Uglies Novel Essay Grade 9
Group Essay on Uglies
By Claire, Tara, Tarah, Genevieve, and Soojin
Introduction:
“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims seems to be our main problem” (Einstein). As humans, we try to achieve perfection, and fail often. We know how to achieve what we want, but when it comes to what we want to achieve, we get very confused. We have been told by sci-fi authors repeatedly that striving for perfection will be the downfall of the human race. In Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the government strives to achieve perfection by sculpting their own illustration of idealism. In any society, individuals judge others’ physical appearance relative to their personal thoughts. The diversity of peoples’ opinions come from individual thoughts untouched by others, but in Uglies, the government believes in perfection being total equality. They believe that uniformity leads to equality in beauty as well as true equality, because beauty biases decisions giving others unfair advantages. Therefore, they strip people’s identities in society for peace and equality within body and mind. The Uglies illustrates that perfection is unattainable in society, body and mind.(we could also use this thesis(The Uglies illustrates that perfection is unattainable when uniformity of society, body and mind is the goal).
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Society is constantly modeling and remodeling a vision of perfection that is unhelpful to the human race. Firstly, a perfect and peaceful society is free of opinions, arguments or diversity. Tally lives in a world with a ‘perfect’ society, and believes what she has been told her entire life: that perfection is total equality and happiness.
“‘[The Rusties] killed one another over stuff like having different skin color.’...‘So what if people look more alike now? It’s the only way to make people equal.’” (Westerfeld 43)
In Tally’s society, the operation is “the only way to make people equal” (Westerfeld 43), and therefore perfect. When performing the
By Claire, Tara, Tarah, Genevieve, and Soojin
Introduction:
“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims seems to be our main problem” (Einstein). As humans, we try to achieve perfection, and fail often. We know how to achieve what we want, but when it comes to what we want to achieve, we get very confused. We have been told by sci-fi authors repeatedly that striving for perfection will be the downfall of the human race. In Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the government strives to achieve perfection by sculpting their own illustration of idealism. In any society, individuals judge others’ physical appearance relative to their personal thoughts. The diversity of peoples’ opinions come from individual thoughts untouched by others, but in Uglies, the government believes in perfection being total equality. They believe that uniformity leads to equality in beauty as well as true equality, because beauty biases decisions giving others unfair advantages. Therefore, they strip people’s identities in society for peace and equality within body and mind. The Uglies illustrates that perfection is unattainable in society, body and mind.(we could also use this thesis(The Uglies illustrates that perfection is unattainable when uniformity of society, body and mind is the goal).
Paragraph 1
Society is constantly modeling and remodeling a vision of perfection that is unhelpful to the human race. Firstly, a perfect and peaceful society is free of opinions, arguments or diversity. Tally lives in a world with a ‘perfect’ society, and believes what she has been told her entire life: that perfection is total equality and happiness.
“‘[The Rusties] killed one another over stuff like having different skin color.’...‘So what if people look more alike now? It’s the only way to make people equal.’” (Westerfeld 43)
In Tally’s society, the operation is “the only way to make people equal” (Westerfeld 43), and therefore perfect. When performing the
Bibliography: * Wyndham, John. "The Chrysalids." London: Penguin Books, 1995. 200. 9 April 2013. * Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies. New York: Simon Pulse, 2005. 6 April 2013. * Thesaurus.com