Personal Response: The book Uglies is a great book for middle and high schoolers that are looking for an easy fun read. Uglies is a very dramatic book with a lot of drama. I personally think it takes away from the plot line, but other students could like it.
Plot: The book starts out with the main character Tally, in a futuristic time period where at age 16 everyone gets an operation to make them “pretty”. The city is divided into 3 sectors, new pretty town, uglyville, and the township for the littlies. Most uglies are just normal teanagers doing normal teenage things like going to school and playing “tricks” on other teenagers and the city. Tally’s best friend Paris moved to new pretty town 3 months before Tally when he turned 16. Tally and …show more content…
Eventually when Tally gets sick of being alone she does the daring and sneaks into new pretty town to see Paris. After she makes a narrow escape, she is almost back into uglyville, but then she sees someone, who she eventually notices is another ugly. She turns out to be a girl named Shay, who has the same birthday as Tally and so they become friends. Shay teaches Tally how to hoverboard. Tally eventually notices she is always talking about this allusive boy named David and this imaginary place he lived called the smoke. The day before their birthday Shay says that she is running away to this mysterious smoke place, and gives Tally a riddle which are instructions of how to get there. Eventually before Tally got the operation, she is pulled off to meet with this sort of government called Special Circumstances. They tell her that she won't turn pretty unless she goes and rats out where the smoke was. At first she denies it, but after talking with her parents and Paris, she decides to go and do it. She is given a locket that will act as a tracker when activated. She is sent off on her exhibition. As she is working through the riddle of directions, and almost dying a few times, she makes it to the last part of the note. She had to wait in these orchids to be
Plot: The book starts out with the main character Tally, in a futuristic time period where at age 16 everyone gets an operation to make them “pretty”. The city is divided into 3 sectors, new pretty town, uglyville, and the township for the littlies. Most uglies are just normal teanagers doing normal teenage things like going to school and playing “tricks” on other teenagers and the city. Tally’s best friend Paris moved to new pretty town 3 months before Tally when he turned 16. Tally and …show more content…
Eventually when Tally gets sick of being alone she does the daring and sneaks into new pretty town to see Paris. After she makes a narrow escape, she is almost back into uglyville, but then she sees someone, who she eventually notices is another ugly. She turns out to be a girl named Shay, who has the same birthday as Tally and so they become friends. Shay teaches Tally how to hoverboard. Tally eventually notices she is always talking about this allusive boy named David and this imaginary place he lived called the smoke. The day before their birthday Shay says that she is running away to this mysterious smoke place, and gives Tally a riddle which are instructions of how to get there. Eventually before Tally got the operation, she is pulled off to meet with this sort of government called Special Circumstances. They tell her that she won't turn pretty unless she goes and rats out where the smoke was. At first she denies it, but after talking with her parents and Paris, she decides to go and do it. She is given a locket that will act as a tracker when activated. She is sent off on her exhibition. As she is working through the riddle of directions, and almost dying a few times, she makes it to the last part of the note. She had to wait in these orchids to be