Uglies Character Analysis

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 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.

In Uglies by Westerfeld, the main character, Tally goes through changes through out the book, like Tally’s decision on becoming a pretty and her choice of going to the Smoke. Tally Youngblood is the protagonist in the novel Uglies. Throughout the story, Tally Youngblood experiences a lot of changes. As Tally’s character experience these changes, her perspective on turning pretty had changed while meeting Shay helped Tally become more rebellious.

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

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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 trilogy by Scott Westerfeld, taking place soon after the first book. I was fascinated by the idea of a society where everyone got an operation at the age of 16 to make them beautiful and then segregate them into another world . I really enjoyed the book, and the concept is good but the execution was not as great as it could have been. The Pretty world and the Ugly world are extremely contrastive and Tally’s character has changed from Uglies along with her look. One of the prime features of the novel is that it makes you reflect about identity and what affects who we are. We get to take a glimpse inside New Pretty Town, and experience all the futuristic technology they are given access to. On the other

As people, we understand the world through our own perspective. When people do not quite understand, or do not want to, they often misunderstand situations and other people. Humans tend to label each other as one thing when they can be something else completely. In Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya, Narciso is misunderstood as just a town drunk when he really is a hero.

The book, Bless Me, Ultima is one of fiction which is loosely based upon Anaya, the author, and his life as a child. The book centers around a six-year-old child living in New Mexico named Antonio. He grew up quickly during the end of World War II when the veterans return. Because of the war, Antonio experiences events as a child that most people only hear about. Soon after the story of Antonio begins, there is religion, insanity, tragedy, and battle. Bless Me, Ultima is a book about Antonio greatly maturing through his mental and emotional hardships experienced as a child because of WWII.

In the novel Bless Me, Ultima author, Rudolfo Anaya introduces a character by the name of Antonio Márez or “Tony” as referred to by his friends and family. In the novel Antonio appears to be the embodiment of an entire generation of children that are born to traditional Mexican/Native families but raised in an ever so diverse United States. In a Q & A with Rudolfo Anaya at the end of the novel he states, “my mother was a very religious person, much like Antonio’s mother in the novel. I grew up completely imbued with the Catholic cosmology. Later I discovered there are many religions in the world, many spiritual paths. These paths are part of our inheritance as Nuevos Hispanos. They stretch from Mesoamerica to the Indian Pueblos of the Río

“In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly”(Scott Westerfeld). In the future, everyone is considered ugly and live in imperfect Uglyville, until they turn 16. The magical age where you get The Operation. The Operation that turns you pretty, lets you live in perfect Pretty Town, and is considered the most important thing in life. In the novel Uglies, written by Scott Westerfeld, he features the dystopian archetypes of a dehumanized state and conformity showing the result of everyone looking and acting the same way so the government can control them and maintain a position of high anarchy.

The book “Uglies,” has a good side and also a bad one to humanity. In the beginning of the book (which would be known as the good side) life in all of the cities were all in order. Everyone started in “Uglyville” were at school they learned all about the good

The book “Ugly” by Robert Hoge it is a inspiring, true story about, Robert, a boy who grew up in Brisbane, Australia, with a tumor the size of a tennis ball on his face and two deformed legs. Robert had four other brothers and sisters, who were all older. The story is the journey of Robert Hoge and his life with artificial legs and deformed face, and all the challenges he faced along the way.

“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

As I read Uglies, I consider the topic of acceptance because the message the author is trying to get across is that everyone should just be accepted for who they are. When I read this book, I see a society that needs to change. The place the characters live in forces them to get a surgery to change into what society considers “attractive”. You are called “ugly” or a “pretty” and treated differently based on your looks. In my opinion, this is very wrong. No one should be judged based on the way they look. Everyone should just be accepted for who they are and not be judged by who they are on the outside. Tally says in the book, “What’s inside you, matters more.” I think the author had Tally say that to prove his point even more; that