surgery are call uglies. Tally Youngblood is an ugly who agrees that everyone should be pretty even when they all look the same. She breaks into the Pretty’s mansion and crashes their party. On her way back she met another Ugly named Shay who is against everyone being the same. Shay leaves the day of her birthday, that she shares with Tally. This prevents her from having the surgery because the town doesn’t want anyone to leave. Shay leaves behind a cryptic message that only Tally would be able to decrypt
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
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
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
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
beginning of the book Tally says ‘goodnight’ to the room and the room replies ‘Sweet dreams’. For Tally to sneak into New Pretty Town she had to trick the smart gate by not wearing her interface ring. There was a moment in Uglies where Tally sneaked into New Pretty Town and got caught and police hovercars started to search for her, so she was in a hurry to go back to Uglyville, then she met Shay who also sneaked in and they escaped on hoverboards. There was a game that Tally and Shay was playing it
It creates the main plot in which Tally and other characters must fight against the system that has oppressed them and the rest of the world. The entirety of the world population lives within cities with well-defined boarders. These cities take the place of countries and are the only remaining
Tsukiyama, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, and the play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, one can concur that society treats people differently based on their beauty, and one’s physical appearance can lead them to feeling ashamed, used, or disrespected. Tally Youngblood is a teenage girl, about to turn 16 in the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Since she has not yet had her sixteenth birthday, she is still considered ugly, because she has not yet had a cosmetic surgery making her pretty. This operation is designed
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
the world was on Fire”. (Westerfeld 164) She saw fields on fire, and all that can comes to her head is to run. Fear is alive in her body and she has a different mindset. Tally wants going to be pretty, but to get there she has to risk her life, just to change her face. To get what you want in life one has to endure a lot. Tally, the main character in Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, is a regular citizen of Uglyville but as she is about to turn pretty she has to report a place that is close to her heart
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Summer Reading Assignment Resilience is defined as “The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” In the Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, the main character Tally Youngblood the theme is extreme resilience through her journey. By the use of conflict in both the Uglies and “The Art of Resilience,” written by Hara Estroff Marano, this common theme can be found. Due to the author’s ability to develop the plot in Uglies and “If” it is easy to understand why the characters act with such
actions. In this world, Tally sets out to rid the city of the cruel categories that the citizens are placed in, and let everybody be whoever they want to be. A theme that this book suggests is that people in today’s society are expected to look or act a certain way, when we should be defying stereotypes set by the masses. The first piece of critical evidence is from the first book in this series, Uglies. Shay, the best friend to main character Tally Youngblood, is convincing Tally to the “smoke” with
Chapter 1 Tally Youngblood is all alone because she's still an ugly and her best friend Peris has already been turned pretty. So she busts out of the ugly dorm and breaks into New Pretty Town. Tally and Peris used to do this all the time to watch the stupid new pretties at their stupid parties; they would take an old bridge that's not connected to the security system. But Tally is going to break further into New Pretty Town because she wants to talk to Peris, who is supposed to be her best friend
meet the standard of societal beauty. Tally Youngblood one of the “Uglies” living in Uglyville ( The section of any city where all uglies live) struggles with her confidence and is looking forward to the day where she can be a Pretty alongside with her longtime best friend Periz who recently got his operation done. In this novel Tally struggles with loving who she is and eventually succumbs to the immense pressure coming from the government wanting Tally to become a pretty. In Tally’s world many
Scott Westerfeld. This science fiction novel is about a girl named Tally Youngblood who is about to turn sixteen. In Tally’s world, turning sixteen means undergoing an extreme plastic surgery to become what her society thinks is a “pretty”. When Tally’s friend, Shay, runs away to a land where “uglies” are accepted, Tally has a big decision to make, become a pretty or be accepted for who she is. In this story the main character, Tally, changed a lot. First of all, she was so set on becoming a pretty
Tally Youngblood is the young female protagonist of Scott Westerfeld’s novel, Uglies. The setting takes place in a post-apocalyptic dystopian society. Whoever would be considered “normal” by our present day’s standards would be “ugly” by their standards. People live in their respective Ugly Cities or Pretty Cities. They are born “ugly”, but when they become a certain age a special surgery will be conducted to make them extremely pretty. Ever since they’ve been young children they’ve been told that
more hard headed. Shay and Tally argue a lot about whether the pretty surgery is a good thing. Finally, Shay tells Tally about a hidden town in the wilderness that she plans to go live. This place is where no one is pretty, but Tally refused to go with her. But unfortunately she's been watched by Dr. Cable of the secret police. Dr. Cable threatening Tally into going to find this hidden town and told if she doesn't help find this place, she will never become a pretty. Tally then agrees and goes on a
A famous piece of American literature that’s set in the 1930s, To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, tells the story of Maycomb, a town prejudiced to blacks, whose people clash when some demonstrate a non-oppressed view towards black people. Told through the perspective of Scout Finch, a daughter to a lawyer with high moral beliefs, the six year old learns just how prejudiced mindsets can draw subconscious lines between people, and how objectifying a common social stigma can start wars. Exploring
Westerfeld’s community. Many pretties laugh at respective “uglies” prior to their operation as “uglies” look different than their pretty counterparts. When Tally sneaks into a pretties only party, she “[feels] uglier every second she [spends] there. Being laughed at by everyone she met wasn’t helping much” (Westerfeld 13). For being an “ugly,” Tally is laughed at, and made to be like a second class by the pretties because she is different than them. In Westerfeld’s American society, if a woman does not