Scott Westerfeld

society being sectioned off by being beautiful and ugly. Imagine on your sixteenth birthday having to take the risk of a life changing surgery JUST to be pretty. Would you change who you are, just to meet society's beauty standards. In Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, Tally Youngblood thinks having supermodel looks are the key to life, but when realizing the hard truth, everything she believed became one big lie. A significant passage of the book occurs when “One new legend towered above all the…

For my independent reading I choose the book, Pretties by Scott Westerfeld. This is the second book from the series called, Uglies. I read Uglies during my eighth grade year and I loved me. It was a very intriguing story and I knew that if I had to do another independent reading, I would select the second book and I did. The first book mainly focused on how life was like being an “Ugly” and the anticipation of teens turning 16 having the options of doing an operation to be pretty and get to live…

“Nature, at least, didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was” (Westerfeld). Characters constantly change throughout stories as they develop new ways of seeing things. In Uglies, it displays the journey and development of a young fifteen year old girl named Tally Youngblood. She starts off having her whole life planned out in front of her; however, she later begins thinking about what she really wants when she explores other parts of the world. Tally goes through major changes and…

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…

Uglies, written by Scott Westerfeld is an eye-opening book about a perfect world which is set in the distant future where teenagers are distinguished to be either ‘Ugly’ or ‘Pretty’. After a global catastrophe in modern society, preconditioned standards are created for people to follow. Uglies and Pretties are set to live on different sides of the town being separated by a river, to show how their world values appearances. The story starts with a protagonist named Tally Youngblood, a…

Westerfield’s Uglies is a society that is purely dependent on age. A person’s age in the society is what determines where they live and what they can do with their life. For instance, the youngest children live with the middle aged group of people until they turn twelve, which is when all the children move into dorm style living. The society appeals to readers because everyone gets to choose exactly what they look like, and nobody hates anyone. There is no war or any major crimes that make…

Over the summer I read the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. This book is about a girl named Tally,she is an ugly. Tally has to go on a trip to a place called the smoke and betray one of her best friends to become pretty. On her trip Tally made new friends and also an emamy.In the end Tally learned to love the herself the way she was and no longer wanted to be pretty. Uglies are a group of people who society considers ugly. There are multiple different classes though. first there are littlies…

afterimage of the flash, trying to force her exhausted brain to think. She realized now that this had never been a simply a matter of answering questions. They had always wanted her to spy, and infiltrator. She wondered how long this had been planned.” (Westerfeld 130). This is important because it starts Tally’s conflict with herself and if she wants to choose her dreams over her friends. If she chooses her dreams, she will betray her friends, and this pendant can ruin so much for her friends.…

Tally Youngblood is the main character in Scott Westerfield’s Uglies; Her characterization advances the theme of inner strength in the story. Tally is blackmailed into betraying her friend. Dr. Cable, a woman of high rankings, refuses to grant Tally permission to undergo a surgery to make her gorgeous unless Tally betrays her friend Shay. Tally is given orders to search for and uncover a secret society specified as the Smoke. Tally is a vulnerable, young girl whose only wish is to be…

Are You Infected? “No way! Not Possible! All lies!” Those are the words I want to say to save the faces of humanity, but unfortunately, what the authors wrote about in swollen expectation is true for many. De Graaf, Wann, and Naylor compare our “lot more stuff and much higher material expectations than previous generations did” to an diseases that will continue to spread and swell our expectations more (De Graaf, Wann, Naylor). What these authors said was an overstatement; one that did not…