Tally Youngblood lives in a world where everyone is born ugly, then when they are sixteen, they have a surgery performed and turn pretty. Pretties have the luxury of living in New Pretty Town, a city full of parties, fun, and relaxation. When Tally breaks into New Pretty Town and almost gets caught, she hides in a bush to find another ugly, Shay. They go on adventures together almost every day until one day, Shay tells Tally she does not want to become pretty and informs her about a secret town where people who do not want to be pretty go, the Smoke. Tally refuses to go to the Smoke with her and goes to bed, but little does she know, the conversation she had with Shay has been monitored by Dr. Cable, someone who is apart of the special police. The next day, Shay is missing and Dr. Cable gives Tally a mission to find her, or else Tally can never become pretty. …show more content…
The author did a fantastic job illustrating the reader’s mind and giving a clear picture. For example, the book states, “The party towers were dark under the almost full moon, and the fireworks all shimmering hues of blue, climbing so high that they exploded in silence.”(51). The reader can vividly depict and picture the scene just from this
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
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
What impressed me most about the book was the incredible detail he used to describe people, places, events, and things. As I said, some people may find all this detail to be tedious. I however think that it was important to have such details to paint an accurate picture of ancient Rome.
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 ...
Metaphors and Similes are often used in this story, so the reader has a better image of the setting, this is something, and I find Connell did incredibly well, for instance when he refers to the darkness of the night like moist black velvet, the sea was as flat as a plate-glass and it was like trying to see through a blanket.
Tally Youngblood is all alone because she's still an ugly and her best friend Peris has already been turned pretty. So she busts out of the ugly dorm and breaks into New Pretty Town. Tally and Peris used to do this all the time to watch the stupid new pretties at their stupid parties; they would take an old bridge that's not connected to the security system. But Tally is going to break further into New Pretty Town because she wants to talk to Peris, who is supposed to be her best friend forever. She has the scar on her hand to prove it, from that time they scarred their hands together.
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.
For example you can really get a vivid image when Paterson describes Kinshi after he is captured by the patrol, “Just behind isako stood-yes, Jiro was sure, it must be Kinsh, though his posture seemed peculiarly humble for Kinshi. His head was bowed, and a large woven hat, such as the samurai wore for disguise in the pleasure district, covered his features.” (163). This passage is a perfect example of the descriptive detailed write that was used by Paterson in The Master Puppeteer because in this sentence she used so many adjectives that the sentence came to life in my imagination. I think that this is one of paterson’s strengths in her writing, when there is a strength there is a weakness, her writing needed some more action it, I thought it was slow because it was so descriptive that the book would describe something for so long that I would get bored from reading it. There were also Japanese brush paintings throughout the book, this provided me with not only verbal description, but visual description gives the reader two descriptions to form an even more detailed description. Overall I thought that the brush paintings were a very smart way of getting the message through to a reader. I thought that the book was a bit boring but I learned a lot from it and that’s what matters, I would highly recommend reading this book if you want to learn more about Japanese life in the 1800’s, or
The writer uses imagery, because he wants to let the readers into his mind. By describing the scene for the readers, makes the readers fell like they were there. Therefore, it gives us a better ability to emphasize with him.
One of the most stunningly powerful features of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is the vivid imagery used hroughout the book. Berendt has a way of making everything he writes about come to life. The reader doesn't merely read about Savannah, he lives it. The characters that are represented in the book come to life as the book progresses. Their actions take form before the audience's eyes. The characters are not, however, the only things brought to life by Berendt's vivid style. Savannah itself becomes real to the reader. The detailed settings make the city more than just a background for the story. It is an integral part of the tale. All of these aspects come together to make Midnight less of a book and more of an experience.
One of the main symbols of the story is the setting. It takes place in a normal small town on a nice summer day. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blooming profusely and the grass was richly green." (Jackson 347).This tricks the reader into a disturbingly unaware state,
In "The Mask of the Red Death," Edgar Allen Poe has the ability to evoke imagery and texualize the reader through the "extensive use of detail" (Faris 169). By doing so, I believe that Poe achieves textualization of the reader because we as human tend to use our imagination to help us see things that are there when they are described to us in great detail to us. By using this ability, it seems as though we are a part of the book and not just reading it. In the following passage, Poe describes the rooms that are in Prince Prospero's abbey:
One of the first things the strong descriptions makes stick out is the way he contrasts the outdoors with the indoors. “Outside, the fire-red, gas-blue, ghost-green signs shone smokily through the tranquil rain.” (Fitzgerald, 2012, p. 676) the colors that he uses to describe the neon signs that are glowing in the night paint a picture of a foggy, chilly night with lonely streets. A few paragraphs ahead Charlie meets with Lincoln and Marion to pick up his daughter, Honoria. The speaker goes on to describe the setting of the room, “The room was warm and comfortably American. The three children moved intimately about, playing through the yellow oblongs that led to other rooms; the cheer of six o’ clock spoke in the eager smacks of the fire and the sounds of French activity in the kitchen.” (Fitzgerald, 2012, p. 677). In the room there is a small gather of people, children playing, and people preparing a meal in the kitchen. The color yellow is used to describe the walls which immediately gives it a warm, welcoming feeling. This assumption is continued when the sounds of the fire are described. The audience will soon notice that Fitzgerald is using the outdoors as symbolism for sadness, despair, loneliness, and danger. We are led to believe that the reason for this is because Charlie locked his wife, Helen, out in a snow storm after an escalated fight. The indoors is thought to be more of a safe haven for
When a reader becomes absorbed in a text, he or she is living each moment of the story as if the world, events, and characters are real; and in the reader’s mind, they are. Reading can be an escape, and a distraction, to take people away from the troubles of this Earth into an adventure of another world that is not their own. Lewis Carroll does an excellent job of this, especially in his descriptions. For example, he has an outstanding description of the Jabberwock, “with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!” This creature is a terrifying sight that strikes fear into all those that look up on it. Carroll makes the danger quite clear in order to show the bravery that went into the hero’s actions when he slays
This effectively appeals to the reader's emotions because the author not only creates an image in the reader's mind, but also allows them to feel apart of the event by using the five senses. For instance, Rand describes the color of the rocket and the fire it pushed out when launching by using effective adjectives, which allows the reader to picture the event. While she is describing the event, she also states how she felt and what the atmosphere was like, so the reader is able to understand what it would have felt like to stand in the crowd and gaze up at the