Scott Westerfeld

“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 children are all outcast for many different reasons. Society judges people for traits including, skin colour, gender, hair color, and body type. The media and society constantly make people feel bad about the way they look. In Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, the main theme is about finding one's identity in a world that already has one made up for them. Despite this theme, the characters in the novel do not strive to overcome society’s stereotypes. The pretties, specials and the uglies do not try

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

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

We all have friends that we would give up everything to save or be with. In “Pretties,” by Scott Westerfeld, Tally has to sacrifice her new life as a Pretty(which she has always wanted to become) in order to save not only herself, but her friends and the whole city. “Uglies,” also written by Scott Westerfeld(the first book of the series) Tally has to sacrifice her life in order to turn pretty to be with Peris, her old friend from Uglyville who turned pretty before her. Both of these stories are teaching

Imagine the appeal of the promise of supermodel beauty. Amazing right? Did I mention it's not that simple, and maybe not even that desirable? In the book “Uglies”, written by Scott Westerfeld, this is not only the promise, it is societies protocol. Societies rule is that when you turn 16, you are forced to have cosmetic surgery resulting in you becoming so called ‘Pretty’. The book forces you to confront matters such as the perception of beauty, the notion of State versus individual choice and the

Dr. Seuss, an author and illustrator of 41 known books from the 1900s, once stated, “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, is sure to make a reader find the magic within reading. 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

In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, in it the first book in the series written by Scott. Other books in this series include, Pretties, Specials, and Extras. This book mainly takes place in Uglyville, where all the uglies live before they turn sixteen and become pretty. Tally, the main character, who is perseverant and indecisive, meets two other relevant characters in the story as well that are named Shay and David. The inciting incident that starts the conflict is when Shay runs away, in hopes

the story, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the main conflict and resolution of the novel was the following: Tally was not going to be pretty until she turned her friends in and the resolution is that Tally becomes pretty after the Smoke gets destroyed. As Westerfeld states, “‘Then I’ll make you promise too, Tally Youngblood. Until you do help us, to the very best of your ability, you will never be pretty.’ Dr. Cable turned away. ‘You can die ugly, for all I care.’” (Westerfeld 106). This proves the

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