Scott Westerfeld

In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the story is about a world filled with Uglies that transition into 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…

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is about a world where everybody is eager to turn 16. They all are so eager to turn 16 because when you get there, that's when you turn “Pretty”. The kids turn pretty from a surgery that they receive. The surgery is really intense, the surgeon's change everything about the person's appearance, they go as far as to rub all their skin off and let it grow back in perfect conditions. In their world, people are split up into three towns, Uglyville, New Pretty Town, and the…

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…

shipwrecked men to die! '" (Westerfeld 227). This book is full of action and suspense that draws readers into the book. All of the action and suspense is because the setting of the book is in Europe when they were on the edge of war and the beginning of World War I. Instead of it being the allies versus the central powers it’s the Darwinists (Britain, France, and Russia) who use fabricated beasts and the Clankers (Germany, and Austria-Hungary) who use walking machines (Westerfeld inside cover).…

The Uglies written by Scott Westerfeld was published by Simon Pulse Publishing on May 2011 and contains 406 pages. The Uglies is a science fiction novel about Tally Youngblood, a teenage girl, living in Uglyville, who is trying to decide the truth of the pretty operation and the importance of her friends. The Uglies is the first of the four books in the Ugly series. Tally Youngblood, the main character in this novel, is a fifteen year old girl that lives in Uglyville. The author makes Tally…

heart with me(i carry it in], and The Third and Final Continent all incorporated a communal theme. The theme of friendships and relationships was developed in the novel, the Uglies as well as two of the ancillary texts. In the Uglies, written by Scott Westerfeld, the statement of friendships are at risk and may be altered when problematic situations occur was expressed. The theme was conveyed through the plot of the novel. Furthermore, E. E. Cummings used figurative language in the poem, [i…

In Scott Westerfeld's dystopian novel Uglies, chapter thirteen is one of the most important chapters and where the conflict begins. This chapter, Special Circumstances, stood out to me because this is where 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…

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…

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…

Tally Youngblood, from the novel Pretties by Scott Westerfeld, just wants to be free. The city has been controlling her ever since she was a littlie and now Special Circumstances has an even tighter hold on her. They made her Pretty and put lesions in her brain so that she is always happy, and always does what she is told. Then something happens and she realizes that she needs to escape. To free herself from the power of the Specials. Tally’s struggle to free herself greatly affects herself, the…