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Scott Westerfeld’s dystopian book, Uglies, published in 2005, takes place in Uglyville and New Pretty Town. Tally Youngblood, who’s about to turn sixteen isn’t excited about getting her driver’s license like any other teenager usually is, but instead excited about finally being able to turn pretty. In Uglyville 16 year olds go through an operation to get a whole new look; a new face, new skin, basically a chance to become a whole new person. Although not everyone is positive they want to go through
Uglies-Pretties by Scott Westerfeld. Uglies is about a girl named Tally Youngblood, She is fifteen going on sixteen. In this town sweet sixteen actually means something. It means that you are finally old enough to get the surgery. They turn you from gross uglie to a beautiful pretty. Not only that but when you turn six teen all you need to do is have fun in a high tech world filled with booze, But before Tally turns pretty she is met by Shay. Shay does not want to turn pretty she wants to escape
A. Introduction- The Uglies is a book about a futuristic look of America. There are a lot of futuristic things like hover boards. But this society isn’t perfect like people think. The narrator in this book is tally Youngblood who will be on a journey to find her best friend. In this society everyone is obsessed with beauty. And the Uglies are the people between the ages of 12 and 16 they live in a remote community far from the beautiful people. In this community the Uglies anxiously wait for their
unbelievable risks, she made courageous life threaten decision, and she was determined to make it all work throughout the book. Tally was one of the few characters in the book who made you feel pain, love, betrayal and many more emotions at once. Tally Youngblood was the shining star of the book Uglies, and it was well earned.
Tsukiyama, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, and the play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, one can concur that society treats people differently based on their beauty, and one’s physical appearance can lead them to feeling ashamed, used, or disrespected. Tally Youngblood is a teenage girl, about to turn 16 in the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Since she has not yet had her sixteenth birthday, she is still considered ugly, because she has not yet had a cosmetic surgery making her pretty. This operation is designed
Huzij 1 Lori Huzij May 16 2014 Ms. Daoust ENG4U Theme Analysis: Uglies In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the story focuses on the theme of friendship and how it is necessary for happiness. Tally Youngblood is the central character whose tricks become much more serious when her intense relationships get her into a series of problems. Westerfeld allows his audience to truly connect with his story by using various elements involving setting, symbolism, and character relationships. Westerfeld also
Uglies by Scott Westerfeild is about a society of people who have a surgery to turn them into society’s idea of beautiful. These people are called pretties and the ones who don’t have the surgery are call uglies. Tally Youngblood is an ugly who agrees that everyone should be pretty even when they all look the same. She breaks into the Pretty’s mansion and crashes their party. On her way back she met another Ugly named Shay who is against everyone being the same. Shay leaves the day of her birthday
“When she awoke, the world was on Fire”. (Westerfeld 164) She saw fields on fire, and all that can comes to her head is to run. Fear is alive in her body and she has a different mindset. Tally wants going to be pretty, but to get there she has to risk her life, just to change her face. To get what you want in life one has to endure a lot. Tally, the main character in Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, is a regular citizen of Uglyville but as she is about to turn pretty she has to report a place that is
Uglies by Scott Westerfield is a young adult dystopian novel that deals with geopolitics, social and economic totalitarianism, and the spatial analysis of the dynamic of futuristic cities controlled by such a government. In the book, everyone receives dramatic surgery at the age of sixteen that makes them super-humanly beautiful, turning them into Pretties. This procedure was put into place to create peace amongst men by making everyone look the same and has no biological advantages, therefore they
‘Uglies’ is a science fiction, fantasy, adventure book written by Scott Westerfeld. Scott Westerfeld’s inspiration to writing Uglies was because his friend whose dentist asked him to consider getting cosmetic surgery. Uglies is set in a distant future where the technology is far more advanced. Uglies is a dystopian society where the world got wiped out by a horrible disaster and fell into ruins as the years went by. In Uglies a whole new civilization is created, and a law which the people in ‘Uglies’
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