Tally

I. Thesis (64 words) Margaret Tally’s essay, “Something’s Gotta Give,” conveys the idea that although movies about middle-aged women finding love and exploring their sexuality are liberating, often these films relay harmful stereotypes about these same women. Usually, the woman’s sexuality takes a detrimental effect on her family. The message in films have a positive stance on sexuality in old age, yet also approaches the topic with hesitancy. II. Summary (words) Some films tend to lean more…

"Uglies" his main character is one that quickly catches a person's attention. Tally Youngblood is a person who wants nothing more than to fit in with the society that was made up around her and her generation. Tally wants nothing more than to become a "Pretty" yet in order to do that, she has to "save" a friend and rat out a secret hideout for those of whom want nothing to do with being "Pretty" and the society in general. Tally does not know it yet, but she is a cautious conflicted adventurer,…

operation when they turn 16 to be turned from a undereducated ugly, into a beautiful pretty. The main character, Tally, is an average 15 year old girl, who can’t wait to turn pretty and live the pretty life. Two month before she turns pretty, she meets another ugly, Shay, who doesn't want to follow the cities rules and wants to stay ugly forever. As their birthdays near, Shay tries to convince Tally to come with her to Smoke, an outside town where people don’t have to follow the cities…

Prettys. The main character Tally Youngblood's 16th birthday is coming up and she is scared to have the operation to turn Pretty. Tally's best friend Peris is a few months older than her and has already turned pretty and she misses him. So she decides that she is going to go outside of Uglie Town and go to New Pretty Town to see Peris. On her way back from seeing Peris, she meets Shay, a daredevil that is not scared of anything. Shay and Tally get really close when Shay tells Tally about the…

the pretties and how the operation turned them to be clueless about the past. My two favorite characters in this book are Tally ( the main character) and…

opinions about The Uglies Series. The Uglies Series changed me as it made me think that we are all unique and that we are all different. In Uglies, Tally is bullied because she was an ugly and was not old enough to get the operation that would have turn her into a pretty. Uglies have many rules to follow, all uglies have a curfew while pretties…

turn themselves pretty. In doing so, they gain freedom and become acceptable in society’s eyes. Tally Youngblood is a girl with no confidence and sees the surgery as an escape. However, her friend Shay is extremely self confident and does not understand the point of the surgery. Tally and Shay both learn to be more self-confident throughout the different challenges they face in their lives. Tally discovers her self…

In the novel “Uglies” written by Scott Westerfeld, Tally lives in a society where once you turn 16, you get a “pretty surgery”. Until the age of 16, you are an “ugly” and treated differently than “pretties”. Tally struggles to find the real meaning of beauty and she battles her want to undergo the surgery. She discovers herself and what she wants by stepping out of her comfort zone and taking risks. With each risk Tally takes, she grows as a person. She finds that taking risks can have both…

the action starts and Tally begins to realize that the pretty life might not be the best life. This chapter fits into the story as a whole because this is where the specials start getting involved and this is where the conflict begins. In this chapter, Tally starts to to question being pretty when the specials threatened to keep her pretty just because she kept a promise to her friend. This chapter adds to the plot of the story because it begins the conflict between Tally and the society. The…

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…