Uglies

Chelsea Dowding-Hopkins Year 9 – Mrs Graham INS essay Uglies by Scott Westerfield One of the main themes in Scott Westerfield’s text Uglies is the conflict teenagers have with where they stand in society and learning to respect and value themselves. Using examples from the text compare them with today’s world for teenagers. Word count: Date Due: Uglies illustrates many issues that young teenagers will go through in life. The reader has an insight of three main characters and their

Do you feel like living in a world where nobody is perfect? In Tally Youngblood’s world, everyone is ugly. When they turn 16, the uglies are turned into a pretty by an operation. Tally is a teenager who wants to be a pretty; however, there are many complications with Tally’s operation. Due to this, Tally has to face many choices which change her old perspectives. In Uglies, Tally’s character changes when she meets Dr. Cable, after David tells her about his secret, and when she is leaving the Smoke

fulfilled if we were smarter, or prettier, or more athletic. It is these times that we neglect to see how great our lives already are. This is the theme of Scott Westerfeld’s novel, Uglies. Like all great writers, Scott Westerfeld supports the theme of his novel with symbolism that is hidden in every character and event. Uglies

The Uglies Everything is not always as fantastic as it seems. The novel The Uglies frequently displays that not everything that looks amazing is amazing. The people in The Uglies all have cosmetic surgery to look biologically beautiful. Some of the citizens rebel and live in a city that they call “The Smoke”. They live there because they refuse to be turned pretty. The theme of The Uglies is something that looks good but may not necessarily be good; this is shown in the book because Tally wanted

beginning of the book Uglies, the main character Tally a almost a sixteen year old girl is a ugly waiting for her next birthday so she can get the operation and turn pretty. Tally had a wide nose, thin lips, too-high of a forehead and a frizzy tangled hair. Tally couldn't wait to see her friend Peris who just became an pretty because they were best friends. She sneaked out to Pretty Town where the Pretties lived to go find Peris. “She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission

Everyone has their own culture, whether they realize it or not. Some people have distinct cultures, but others struggle with the idea of having a specific culture and cannot figure theirs out. In the novel Uglies, Scott Westerfeld uses cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings to demonstrate the impacts and control Special Circumstances has on society, while Tally struggles to break away and fix the operation. In society the government is in charge and controls daily lives through culture

Westerfeld’s, the author of the book Uglies, purpose of writing the story is to teach us that no one needs to change in order to feel like they belong. Scott Westerfeld, I wonder how you came up with the world in which the characters live? I wonder if you were ever made fun of for being ugly? I wonder if you think our world will become this? As I read Uglies, I focused on the fact that the group who rebelled realized that they did not need to change to belong. As I read Uglies, I consider the topic of

Uglies, a young adult novel about a futuristic society, delivers a page turning experience as you read the book, this is a real treat for lovers of realistic fiction. First in its series, it keeps the reader wanting to buy the books after just to catch up with the protagonist Tally’s latest decisions and drama. In just a few short lines, Scott Westerfeld has showed us dialogue, setting and the main character of this novel, leading an interesting and exciting start for the rest of the book. Uglies

Many teens feel like a misfit, someone who cannot fit in with the crowd. Why does society make it seem like you have to be a part of a certain group in order for someone to be accepted? In Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, fifteen-year-old, Tally Youngblood, feels isolated from a group of people because she is an “ugly”. She feels that in order to fit in she needs to have the ‘pretty’ surgery. Tally states, “Pretties do look different. They look like themselves. It's just a lot more subtle, because they're

“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