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Sarah Weising Mr. Kreft Academic English 12 3/20/10

__ Plot Overview: __ The book is called Uglies by Scott Westerfeild. It is about this girl named Tally that was best friends with this boy named Peris, but once he got older he became a “pretty”. That is when he would go under surgery and they would give him new skin hair and eyes and change is personality and flaws. So when he would get out of surgery he would be a different person, and be a pretty and live in the town of the pretties instead of living with the uglies in Uglieville. But when Peris moved he would leave Tally behind, and she wouldn’t be able to see him again. With his new life he wouldn’t have the time or chance to write to her or come see her in Uglieville. Tally wasn’t permitted to go to Pretty town just because she was ugly. But Tally would stay up every night thinking about the conversations they would have together and what they would talk about and how he would look, but she couldn’t go over to Pretty town to see him she was ugly and ugly people weren’t allowed to be over on the other side of town. Tally had to see him though; she couldn’t take the endless nights and days of being alone without her best friend. She went to pretty town. She snuck in wearing a pig’s mask so people wouldn’t know she was ugly, and then she saw him he was so shocked and didn’t really notice her; he was upset that she came to his house to see him. He didn’t want her to be seen by anyone and he forced her to leave. When she left and was on her way home she ran into a girl named Shay that was ugly, they talked and understood where each other was coming from and they both had the same birthday so they both would turn pretty at the same time. Shay then decides to leave town right before her birthday because she doesn’t want to become pretty. When Shay and tally’s birthday approaches Tally goes to Dr. Cable to get her surgery done but he tells her she can’t get her surgery done until she runs away to Smokes like how Shay did. Tally has to take tracking device with her so they could track her down as she goes. When Tally goes to Smokes she has a whole new life changing experiment. She puts herself and gets herself in to life threatening danger. But once she gets to Smokes she starts to like the place and people. Also she falls in love with the owner’s son of Smokes. His name is David, when tally starts to fall in love with him she wants to destroy her tracking device so the Pretties can’t find her. But when Tally tries to destroy the tracker it only activates it. The Pretties send a bunch of people out to go track down the uglies in Smokes, and when they find Smokes they take all the uglies back to Pretty Town to get surgery done to become pretty. Tally betrayed her friends and the people of Smokes. When she tries to free everyone from the Pretties it would be too late, because Shay would have already gotten the surgery done and she was pretty along with Az who was David’s father the owner of Smokes they try and give him the surgery but he dies. And then she took the fall to become a pretty. __ Character List: __ Tally: She is the main character that lives in Uglieville. She lost her best friend because he turned pretty because he was older then her. She talked to know one else, and she couldn’t wait to be pretty. She had big fluffy hair, a big nose, pale skin. Shay: She was an ugly too, and she met Tally in Pretty town where they both shouldn’t have been. She was lonely, and wanted a friend. She started at other people living life instead of watching herself live life. She has a really outgoing personality and she really didn’t want to become a pretty so she decides to run away to Smoke. Peris: He used to be ugly, and once he got older. He transformed into a pretty. Once moving to Pretty town he stopped talking to his old friends, and he basically had a new life. His personality changed in a way that he presents himself as being fuller of himself and doesn’t want to be seen with anyone that is lower than him.

__ Important Quotations Explained: __ // ”Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.” // (Uglies by Scott Westerfeild pg 210) It is ok not to be perfect, people always need help with different things and challenges it all depends on how you look at them and how you put yourself in the situation. // “ It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them.And when we ask for help. ” //  (Uglies by Scott Westerfeild pg 19y) We forget about our past and forget what we are given in life and we only make ourselves able to see what we can change or create of ourselves. It’s like we could never be perfect the way we are because we always feel like something isn’t good enough but in someone else’s eyes what your traits and flaws are they see them as perfection and they love every aspect of you. // “ What you do, the way you think, what makes you beautiful ”  //  ( Uglies by Scott Westerfeild pg 311) Its your inner beauty that makes you who you are. You can change you look and hair style and make up to make you be the most beautiful person in the world but how you act and the way you talk and hose you present yourself makes you who you truly are. And if you try and change all you are doing is putting on a costume but under that costume the true you will always shine no matter what. __ Study Questions and essay topics: __ __ What is the main meaning to this book? __ This book shows that you can be whoever you want to be and look however you want to look without thinking you aren’t good enough. It also really shows off how you should never be embarrassed of how you look and sometimes it is better to look natural and not have make up or fancy clothing on. Your beauty should shine even when you’re wearing sweatpants and a sweat shirt. And it shows that there is more to people then just there looks and sometimes looks take over the personality of most people. __ What does Shay try to state in this novel and how does she go about doing it? __ Shay shows that you don’t have to be beautiful to be happy and liked. Shay has a great personality and kind of how I took it a tom boy look to her and that makes easy to get along with and like able. She goes about showing this throughout the novel by saying that she wasn’t sure if she wanted to become a Pretty. It’s like she saw what the Pretties did and how they acted toward each other and the Uglies and she didn’t want to be like them. Also when Shay ran away from home and going to Smoke, It was right before her birthday and Shay wasn’t ready to have such a dramatic change to her look. She was extremely happy the way she was and you could tell she didn’t want it any other way. __ What does Shay leave behind for Tally before she runs away, and how does Tally feel about it? __ Right before Shay leaves to runway from her birthday and becoming pretty. She stops off at Tally house to try and convince her to go. Tally refuses to go with her but Shay leaves a note behind giving her instructions on how to get to Smoke where Shay will be. But Tally wasn’t going to go and when her birthday came around she still had to opportunity to go but she didn’t want to all Tally wanted to do was to be pretty and live in Pretty town with her best friend Peris. Once getting to Dr. Cables and when he told her he had to run away to Smoke she did because she still had the passion to become s Pretty but once she got there her whole life turned around and she started to love herself for her and not caring about beauty.