How To Achieve Beauty In Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

In this day and age, society has built standards to how citizens should look, talk, wear, behave etc through social media, films, celebrities, friends and family. The youth has now taken place in this and now feel that if they did not meet society's standards, they aren’t beautiful or handsome. Some leaders and motivational speakers are good at telling others to love themselves and to accept how they look. Nevertheless there are still those who need to seek help and those who beat themselves up because of how they are. However is social conformity really the key to happiness? Social conformity is notoriously found in the book Uglies where turning 16 gives you the opportunity to undergo plastic surgery to change your appearance into a “pretty” look. Tally Youngblood is a rare example of a 16 year old girl who hasn’t undergo plastic surgery and was sent to the Smoke, a small town where those who don’t believe in plastic surgery or the society's ambitions go to live like the people of today. However Shay, a friends of Tally’s, is an example of an “ugly” who has a very strong opinion about the surgery, a very negative opinion about it.

Being the outcast means being rejected by society, or a social group. A simple word that means so much can affect so many. Now in school not everyone is accepted in the being in a group of friends, or being part of something they want to do. This may lead them on from thinking why they are being left out, or why they don’t belong. In the novel Uglies, written by Scott Westerfield, talks about how a society from the future resist the urge from anyone feeling left out of how they look. It also promotes peace among its recipients, with the idea that being beautiful trumps all forms of inequality,like race and orientation, because everyone is ugly at one point in their lives, than pretty in another. Tally’s society is controlled in an environment

David slowly starts convincing Tally that flaws aren’t important. “Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else” (Westerfeld 264). Tally thought being pretty only mattered on the outside. When she met David, he showed her that it’s okay to not look or be perfect. David showed Tally that don’t matter as much as she thought they did. Shay tries to prove to Tally that being unique is better than falling into what society deems pretty. “We don’t have to look like everyone else, Tally, and act like everyone else. We’ve got a choice. We can grow up any way we want” (Westerfeld 86). The author writes this passage to show that being unique and your own self is more important than fitting in. Being different from others shows one’s true identity, and all of the extraordinary things about someone. At the beginning of the Uglies, we see how all of the uglies call each other by their flaws. They think that their flaws are identifying them in a negative way. Therefore, throughout Tally’s journey, the author tries to show that having flaws shouldn’t be negative. That having flaws are what make a person unlike anyone

Throughout his novel, Perfect Peace, Daniel Black focuses on the idea of feminine beauty and what it means to be a beautiful black woman or a pretty black girl. Black highlights the problematic nature that rigid internalized beauty standards can have on women well into their elderly years. Black uses both Emma Jean and Perfect’s characters, as well as addition characters such as Caroline and Eva Mae, to show the negativity associated with black beauty standards.

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 in everyone, everywhere. In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.

We see the same ideas in uglies. The society is willing to change their entire body in order to be “pretty” and more accepted. People are willing to go through with things like this because, we only see the good sides of it, but never the bad. All Tally ever wanted to do was to get the surgery. She saw the parties, the “happiness” ,the friendship, but never saw what it really

Imagine living in a world where when you turn sixteen you have to change completely? Scott 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.

In the novel, Beauty by Robin Mc Kinley, the family of a wealthy merchant looses their wealth when the shipment boats get lost at sea. There are three daughters named Hope, Grace, and Honour, whom is nicknamed Beauty, and a father. The family is forced to move to the country and start a life more modest than accustomed. After the family adapts to country life, one of the older sisters gets married to an iron worker who used to work at the shipyard owned by the father. They have babies. Life goes on in the country.

The Talk, a humorous essay - with a serious message - by Gary Soto, shows the reader a small snippet into the lives of two boys who find themselves to be “ugly”. The twelve-year-olds elaborate on their ugliness, from the narrator's gangling arms to his pencil dot eyes. Later, they dream about their future; the kind of girl they want to marry, and what jobs they want. The narrator expresses that even though he’s ugly, he’ll have a beautiful wife, and she’ll have plenty of dresses. Toward the end of the piece, the boys watch a girl - not for the first time, mind you - through her bedroom window.

This book contains a futuristic setting where everyone is ugly, and then when they turn 16, they get an operation done where they become absolutely beautiful. All of the pretties live together, completely separated from all of the uglies who live together. The main character is a 15 year old girl, almost 16, named Tally Youngblood. She is an adventurous girl who loves to sneak out and play tricks on others in Uglyville, but she is excited to grow up and become pretty. She is also loyal which plays a big role throughout the book because she

The new technology in particular, influences most people to look more beautiful, for them to be attractive. It is for that reason that Tally, at the age of 15 years, cannot wait for her 16th birthday for her to be transformed (Emma, n.p). It seems the new technology and the world in general, have corrupted the minds of young girls to the point where they desire to look more beautiful. Those who have not yet been transformed through undergoing a series of surgeries to become beautiful, are considered ugly. This basically makes young girls to view themselves as being ugly, until they undergo the surgery at the age of 16 years.

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.

The second book in the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, is about a girl named Tally Youngblood, who is the main character throughout all the books. Tally is a sixteen-year-old who has just undergone the operation that changed her from an Ugly to a Pretty. Tally has become a member of the most popular group in New Pretty Town, the Crims. After attending a costume party, she discovers that she gave her consent to take an untested drug made by one of the leaders of New Smoke, a group that lives outside of the cities, in order to heal the lesions in her brain left by the operation. Tally and her friend Zane find the hidden

Growing up we are surrounded by the media, and without acknowledging what is taking place, we are formed into gender roles that dictate our perspective and place in society. I remember opening my very first Seventeen Magazine. Flipping the pages I found images of beautiful girls, expensive clothing, and what would be, my very first diet plan. Headlines filled the pages on ways to improve your physical appearance, how to make all the boys want you, and what you would have to buy in order to make this happen. As a girl I did not question the path that these popular sources of media were leading me down. My friends and I would crowd around the television screen watching depictions of women that we envied.

Whether we like to essentially admit it or not, physical appearance literally is a particular sort of the main factor in a person’s characteristics in society. It basically for all intents and purposes is almost unavoidable to mostly see things in everyday life that actually encourage the act of altering someone’s face through makeup or surgery or even the way somebody dresses or essentially carries themselves in a subtle way in a major way. The beauty industry works really heard at targeting women, specifically definitely young girls to alter their appearance to something that is unrealistic in a major way, which is quite significant. The beauty industry’s influence on young girls in America can cause health risks; both mentally and physically. Awareness should, for the most part, be spread to really make individuals particularly basically realize that the standards that generally are set could actually, for the most part, be harmful to our children and really specifically are truly unrealistic; outweighing the benefits of being attractive, contrary to popular belief, which particularly is quite significant. It actually is important to kind of inform our youth about beauty before the beauty industry itself does, or so they thought. Beauty can range from the things we literally wear to the way we really really walk and essentially mostly talk in a definitely big way. The media displays everyday what society perceives as the perfect person, setting a generally definitely goal