Analysis Of Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

Would you like to live in a world where you are born ugly and forced to transform pretty by age 16 and you have no say? Well the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is about a girl named Tally who meets Shay, a teenager just like her, that decides not to turn pretty and escape to a city called “The Smoke.” This gets Tally in trouble as she is threatened by a doctor in Special Circumstances, named Dr. Cable, that she will stay ugly for life if she doesn't find and return her friend, along with other people that escape too. I enjoyed this book very much because I felt that it kept me interested while reading instead of boring me. Throughout the book the main characters showed a variety of different character traits. Also some scenes demonstrate when the character is applying values either positive or negative.

“Pretties” is the second book in the “Uglies” series written by Scott Westerfeld. The book starts back off when Tally, the main character, has just had the operation to turn pretty. She has a party to go to and must pick out her costume. She decided to go as a Smokie because she had to look “Bubbly” enough to get into the Crims. The Crims where a clique in New Pretty Town, they were the kids who pulled tricks and pulled stunts. After her and Shay, Shay is her best friend, pick out their costumes they go to the party. At the party Tally saw someone who she thought she recognized. The person she saw was Croy from the Smoke. He gave her instructions to follow. After her encounter she goes back to the party and the leader Zane, accepts her into

The book is a dystopian story where everybody is born and raised to one belief. The thought is that everyone must grow and be pretty on their 16th birthday. But Tally Youngblood, the main character of Uglies, gets her dreams of being beautiful destroyed when she learns the truth about what exactly goes down in that operating room.

In the article, “Appearances Are Destructive” by Mark Mathabane argues about how students in school do not focus on learning anymore, but mostly focus on their outfits. He agrees that by providing dress codes will be an effective way to maintain safety in schools. According to Mathabane, dress codes is a solution for students to get on track on their studies, but rather it will not be against freedom. In addition to that, Mathabane claims, that girls pay a lot of attention to their clothing because it gives them respect, to look more attractive, and they feel, they look cool. Mathabane disagree that outfits should be the primary goal for many students, instead of achieving academic success; therefore, dress code will be a solution to have

There is a cliché quote that people say, “Beauty is in the eye of beholder.” But in the essay “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” (1998) Dave Barry argues about how women who spend countless hours on their so called “beauty” whereas men seem not to care. Barry uses juxtaposition and exaggeration to poke fun at men and women behavior and shed light on the harm that the beauty industry is doing. When Barry argues his point of his essay he addresses both genders, but more specifically teenage to middle age men and women, but he writes about it in a humorous and light-hearted manner.

It shows how Tally's actions were affected by the governmental control, making her "playing commando" and "running around ruins", as how Shay describes it. This quote shows how Tally's change connects to governmental control by highlighting how society in "Uglies" manipulates her actions in order for authorities to maintain power and conformity. Tally's internal conflict and moral problems reflect the impact of governmental control on her character development in the novel. As Tally comes across many obstacles with loyalty and personal values, she confronts the difficulty of living in a society that is being watched at all times. One of the biggest internal conflicts that Tally has majorly struggled with is loyalty.

Uglies takes place In the future, where it is summer. The sun is fading; the deep blue gaps of night are peering through like an ocean, bottomless and cold. Every summer was beautiful and enjoying, up to this one. No wonder it couldn’t be beautiful, when you lose a best friend, nothing is. Tally Youngblood was still an ugly. Three months and two days until she finally turns sixteen years old, goes off for the surgery, and becomes a pretty like her friend Peris. Since Tally isn’t a very patient girl, she decides to sneak out and go to the New Pretty Town and see Peris just for a little while. Tally is a girl that loves pulling tricks and pranks. Even at the very beginning of the book, Tally is braking in to the New Pretty Town, and as we get to know, it isn’t her first time. She used to do it with Peris as well. When Shay and she aren’t arguing over the pretty surgery, they are breaking the law, pulling some tricks on younger children, and goofing around. Tally loves causing trouble, even though sometimes, the intensions aren’t like that. Also, Tally is a very brave sixteen -year old. Even though she has caused much trouble, especially to smokies, Tally is willing to clean up the mess and try to fix everything.

As I was reading The Beauty Bias, by Deborah L. Rhodes, I came across a statistic that perplexed me, saying the total “annual global investment in grooming” comes to $115 billion (Rhodes, pg. 32). This shocking fact provokes a worrisome question: Why do we, humans, spend so much time, money, and thought on our appearance? As a complex question, there are several equally complex answers. However, the simple answer is that everyone else invests their time and thought into your outer shell, eliciting effort from you to improve what they study - your external image. The concern placed on one’s fashion choice or natural features by society takes away from larger, more pressing issues such as the declining economy, or feeding third-world countries.

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 is left to figure out how to survive without anyone to talk to. A wait of three months until Tally finally would get the surgery to become pretty. Throughout this wait, Tally meets a girl named Shay while sneaking out to New Pretty Town, where

Tiny Pretty Thing is the most fuck up book I’ve ever read in a while. It’s Black Swan Meets Mean Girls.

Throughout the short story ¨The Long Rain” by Ray Bradbury, the author depicted the ideas of beauty vs. ugliness in multiple means. On the planet Venus, in which the rocket crashed, Sun Domes are set up by people from Earth to make the environment habitable. Venus has never ending rain making the planet seem ugly and gloomy. Sun Domes are beautiful inside with no rain and a happy environment. As more and more days passed of walking through the never ending rain the crew of the rocket that crashed slowly lost more and more of their sanity. Two men in the crew died of their insanity, but the lieutenant never lost his sanity, for he held hope for finding the Sun Domes on the planet. Hope and discouragement are one of the ways he showed beauty

In the novel Uglies, Special Circumstances shows they are more responsible for hegemonic conditions due to the resources they abused and how the educational system manipulates people. When Tally visited David parents they explain how they were surgeons. Maddie and Az did not like how the system would insert lesions into people's brains so they did some research to know more about how pretty and ugly minds were different. Since they noticed it would happen after the operation Maddie had told Tally that, " But not long after our discovery, Special Circumstances paid a visit. They took our data and told us not to look any further or we'd lose our licenses (pg.253)".

How would someone feel if they have known someone their entire life and all of a sudden they turn their back on them? Tally Youngblood managed to hurt Shay, Corey, and Paris’s feelings in the book, Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld. Tally struggles to decide what to do when faced with difficult decisions and this causes her to have a weaker relationship with her friends. Being betrayed is what many characters experience throughout Uglies.

In a period of time when beauty is defined by models, success by wealth, and fame by the amount of followers you have on social media, Lizzie Velasquez asks the question, “How do you define yourself?”1 Formerly labelled “The World’s Ugliest Woman,” Velasquez decided to use “…the people who were telling [her] that [she] couldn’t do this to motivate [her],”2 and “…their negativity to light [her] fire to keep going.” 3 TEDx is a program of self-organised events that bring people together to spark deep discussion and connection through a live speaker. In Velasquez’s speech, she uses potent anecdotes of living with her rare syndrome, Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome, and battle with bullying, to invite the audience to view egalitarianism and their self-worth allowing the link between contemporary Australian society and the idea of mateship.

DeVito mentions six principles of nonverbal communication. The first principle states that nonverbal messages interact with verbal messages. To me, this means that nonverbal messages can have a series of effects on verbal messages. In the Naked Face article, Gladwell stated “When someone says “I love you,” we look into that person’s eyes to judge his or her sincerity.” If someone is telling me that they love me but their eyes and body language so not seem sincere, I’m going to assume that their nonverbal actions are contradicting their verbal communication.