What Is The Theme Of Uglies

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.

Many people do not like change. They wish things would just stay the same. Change, however, is inevitable. In Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty is about a girl that spends her summer at a beach house with brother, mom, her mom’s friend, mom’s friend’s children. She is in love with one of her mom’s friends sons. They all go to a beach house every summer, and this summer things begin to change. She wants things to stay exactly like they were in the previous summers. A theme for The Summer I Turned Pretty is that things do not stay the same forever.

“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

In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the author believes that betraying your friends after making a promise only leads to disaster. In the beginning of the book, the main character Tally and her best friend Shay live in a city where everyone is given an operation to turn “pretty” at the age of 16 . Shay and Tally have a strong relationship and hoverboarding is one of the main links between the two. But when Shay tells Tally that she is leaving because she doesn’t want to turn pretty, Tally refuses to leave with her because of her lifelong dream to turn pretty.

No one really looks at your personality if your an ugly. The only think they look at is your face. " Don't judge a book by it's cover" is completely forgot in the real world and in this book. During the reading of "Uglies", I have noticed that their is two themes.

For the science fiction unit, I read the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. This story is the first part of a 4-book series. The authors writes mostly young adult books and also a lot of science fiction.

In the science fiction novel, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the author writes a story about a girl named Tally Youngblood. She lives an a diverse society where after the age of 16, you become “pretty” and are given plastic surgery and entirely change your appearance and lifestyle. Westerfeld writes primarily science fiction novels along with young adult books. Uglies is the first novel in a series with three more following.

In life, making decisions isn’t easy. We make them every single day. Which shirt are you going to wear? What do you want for lunch? How are you going to respond to this text? But, for some people, they have bigger decisions to make, such as picking a college or choosing to get married. In the book Little Monsters by Kara Thomas, Bailey and Jade have always been best friends. But, when Kacey moves into town, the 3 of them easily became a group. One morning, Bailey was said to be missing. Nobody knew if she ran away, was kidnapped, or just staying at a friends house, which made everyone unsure of what happened to her. The book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is very similar to Little Monsters. In this dystopian society, everyone has a label. When you turn 16, you go under the knife to transform any ugly features on yourself into a perfect figure. Once you turn pretty, you live a luxurious life where your only job is to have fun. Tally is about to turn 16 and she is more than beyond excited to start her new life filled with exciting moments. Along the way, she meets a girl named Shay. But, she quickly finds out that Shay is very different and has other thoughts about this choice- she doesn’t want to become pretty. Later on in the story, Tally learns the other side that was hidden and changes her aspect on life as an ugly. In both of these books, someone goes missing, but only one of them makes it out alive.

It is hard to obtain a sense of belonging when we are unsure of our own identity. We live in a world where everything tries to make you something else, where we sometimes struggle with maintaining our own identity and finding our place in society. This idea is explored in the texts: Uglies written by Scott Westerfeld, Divergent written by Veronica Roth, The Book Thief written by Marcus Zusak and the film Looking for Alibrandi by Kate Woods.

An important thematic statement in the book Uglies is that an individual can experience redemption through individuality. This thematic statement allows the reader to better understand how Tally Youngblood must use her personality to fix the damage she has caused. On page 311, Tally uses her quick and clever thinking to escape. “Just get whatever Dr. Cable wants. And don’t you dare touch one of those hoverboards.” “Don’t worry, I don’t have to,” she said, and snapped the fingers of both hands as loudly as she could. Croy’s hover-board jumped into the air, knocking the Special’s feet out from under him. The man rolled off the roof again, and Tally leaped onto the board.” The preceding quote is relevant to the theme because Tally was forced

Some people dream of being able to live up to their society's beauty standards but this was no problem for Tally Youngblood a 15 year old girl living in a world where everyone was turned pretty by the time they were 16. Uglies is a science fiction novel written by Scott Westerfeld that will make you jump out of your seats with its twisting plot. Although being beautiful seems like a blessing to most people in their society, others would disagree. Those people would run away to communities like the Smoke where they stay ugly forever. One day Tally's newfound friend, Shay, disappears leaving only a puzzling note with directions to the Smoke behind. Tally is taken to Special Circumstances, an organization responsible of keeping pretties and uglies

Throughout the Uglies series, author Scott Westerfeld reflects on the faults of our current society. (Tab here) Scott Westerfeld demonstrates society's faults by using a Barbie doll world to exaggerate them. In Uglies, Scott Westerfeld writes, “Even when she and Peris used to spy on them from the shadows, giggling at all the stupid things the pretties said and did, they couldn't resist staring. There was something magic in the their large and perfect eyes, something that made you want to pay attention to whatever they said, to protect them from any danger, to make them happy.

Tally is an ugly just like most people in uglyville. Peris is her best friend. Unfortunately, he's three months older than Tally. While Tally waits three months until her turn to become pretty, she plans to visit Peris. When she finally finds Peris in the mansion; Peris tells her to not to get into trouble. As Tally was leaving, she thought she was caught, but realized it was just another ugly. The uglie’s name was Shay and they were instant friends.