How Did Tally Change In Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

Tally is keeping track of the months and days until she will become a pretty and be able to see her best friend Peris again.

When Tally got on the hover-board to go and get her operation she could tell that something was wrong, but she did not know what it was: “The strange-looking man flew with an aggressive impatience”(Westerfeld 99). Then Tally was brought into Special Circumstances and brought into a room. Dr. Cable then walks into the room that Tally was in and told her that she would not be getting the pretty operation unless she helped them find the Smoke. When Tally decides to betray Shay to help Special Circumstances, so she can get the pretty operation is when Tally goes off on her journey to the

stays focused on reality and her idea of perception as well as the friendships she acquires in her two year stay at McLean Hospital and her recovery period once she is released.

“He’d do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter” (265). In the book the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, the Panama Hotel is on the corner of Chinatown and Japantown. The hotel is located between the two cultures Henry is tied to, the Japanese and the Chinese. The story takes place in Henry’s past when he first meets Keiko and the present, after his wife, Ethel, has died. The hotel acts as the connection in between the two cultures and the two time periods, and symbolizes how Henry does too.

Throughout The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, I sympathized with Keiko and Henry the most. Although both are minority races, they are discriminated against differently. Keiko identifies as 'American', but that does not seem to matter as her family and the rest of the citizens of Japanese descent are whisked into armed, prison-like camps by U.S. officials. I can relate to her since I have been discriminated against because of my ethnicity. It seems easy for some to make stereotypes about other races, especially in a time where everyone is looking for somewhere to place the blame. For example, the discrimination is evident when Keiko and Henry try to buy a record- Keiko is not even acknowledged because she is Japanese.

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

While escaping, Shay and Tally wound up riding a hover board together. Tally starts apologizing to Shay for betraying The Smoke, but Shay is okay with being pretty now. “Tally thought of the lesions on Shay’s brain, the tiny cancers or wounds or whatever they were, that she didn’t even know she had. They were in there somewhere, changing her friend’s thoughts, warping her feelings, gnawing at the roots of who she was” (379 Scott Westerfeld). Tally is thinking to herself about what the government did to her best friend and why Shay would now be okay with the operation when she was so against it in the beginning. This proves that the government is putting lesions in all of the new pretties brains that they are not aware about. These lesions control people’s thoughts and change their personality so that there is no trace of their former selves which makes them beings of the government. This results in the government being able to maintain a position of high

She decided to go anyways and she crash landed in a river. She winds up breaking her hover board and has to walk the rest of the way across the entire city to get to the New Smokies. Then she realizes that she had landed in a Special circumstances experiment. After a week she escaped by using a hover- car and flies to the New Smoke. When she arrives David (her old boyfriend as a Smokie) is there with his hover board and they go to where everyone is staying in the New Smoke. But Tally finds out that Zane is still extremely sick. In the meantime, while they wait Tally decides to go to the river and take a bath. In the midst of it David goes to the river and tells her that someone had a tracker on them and the Specials should be there soon. He tells her everyone must leave, but first they have to find the bug. They check everyone but they find out that when Zane was in the hospital they implanted a tracker and they used it to find the New Smoke. They can’t take it out of Zane so everyone escapes except for Zane and Tally stays with him. A few minutes after the escape Special circumstances arrives and takes them both. When Tally awakens she realizes that Dr. Cable, a Special herself, has made Tally into a Special

Backtracking years, even decades, one will find the origin of Boo Radley’s knack for violence. It started when he was just a teenager. Fitting in with the wrong crowd, he befriended the Cunninghams. The closest thing to a gang Maycomb ever had, they went around causing, not too much mayhem at first, but soon became more and more violent. The first serious offense they committed was locking poor old Mr. Conner, Maycomb’s beadle, in the courthouse outhouse after they resisted arrest. Now one might be thinking, Oh, that was a long time ago. Boo’s changed. Well, he hasn’t. He’s only become worse since then. Not even thirteen years ago, the town saw Boo for the first time in fifteen years, when he drove a pair of scissors into his father’s leg. Every single person in the town knows the truth; Boo Radley is lethal. This is proof that he has kept his violent nature over the years, perhaps practicing for when a racist pig of a man attacks two children. That is, two children he has been stalking.

Shay, her new best friend, decides to run away to a place where being ugly doesn't really matter to anyone. “ it’s not like here, Tally. They don't separate everyone , uglies from pretties, new and middle and late. And you can leave whenever you want, go anywhere you want.” The relationship that Tally had with Shay was strong, but took the place of the surgery and Tally was willing to turn shay in.

Inciting Event: Millicent received an invitation to join the sorority. There, she hoped to make lots of friends in order to get popular.

In the Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde creates two completely different identities for two of the main characters, in two entirely different settings. One of the settings takes place in a town in England and the other takes place in Hertfordshire, in the country. I believe that Wilde purposely did that to reflect on the characters that he wanted to portray. When Jack Worthing is in the country, where he resides, he is a well-respected, wealthy man that a lot of depend on. He is a major landowner and Justice of the Peace in Hertfordshire, where he has a country estate. He received his good fortune and respectability from his adopted father. Coming from this, he must know the rules and behaviors of polite society. He is extremely witty

Eugenides utilizes tone in the story to help readers develop sympathy and pity towards Callie. All throughout the passage, the tone of the story is serious. Callie acknowledges that “her mother was crying in the next room, and the doctors were working on Callie’s disease in secret.” The statements convey that Callie’s parents are also disappointed and ashamed of what their daughter has become. Callie understands that her mother sheds tears thinking what she has done to deserve a defected daughter. Callie’s parents are so ashamed and overwhelmed that they took Callie to New York to try and heal in secret instead of in the open. Callie’s parents do not want others to see what has happened to her out of concern for their daughter’s social life as a normal individual. The thoughts and emotions expressed give readers pity towards Callie and her condition. Callie muses that “she longed to be held, caressed, which was impossible.” Callie wishes to be comforted and surrounded by others that loved and understood her. Unfortunately, Callie views herself so much like a monster rather than an individual that she is too far long to be comforted by anyone. Readers infer that Callie is

After Tally becomes a pretty, she wants to join the top clique which is the Crims. They have to go to a party where they have to dress up, and the best dressed get voted into the Crims. At the party Tally believes she is being watched by someone. Tally think it is a member of the Special Circumstances team. But she soon discovers it is an old friend from the place she used to live and his name is Croy. He tells her that he has something for her, but he doesn’t get the chance to give it to her because the police come into the party looking for Croy. Croy hurries and gives Tally a note. The note gives Tally clues to the place Croy hid the secret object. Tally meets the head leader of the Crims, Zane. Tally mentions Croy’s name and Zane tells

Beauty is pain. Isn’t it? From hair and nails to skin care and pedicures, a women wants to feel beautiful inside and out. Women would go through just about anything to have the perfect eyebrow, manicure, and much more. Often what women envy most in other women is the genes of long beautiful hair.