the Bad and the Ugly

What do people do when they are trapped in a toxic environment? They escape! In “The Uglies” by Scott Westerfeld, Tally, the main character, tries to escape her fate of extreme plastic surgery and brain damage. In “The Art of Resilience”, Hara Estroff Marano discusses how troubled children rise above adversity, and change their lives for the better. In “The Third and Final Continent” Jhumpa Lahiri tells a story of an Indian immigrant who travels to Britain and America to make a better life for himself

she was ugly” (Morrison 126). Because Pecola doesn’t fit into middle class standards of beauty, as she grows, she begins to believe she is ugly, yet Morrison forces us to sympathize with her and by doing so challenges beauty standards to be more inclusive. “The fact is … ethics and aesthetics are inseparable in art” (Tanner) but The Bluest Eye subverts the traditional literary ethics and aesthetics theory: what is beautiful is good, by showing that Pecola’s perception of herself as ugly does not

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

towards everything that she is; she is “ugly,” she is poor, she is black. In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Morrison shines a critical light on society, illumining the immoral acts that it participates in, through the story of how a little girl is thrown by the wayside since she does not embody the societal ideal. Instead of one human

Pecola Breedlove is a young girl growing up black and poor in the early 1940s. She is repeatedly called "ugly" by nearly everyone in her life, from the mean kids at school to her own mother. This constant criticism, the relentless bullying she gets at school, and her rough family life (her parents are always fighting, both verbally and physically) lead Pecola to seek escape from her misery by fantasizing about becoming more beautiful. Pecola begins to believe that if she could just achieve physical

William Golding and "Uglies" by Scott Westerfield, they both show the good and bad sides of humanity. They do this by showing how easy something can turn from order to disaster. The book, "Lord of the flies" is about a group of stranded young boys on an island.With no directions to follow, it’s up to the boys to create their own rules, their own society. After being alone for such a long time, the boys forget about humanity and become complete savages. On the other hand, in “Uglies,” there are cities

to be too stark or too obvious but to someone who is enduring ridicule, it does become a little too visible. I was in grade six when my teacher sent a note to my parents saying that I might need glasses. While being a little myopic wasn't all that bad, and especially now when almost half of the school population wears glasses, it was definitely a big thing back in the 80s when very few kids had to wear glasses. I believed in my heart that I looked prettier without glasses and I felt that somehow

differ from Dr. Jekyll, including being ugly, wicked, and ape-like. The first person to encounter Mr. Hyde was Mr. Enfield, who thought Mr. Hyde was ugly. As Mr. Enfield sees Mr. Hyde raping the little girl, Hyde is forced to pay for all the damage. Hyde has to make Enfield a check and go to the little girl’s family to tell them what he did. This is the first time Enfield sees Hyde. “He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like

for her daughters. Pacola is a little black girl has a hard time finding herself. Brought up as a poor unwanted girl, she desires the acceptance and love of society, but cannot get it or so she supposes. The world has led her to believe that she is ugly and for her to be “beautiful” she need blue eyes. Every night before she goes to sleep, she prays that may she wake up with blue eyes. The image of “Shirley Temple beauty” surrounds her. In her mind, if she were to be beautiful, people would finally

Meg has many aspects about her, after all she is the protagonist. Meg acts immature to say the least, she has some good excuses though. For starters her father disappeared, which had a large negative impact, and quite possibly is the reason she is the way she turned out. Meg also has very intellectual parents, which is why she thinks she is dumb. SInce she is the protagonist, she interacts with many characters, so someone can tell her relationship with that character. Meg’s brother sticks around