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    The book I read was Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. The main character, Tally, changes greatly throughout the book. The story starts off with her sneaking into New Pretty Town, where all the new pretties stay after their surgery. She runs into another ugly there. Her name is Shay, but she doesn’t have the usual mindset that all uglies have. She doesn’t see why becoming a pretty is so wonderful. She just wants to stay who she is. Tally, on the other hand, has always wanted to become a pretty ever…

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    Uglies Book Report

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    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…

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    This novel Uglies by Scott Westerfeld focuses on the protagonist Tally and the antagonist Dr. Cable, who are citizens in a futuristic society that takes place 300 years from now in a city. In the second half of the novel, Tally finally reaches the Smoke. However, she does not call Dr. Cable to tell her she has arrived safely, instead she starts to like the Smoke. Tally throws her communicating device in the fire and instead of it demolishing, it activates releasing her location to Dr. Cable…

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    Tally In Uglies

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    All an ugly has ever dreamt of is to be pretty. What does is mean to be pretty? Does it mean just a symmetrical face, exquisite bone structure, and flawless skin? Or is there so much more that is all kept a secret? In Scott Westerfeld’s novel, Uglies, Tally Youngblood is just another ugly longing for her sixteenth birthday on which she is to turn pretty. All is well until she finds out that being pretty isn’t really as beautiful as it seems. Throughout the novel the theme of appearance showed…

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    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 transformed into an attractive woman in the beginning of…

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    In Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, the theme is respect because you have to respect people's opinions even If you don't agree with it. On page 392-393 389, in the book Uglies, Maddy, David's Mother, is talking to Tally about giving Shay pills. "Yeah right. That's what Tally keeps telling me. But you don't understand. "Maddy shook her head. 'Only if she wants to be cured. These are experimental, Tally. We can't give them to someone against their will.' (It is difficult to understand what is…

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    De Graaf Naylor Analysis

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    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…

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    people react differently than you had originally thought? Well in the book the Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the main character Tally feels this way. Throughout the book, Tally has people laughing or being shocked about the actions that is being done or has brought to the area. Tally thinks that both people in both civilizations will act the opposite way of how they really had reacted. Tally has both the pretties and Uglies react to her actions when special circumstances comes and Tally is…

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    In today’s society, teenagers are thought to be lazy and unmotivated. However, that is not the truth. There are many examples that represent grit and determination by characters in the book Uglies, such as Tally Youngblood. Uglies is a dystopian type novel set in the future, written by Scott Westerfeld. It features a sixteen year old girl, named Tally Youngblood. Tally, had lived in a society where the majority of the people had cosmetic surgery to enhance beauty when they reach…

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    Swami Vivekananda said “Every change is being forced upon us.” In Tally’s world no words could be more true. Pretties and Specials are the second and third books in the Uglies series. Within the trilogy the story follows Tally, a young girl who finds out what is truly happening in her society. In Tally’s futuristic city people undergo an operation on their sixteenth birthday to become a “Pretty” the operation alters their looks and their brains. During the operation a lesion is put in everyone’s…

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