Uglies

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

Do you feel like living in a world where nobody is perfect? In Tally Youngblood’s world, everyone is ugly. When they turn 16, the uglies are turned into a pretty by an operation. Tally is a teenager who wants to be a pretty; however, there are many complications with Tally’s operation. Due to this, Tally has to face many choices which change her old perspectives. In Uglies, Tally’s character changes when she meets Dr. Cable, after David tells her about his secret, and when she is leaving the Smoke

need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” Westerfield’s dystopian novel, Uglies, takes place in the peculiar Rusty Ruins. Tally Youngblood, an Ugly has an amazing life until she turns sixteen, and the time has come for her to become a Pretty. Tally has been craving on becoming a Pretty for her entire life. Her best friend Peris is already a Pretty, but her other friend Shay wants to stay Ugly. Tally has to make a big decision that will change her life. She has two options: retrieve

fulfilled if we were smarter, or prettier, or more athletic. It 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

Retell This journal is based on a book called Uglies by Scott Westerfeild. In this book, Tally is in a society where when you turn 16 your whole entire life changes. In Tally’s world when your 16 you undergo a surgery that changes you from “ugly” to “pretty”, as the perfect person the society wants you to be. When you undergo this surgery you travel to the other part of the city where everyone is pretty and there are no obligations or responsibilities. Tally has 3 months until that day arrives. Tally’s

The Uglies Everything is not always as fantastic as it seems. The novel The Uglies frequently displays that not everything that looks amazing is amazing. The people in The Uglies all have cosmetic surgery to look biologically beautiful. Some of the citizens rebel and live in a city that they call “The Smoke”. They live there because they refuse to be turned pretty. The theme of The Uglies is something that looks good but may not necessarily be good; this is shown in the book because Tally wanted

beginning of the book Uglies, the main character Tally a almost a sixteen year old girl is a ugly waiting for her next birthday so she can get the operation and turn pretty. Tally had a wide nose, thin lips, too-high of a forehead and a frizzy tangled hair. Tally couldn't wait to see her friend Peris who just became an pretty because they were best friends. She sneaked out to Pretty Town where the Pretties lived to go find Peris. “She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission

Everyone has their own culture, whether they realize it or not. Some people have distinct cultures, but others struggle with the idea of having a specific culture and cannot figure theirs out. In the novel Uglies, Scott Westerfeld uses cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings to demonstrate the impacts and control Special Circumstances has on society, while Tally struggles to break away and fix the operation. In society the government is in charge and controls daily lives through culture

Westerfeld’s, the author of the book Uglies, purpose of writing the story is to teach us that no one needs to change in order to feel like they belong. Scott Westerfeld, I wonder how you came up with the world in which the characters live? I wonder if you were ever made fun of for being ugly? I wonder if you think our world will become this? As I read Uglies, I focused on the fact that the group who rebelled realized that they did not need to change to belong. As I read Uglies, I consider the topic of

Tally Youngblood is the main character in the book Uglies by Scott WESTFELD. Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. In just a few weeks she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty. As a pretty, she’ll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun. Tally’s new friend Shay isn’t sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world-and it