Uglies by Scott Westerfield is a young adult dystopian novel that deals with geopolitics, social and economic totalitarianism, and the spatial analysis of the dynamic of futuristic cities controlled by such a government. In the book, everyone receives dramatic surgery at the age of sixteen that makes them super-humanly beautiful, turning them into Pretties. This procedure was put into place to create peace amongst men by making everyone look the same and has no biological advantages, therefore they
A. Introduction- The Uglies is a book about a futuristic look of America. There are a lot of futuristic things like hover boards. But this society isn’t perfect like people think. The narrator in this book is tally Youngblood who will be on a journey to find her best friend. In this society everyone is obsessed with beauty. And the Uglies are the people between the ages of 12 and 16 they live in a remote community far from the beautiful people. In this community the Uglies anxiously wait for their
‘Uglies’ is a science fiction, fantasy, adventure book written by Scott Westerfeld. Scott Westerfeld’s inspiration to writing Uglies was because his friend whose dentist asked him to consider getting cosmetic surgery. Uglies is set in a distant future where the technology is far more advanced. Uglies is a dystopian society where the world got wiped out by a horrible disaster and fell into ruins as the years went by. In Uglies a whole new civilization is created, and a law which the people in ‘Uglies’
Scott Westerfeld’s dystopian book, Uglies, published in 2005, takes place in Uglyville and New Pretty Town. Tally Youngblood, who’s about to turn sixteen isn’t excited about getting her driver’s license like any other teenager usually is, but instead excited about finally being able to turn pretty. In Uglyville 16 year olds go through an operation to get a whole new look; a new face, new skin, basically a chance to become a whole new person. Although not everyone is positive they want to go through
as shown in the novel Uglies. Tally, the protagonist in this novel, lives in a community where everyone is expected to be pretty, and everyone that is “normal” is ugly. This causes Tally to have negative experiences everywhere she goes. Tally and her best friend Peris have a really weak connection because of this. Tally states, ”He [Peris] said that they’d be best friends again, once she was pretty. But the way he looked at her face… maybe that was why they separated Uglies from Pretties” (Westerfeld
The book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is about a dystopian society where when you turn 16, you become a Pretty, where they change all your features so you look beautiful. Some people believe this is wrong so they run away. Tally, the main character, has to face being with her best friend Peris that turned pretty and waiting for her also, or her new friend that ran way. She either has to tell where her friend went to and have their entire village destroyed, or never be with her Peers, family, or turn
Uglies-Pretties by Scott Westerfeld. Uglies is about a girl named Tally Youngblood, She is fifteen going on sixteen. In this town sweet sixteen actually means something. It means that you are finally old enough to get the surgery. They turn you from gross uglie to a beautiful pretty. Not only that but when you turn six teen all you need to do is have fun in a high tech world filled with booze, But before Tally turns pretty she is met by Shay. Shay does not want to turn pretty she wants to escape
” In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the main character, Tally, is confronted with the meaning of beauty. All of her life she has grown up thinking she was ugly, because you can only be pretty after your operation on your sixteenth birthday. Tally has lived with the fact that, because she is normal, she is ugly. Tally’s best friend, Peris, was three months older than her. She went to find him in New Pretty Town, but she was not allowed to be there. Because she was still an “ugly,” Tally had to
Huzij 1 Lori Huzij May 16 2014 Ms. Daoust ENG4U Theme Analysis: Uglies In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the story focuses on the theme of friendship and how it is necessary for happiness. Tally Youngblood is the central character whose tricks become much more serious when her intense relationships get her into a series of problems. Westerfeld allows his audience to truly connect with his story by using various elements involving setting, symbolism, and character relationships. Westerfeld also
My two main topics are; Don’t let other determine your worth, and Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want. In the book Uglies and the Movie Gattaca the main characters struggle with these two topics. The book Uglies follows a 15 going on 16 year old girl, who is an Ugly and would do anything to become a Pretty sooner than her 16th birthday. All she’s ever had to look forward to was turning 16 and becoming pretty. She wishes for it even more because her best friend
The Ugly Andersen “Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale” – Hans Christian Andersen. In the fairytale, “The Ugly Duckling”, the author, Hans Christian Andersen illustrates the character of the ugly duckling as one who struggles with unaccepting characters in his life, even his own family because of his appearance. Just as the duckling, Andersen, an outsider himself, lived a life of unacceptance by his peers. Through his writing, Andersen portrays his own personal life experiences as an outcast
2014 What is Beauty? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you don’t consider yourself beautiful, do you automatically consider yourself ugly? Being different; does that make you unappealing, and make it uncomfortable? Just because someone has a different look, and is not the same as everyone else, does that make them any less beautiful? The story “The Ugly Duckling” teaches children that just because you’re not someone’s ideal of beauty, it does not make you any less beautiful. The ducklings in
believes in capitalism, is a strong opponent of Communism. Their perception of Communism is negative; and this is often shown through different medias, such as television shows, movies, and literatures. One example is The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick. In The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick portray Communism as a force of evil that is slowly spreading in undeveloped Asian countries like a virus, with many of the citizens of these Asian countries becoming Communists. As well
Tally is an exceptional character from the book Uglies who captivates everyone's attention with her bold personality. Dr. Cable manipulated her by making her go to Smoke all alone, which was an action of a risk taker. In addition, she accomplished many actions that took true courage while she was running away from Special Circumstances during the Smoke invasion. Along with these positive qualities, Tally is a determined girl who will get what she wants when she puts her mind to it. From all the characters
try to make their lives into portray reality under their frivolous endings. Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling” symbolizes and defines the feelings, insecurities, and desires of not only the protagonist in the story but also the antagonists and the readers. The story of “The Ugly Duckling” represents the development of emotions and control. When the other creatures call the ugly duckling out on his flaws (Anderson), they feel powerful. Andersen uses this emotion to identify a person’s
The Ugly Duckling, tells the story of a little duck born on a farm, who suffers emotional and verbal abuse, from his family and peers. Because of this abuse the duckling is depressed and feels unloved. The ugly duckling is being treated differently because he looks, acts and thinks different from all the other ducks on the farm. The duckling runs away in the hopes of better gaining acceptance in his self, while experiencing the pros and cons of society. Towards the end of the story the ugly duckling
“The Ugly Duckling” is a fairytale that almost every child in the world grows up with and almost knows by heart. A story of a unique duckling that is banished by his family because he looks different and they no longer want him. The duckling goes on a journey of realization of trying to figure out where he truly belongs and who he is. Through this banishment and exile from his family, he discovers himself and his community of beautiful swans. Never the less, the duckling gains an unexpected strength
He introduced new timbres and instruments to film scores such as the electric guitar, animal noises, and countless other sound effects. “The theme from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly has had a major impact on westerns. The musical scores for cowboy films of John Wayne and Roy Rogers were very American-ized, that cowboys were true symbols of America — they were rough, rugged, yet ready to help a Samaritan in peril; Morricone’s whips
paints a very graphic picture in “The Ugly Duckling” of how the the Ugly Duckling comes to determine his self-worth by the means of his appearance, and shows a connection to Bobbi Harro’s “Cycle of Socialization”. In this fairy tale, the Ugly Duckling goes through the stages of life with constant battering about his self appearance (and forms what he believes he is based of those opinions from the agent group.) During the first stage of his life, The Ugly Duckling was outcasted from the beginning
“The Ugly Duckling” is a fable written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1844. Although it is nearly 200 years old, the story is still one of the most popular retold within modern culture. Hans Christian Andersen lived a childhood of poverty and neglect, raised in his father's shoe shop. He told the critics of his time, that the story reflected his own life and it was the reason he wrote it, he described the story as his “autobiography” (Sklenar, D., n.d.). On a warm, summer day on a farm, a mother duck