In Scott Westerfeld’s novel Uglies‚ a world ruled by beauty finds their world shaken when a group of young uglies challenge the status quo. All Tally Youngblood has ever wanted is to be pretty; unfortunately for her‚ when her friend Shay runs away‚ Tally is the only one who can find Shay. If Tally does not locate and betray her friend‚ she must face the ultimate consequence: to never be pretty. Westerfeld incorporates personal appearance into Uglies in an attempt to force the reader into acknowledging
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Karan Sitaram 7th period 8-30-13 Uglies In the novel Uglies‚ Tally Youngblood (ugly) feels she is ugly because society put that label on her. This book helped me in many ways one of them was not judging people just because they don’t compare to my standards. Before I had read this book whenever I saw what I thought was an unbalanced couple where the guy or girl was too pretty for the other. I would tell my brother that they don’t belong together because she’s too pretty for him‚ how did he
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Uglies Essay Imagine a world where there is segregation based on looks‚ and everyone can either get an operation at age 16 to become an imprisoned pretty or run away before the operation to stay a free ugly. What is better? Being a controlled pretty or a free ugly? Tally Youngblood has to make this decision in Scott Westerfeld’s novel‚ Uglies. In Tally’s futuristic society rejected uglies has an operation at age 16 to adapt perfect looks but in the mean time the patients receive brain lesions which
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Chelsea Dowding-Hopkins Year 9 – Mrs Graham INS essay Uglies by Scott Westerfield One of the main themes in Scott Westerfield’s text Uglies is the conflict teenagers have with where they stand in society and learning to respect and value themselves. Using examples from the text compare them with today’s world for teenagers. Word count: Date Due: Uglies illustrates many issues that young teenagers will go through in life. The reader has an insight of three main characters and their
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is these times that we neglect to see how great our lives already are. This is the theme of Scott Westerfeld’s novel‚ Uglies. Like all great writers‚ Scott Westerfeld supports the theme of his novel with symbolism that is hidden in every character and event. Uglies takes place in futuristic Northern California. In this story‚ society is divided into two main groups‚ the “Uglies” and the “Pretties”. These two groups are separated by a river that runs between their cities. The reader first meets
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I think that the book The Uglies is very similar to our generation now. In the book you are judged by your appearances‚ teens consider themselves awkward and ugly. They also think that the adults do not understand what they go through as kids‚ and everything is different from when they were that age. This is exactly how our generation is now. The book takes place in the future‚ they have hover boards‚ and their whole life is based around “the operation”‚ but besides all of that there isn’t a huge
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Ugly‚ Pretty‚ or Reality? Imagine a society of extreme beauty that anyone normal is considered ugly. Although the two classifications of‚ ugly and pretty are viewed as immensely different‚ they have one thing in common. Being in either one these categories causes not only domination of physical appearance‚ but also steals the identity of an individual. The only way out is sacrifice. Westerfield’s dystopian fiction novel‚ Uglies tells the story of an adolescent girl‚ Tally Youngblood‚ who is trapped
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There is no doubt that this book won’t be read 100 years from now. The book‚ “Uglies” By: Scott Westerfled is truly a great novel. This book determines that beauty is not all that proves you as a person. Beauty belongs to everyone‚ everywhere. In a world of extreme beauty‚ anyone normal is ugly. Tally must figure herself out before she undergoes surgery at the age of sixteen to become “pretty”: or what is so called pretty. Tally and Peris are the best of friends‚ but when Peris becomes pretty‚ Tally
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The message behind Scott Westerfeld’s novel ‘Uglies’ is that we should not focus on external beauty‚ rather look further into an individual’s personality. The novel demonstrates this message by exaggerating the effects of only focusing on external beauty through the Pretties‚ how they only care about having fun and how it lines up with our society. Uglies creates the idea of lesions in the brain to account for the way humans act when only focusing on external beauty‚ oblivious to the world around
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“The sky was the color of cat vomit” is the first sentence of the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. The hook sentence of Uglies already shows Tally’s pessimistic view of things. Uglies is set in the future because it is a dystopian book‚ also because it is a negative way of seeing the future. In this book characters are born looking “ugly” until their 16th birthday where they get mandatory plastic surgery. After the surgery they are called “pretty” and will live somewhere called New Pretty Land where
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