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 to a non-tech world with burning trees and killing animals it is called the Smoke. If Tally want to become prettie she must go on an adventure to seek the Smoke and reveal its location to unearthly Dr. Cable. When in the Smoke she finds out that when you get the operation you do not just look pretty you also think pretty. …show more content…
Tally Youngblood is a sixteen year old girl who is brave, daring, and “pretty”. Tally is met with the threat from Dr.Cable of not being pretty. Tally will let doctors grind and stretch her bones the the perfect place (Uglies page 49). Tally will break her promise with shay and the smoke (Uglies page 126). Tally is risking her life just to give away the smoke, which is a place called home to many people (Uglies page 135-178). Tally is a selfish, determined, and remorseful 16 year old girl. She is remorseful because she has accidentally given away the secret area of the smoke which is home to many people (Uglies page 267). She is is determined because she is risking her life just to get what she wants (Uglies page 135-178). She is selfish because she want to completely ruin community (Uglies page 267). Overall Tally is a person who will risk her own life to get what she
Many factors contribute to the main storyline of Pretties by Scott Westerfeld. So far, Tally has attended a costume party with her best friends, received a large gash in her forehead after escaping from the party, and swallowed a white pill from a mysterious leather sack. The party and pill will be discussed and elaborated upon throughout this essay. The three most important objects in the story so far are Zane (Tally’s man friend), Champagne, and the key to open the lock on dorm room Valentino 317. One person who is crucial to the plot of the story so far is Zane.
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
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 16th birthday. At the age of 16 they go through a mandatory plastic surgery in order to live up to society’s standards. After they go through plastic surgery they will be known as pretties, and they will also live with all of the other gorgeous people.
Janie who continually finds her being defined by other people rather than by herself never feels loved, either by her parents or by anybody else. Her mother abandoned her shortly after giving birth to her. All she had was her grandmother, Nanny, who protected and looked after her when she was a child. But that was it. She was even unaware that she is black until, at age six, she saw a photograph of herself. Her Nanny who was enslaved most of her lifetime only told her that a woman can only be happy when she marries someone who can provide wealth, property, and security to his wife. Nanny knew nothing about love since she never experienced it. She regarded that matter as unnecessary for her as well as for Janie. And for that reason, when Janie was about to enter her womanhood in searching for that love, Nanny forced her to marry Mr. Logan Killicks, a much older man that can offer Janie the protection and security, plus a sixty-acre potato farm. Although Janie in her heart never approves what her Nanny forced her to do, she did it anyway. She convinced herself that by the time she became Mrs. Killick, she would get that love, which turned out to be wrong.
First, When Martha and Mrs. Peters arrive at the scene of the crime, they see that it is a very lonely place off the road. The house is in a hollow, with lone-some looking trees around it(1).Mr. Hale thinks that having a phone to communicate with rest of the world in such place will reduce loneliness although Mr. Wright does not want communication(2). Minnie lives a miserable life in this place. Martha cannot believe that this is what Minnie foster has turned into. She describes her rocker, and says: “ that rocker don’t look in the least like Minnie foster. The Minnie foster of twenty years before”(3). The rocker is a very old rocker with a faded color and few parts of it are missing. Also, Mrs. Hale thinks it is a torture for Minnie to wrestle with the stove year after year because that stove is in a very poor condition(8). These are some few examples that show how miserable Minnie is in such a lonely place.
She went to find him in New Pretty Town, but she was not allowed to be there. Because she was still an “ugly,” Tally had to sneak around in a mask to meet Peris. As she sneaks back out of the Mansion, where Peris lives, Tally sets off the fire alarms. She meets a new friend, who is also sneaking out of New Pretty Town. Her name is Shay, and they become friends as Shay teaches Tally how to ride a hoverboard.
In the essay "Disliking Books" the author Gerald Graff explains his disinterest in literature and what helped him overcome it. The author informs us that as a child no books interested him, regardless of genre, time period it was written or author. He states his main issue was an inability to connect with the books presented to him. Even in college the author was unable to find interest in literature, confessing he couldn't even finish reading books he was assigned. This issue persisted until he was told to read Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. At first he was unable to read it in any capacity; until he learned of the controversy over the ending. Graff suddenly took interest upon receiving a topic to think about while reading other than the book
A Good Man is Hard to Find The idea of what makes a "decent" individual is the subject of much open deliberation. Such is the situation in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" the main character, the grandma, battles to discover the characteristics of a decent individual both in others and in herself. O'Connor explores many scholarly components, for instance, flashback and portrayal to investigate what it intends to be a decent individual. It shows up as the main individual in the story is the individual the grandma gets to be through her battle with the Misfit. O'Connor appears to recommend that just through the clash can the "great" be found.
This month I read the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. This science fiction novel is about a girl named Tally Youngblood who is about to turn sixteen. In Tally’s world, turning sixteen means undergoing an extreme plastic surgery to become what her society thinks is a “pretty”. When Tally’s friend, Shay, runs away to a land where “uglies” are accepted, Tally has a big decision to make, become a pretty or be accepted for who she is.
She goes to a place called “Smoke”, somewhere people runaway to in order to avoid the operation. While she is there, she meets the couple who formed this secret community of ugly people. These people tell her about the lesions that the surgeons place in the brains of those receiving the operation. With this newfound knowledge, she is convinced she no longer wants to become pretty. Eventually, one of them is able to acquire the information needed to possibly reverse the damage done by the lesions. The only problem is, there is no willing subject to try the cure. Tally volunteers herself to turn pretty and try the cure. Essentially, sacrificing her life to try to fix the society that has become out of
Initially, the narrator introduced Tilly Evans as if she was the protagonist of the play, following he announced Tilly’s older sister Agnes, clarifying to the audience that the story is indeed about Agnes and not Tilly. Agnes, an average girl, wants to leave behind her hometown after the tragic death of her parents and her younger sister Tilly. Preparing to move in with her boyfriend Miles, Agnes begins packing up her sister’s room and discovers Tally’s Dungeons & Dragons journal. Consequently, after reading the
Holly Janquell is a runaway. Wendelin Van Draanan creates a twelve year old character in the story, Runaway, that is stubborn and naive enough to think she can live out in the streets alone, until she is eighteen.She has been in five foster homes for the past two years. She is in foster care because her mother dies of heroin overdose. In her current foster home, she is abused, locked in the laundry room for days without food, and gets in even more trouble if she tries to fight back. Ms.Leone, her schoolteacher, could never understand her, and in Holly’s opinion, probably does not care. No one knows what she is going through, because she never opens up to any one. Ms. Leone gives Holly a journal at school one day and tells her to write poetry and express her feelings. Holly is disgusted. But one day when she is sitting in the cold laundry room, and extremely bored, she pulls out the diary, and starts to write. When Holly can take no more of her current foster home, she runs, taking the journal with her. The journal entries in her journal, are all written as if she is talking to Ms.Leone, even though she will probably never see her again. Over the course of her journey, Holly learns to face her past through writing, and discovers a love for poetry. At some point in this book, Holly stops venting to Ms. Leone and starts talking to her, almost like an imaginary friend, and finally opens up to her.
Since Ma’s kidnapping, seven years prior, she has survived in the shed of her capturer’s backyard. This novel contains literary elements that are not only crucial to the story, but give significance as well. The point-of-view brings a powerful perspective for the audience, while the setting and atmosphere not only affect the characters but evokes emotion and gives the reader a mental picture of their lives, and the impacting theme along-side conflict, both internal and external, are shown throughout the novel. The author chooses to write the novel through the eyes of the main character and narrator, Jack. Jack’s perception of the world is confined to an eleven foot square room.
Corwin highlights the corrupted foster care system through detailed progression of the central character, Olivia. She is one of the most brilliant students in the novel and views school as a positive distraction from the daily physical abuse she encounters at home. In a sense, intelligence saves her. She manages to disconnect her emotions and use her intellect to excel in and out of school. With a molested mother and lack of father figure, Olivia becomes a ward of the county. Children who enter foster care often have been exposed to condition...
The book Uglies follows a 15 going on 16 year old girl, who is an Ugly and would do anything to become a Pretty sooner than her 16th birthday. All she’s ever had to look forward to was turning 16 and becoming pretty. She wishes for it even more because her best friend in the whole world just became pretty and she is separated from him, ready to do anything to be by his side again. Throughout the book we get to watch Tally grow and learn. She learns that being a Pretty is not all that it's cracked out to be, that