took David and left. Jeffrey was alone in the house with little food and a broken refrigerator until his father and his new wife found out about the situation and moved into the house.
Their father, Beck, left the family when the children were young, the oldest one being about thirteen. Pearl was a major perfectionist, as well as an abusive mother. Of course, this had an effect on her children. Her middle son, Ezra, was the favorite child of the family. He was always trying to pull the family together. One of his tactics was through a dinner- he loved to cook, so he always tried to make a nice dinner for his family, that way they could enjoy one meal together. However, the family never made it through a single meal. Cody, the oldest son, was extremely jealous of Ezra. Every single thing that went wrong in his life, he blamed on Ezra, even though most things had nothing to do with Ezra. This jealously continued well into his adult life, to the point where he believed that even his wife preferred Ezra over himself. Jenny, the only daughter, remained afraid of her mother well into adulthood. She found herself following in her mother's footsteps, by mistreating her
At the end of “Shaman” mother and daughter gain a better understanding of each other. Brave Orchid accepted the fact that her daughter visited her only once a year because she needed her distance. Brave Orchid turned off the lights to let her daughter sleep and said, “‘You must go, Little Dog’”(108). This obviously touched Kingston emotionally. The more mature Kingston now realizes that her mother loves her, although she never really says it. “The world is somehow lighter. She has not called me that endearment for years-a name to fool the gods”(109).
The drifter feigns great interest in Elisa’s chrysanthemums and asks her many questions about them. He tells her he knows a lady who said to him "if you ever come across some nice chrysanthemums I wish you’d try to get me a few seeds" (paragraph 56).
Wealthy, inventive bachelor Colin endeavors to find a cure for his lover Chloe after she's diagnosed with an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.