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    Uglies Essay

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    Chelsea Dowding-Hopkins Year 9 – Mrs Graham INS essay Uglies by Scott Westerfield One of the main themes in Scott Westerfield’s text Uglies is the conflict teenagers have with where they stand in society and learning to respect and value themselves. Using examples from the text compare them with today’s world for teenagers. Word count: Date Due: Uglies illustrates many issues that young teenagers will go through in life. The reader has an insight of three main characters and their

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    The Uglies Essay

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    I think that the book The Uglies is very similar to our generation now. In the book you are judged by your appearances‚ teens consider themselves awkward and ugly. They also think that the adults do not understand what they go through as kids‚ and everything is different from when they were that age. This is exactly how our generation is now. The book takes place in the future‚ they have hover boards‚ and their whole life is based around “the operation”‚ but besides all of that there isn’t a huge

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    In Scott Westerfeld’s novel Uglies‚ a world ruled by beauty finds their world shaken when a group of young uglies challenge the status quo. All Tally Youngblood has ever wanted is to be pretty; unfortunately for her‚ when her friend Shay runs away‚ Tally is the only one who can find Shay. If Tally does not locate and betray her friend‚ she must face the ultimate consequence: to never be pretty. Westerfeld incorporates personal appearance into Uglies in an attempt to force the reader into acknowledging

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    Karan Sitaram 7th period 8-30-13 Uglies In the novel Uglies‚ Tally Youngblood (ugly) feels she is ugly because society put that label on her. This book helped me in many ways one of them was not judging people just because they don’t compare to my standards. Before I had read this book whenever I saw what I thought was an unbalanced couple where the guy or girl was too pretty for the other. I would tell my brother that they don’t belong together because she’s too pretty for him‚ how did he

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    Uglies Essay Imagine a world where there is segregation based on looks‚ and everyone can either get an operation at age 16 to become an imprisoned pretty or run away before the operation to stay a free ugly. What is better? Being a controlled pretty or a free ugly? Tally Youngblood has to make this decision in Scott Westerfeld’s novel‚ Uglies. In Tally’s futuristic society rejected uglies has an operation at age 16 to adapt perfect looks but in the mean time the patients receive brain lesions which

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    Symbols in "Uglies"

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    is these times that we neglect to see how great our lives already are. This is the theme of Scott Westerfeld’s novel‚ Uglies. Like all great writers‚ Scott Westerfeld supports the theme of his novel with symbolism that is hidden in every character and event. Uglies takes place in futuristic Northern California. In this story‚ society is divided into two main groups‚ the “Uglies” and the “Pretties”. These two groups are separated by a river that runs between their cities. The reader first meets

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    Uglies Novel Essay Grade 9

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    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

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    Ugly Pretty, Or Reality?

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    Ugly‚ Pretty‚ or Reality? Imagine a society of extreme beauty that anyone normal is considered ugly. Although the two classifications of‚ ugly and pretty are viewed as immensely different‚ they have one thing in common. Being in either one these categories causes not only domination of physical appearance‚ but also steals the identity of an individual. The only way out is sacrifice. Westerfield’s dystopian fiction novel‚ Uglies tells the story of an adolescent girl‚ Tally Youngblood‚ who is trapped

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    Ugly Duckling Essay

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    There are six elements of intrinsict of Ugly Duckling. The first element is theme. Theme is the underlying meaning of writing. The theme of this prose is man vs. society. It is man vs. society because the ugly duckling is being left out and made fun of by society. He is being treated differently because he looks different than a normal duckling should look like. He was so stressful and he decided to run away from society and live on his own to try and find his place in the world. The second element

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    you ever wondered what would it be liked if where you live and what you do was based on your looks? Well in the book Uglies‚ by Scott Westerfeld which has 425 pages you can find out how it would be. In the book‚ Uglyville is where all the people who are under 16 live and Pretty Town is the place where everyone older and who has the operation live. Tally Youngblood is your average Ugly who can’t wait to be a pretty where the only thing you have to do is party all night. Her friend‚ Peris is already

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