Uglies Scott Westerfeld Essay

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.

The protagonist in the book is a teenager named Nikki Maxwell. Nikki is always complaining. She complains about everything to her diary. Also, she is a little hateful. She is crazy. Also, she not mature at all.,She also thinks she is better than everyone. This story takes place in 2000’s. Also, it just a normal town.

The book Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone is a relatistic fiction about a girl named Samantha Mcalllister who looks justlike the rest of the populars girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the expertly applied makeup is a secret her friends would never understand. Samantha has a purley-obsessional OCD and is consumbed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries she cannot turn off. Later on, she gets introduced toa poet's group by her friend, and slowly begings to feel normal, until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she

The novel looks by madeline George follwes the story of two girls who struggle with their body image, which in turn causes them to feel and be invisible. The story begins with the two girls not knowing each other, but silently observing each other from afar. Meghan Ball who struggles with being obese in the book, sees her high school as a puzzle that her piece will never fit in, while Aimee Zorn who struggles with being underweight also feels invisible, but enjoys writing her feelings and observations in poems. The two girls eventually come together in the book, so that they can get revenge on one of the characters, Cara, a popular girl who seemingly lives a perfect life, and managed to hurt them both. The girls motives for coming together,

The book of uglies speaks for its self.its about a teenage girl named tally youngblood who is in for a surprise when she thinks her birthday is going to be a good day, the main character of the uglies is tally she is tricky but also smart. As well as faithful to her friends she make4s promises to.

The novel, “Bad Girls Don’t Die,” by Katie Alender, is based off a girl named Alexis who thinks of herself being a total outcast at school. To make things much worse in Alexis’ life, her parents are divorced and she has started to notice that her sister, Kasey, is starting to act a bit strange than normal. Weird things started occurring around Alexis’ house like weird glowing lights appearing out of nowhere and her sister starts acting in an odd way and begins to have a major obsession over dolls. Kasey’s appearance sometimes changes and her characteristics and behavior starts to change as well like when her eyes change color or when she starts to speak different languages no one understood. Alexis tries her best to believe that none of what

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

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Hello, reader today I will be talking about a realistic fictional book called Faceless, by Alyssa Sheinmel. The story takes place in a suburb of San Francisco in the present day, it is the end of the school year. Maisie Winters, a seventeen-year-old girl, tells this story in first person narrative. When someone told me about Faceless, I want’ed to read it. I have read a book about a face transplant and it sounded intriguing.

Westerfield perfectly portrays how we, as a society, see beauty. We see beauty as perfection, not a line out of place, and this judgement came about due to our desire for perfection. When picking up any magazine the front page is bound to be altered to show us how we should look. Gone are the days where voluptuous, well rounded women are considered to be goddesses. People in today’s society see models and movie stars starve themselves until they believe they are beautiful and Westerfield plays on this throughout the entire text. Tally sees herself as ugly because she does not notice anything good about her, until she meets David. When anyone compliments Tally she refuses to believe it as the truth, and it is unlikely that she has ever felt attractive in her whole life. Westerfield only describes Tally the way she sees herself and although it is in the third person the reader is given certain knowledge about what goes on through Tally’s mind which the reader does not have for any other character. At the beginning of the text the reader is led to believe that Pretties have the idealistic life; beautiful with not a care in the world but the reader may feel discomfort with how superficial it all seems. Nothing is wrong with the way Tally looks and the reader can presume that she is quite naturally attractive after receiving several compliments from two

Uglies is a novel placed in the future. The outline of the story is that a young girl named Tally is 15, going on 16. She is about to go through a pretty serious cosmetic surgery to make her “pretty.” Then, after she gets this surgery she can be on the pretty side of town with her friend Peris. On the pretty side of town is where the grass could be considered greener, it’s fun and carefree without a worry in the world. Tally and Shay are still unsure about undergoing the procedure just to become pretty, Shay thinks there is more to life than just being a pretty face and a dull personality. While Tally and Shay ponder becoming pretty, Shay decides to run off to the smoke to get away from the stress of the situation. While Shay is in the smoke, Tally is forced to run away as well to find her.

How they start of perfectly normal, full of flaws, and becoming the idea of perfection. This suits the transition from Ugly to Pretty. For 16 years of your life, you are constantly degraded for your physical appearance, given nicknames of the worst kind because how you look is monstrous in comparison to the perfection of the Pretties. You're constantly being compared to a beauty that can never be reached naturally, so you struggle to find your own identity because everyone is telling you are something that you aren't. So, on your 16th birthday, you are given a surgery that forms into what everyone considers beauty and it is the highlight of your life, because from then on it's easy-going.

In the world that tally lives in everyone turns pretty at the age of sixteen. She thinks since there is a minimum amount time left before she turns there is no need to be worried about getting caught, she thought even if she did they would still turn get the operation.

However, in Uglies the book begins in the Summer. The start of the series takes place in Uglyville where children ages 12-15 live. Pretties and Specials mainly take place in New Pretty Town. Once a child turns 12 they stop living with their parents and live in Uglyville until they turn 16 (Westerfeld, Scott).

\This book talks about a kid named August,and his challenges in middle school. This boy has a problem on his face.august speaks about discrimination at school.The reason for the difference is your problem of the kid.the child tries to be like anyone despite her problem in the face.