Tally Youngblood Essays

  • Summary Of Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

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    exemplified through the main character, Tally Youngblood and the setting of Uglyville. Tally is just another fifteen year old ugly, waiting for the day she turns sixteen. She lives in Uglyville, in a dorm shared with all the uglies aged from twelve to sixteen. Once Tally’s birthday comes, she will finally be able to get her surgery, to become pretty. Once her procedure is done, her new, pretty life awaits her in New Pretty Town. The introduction of Tally Youngblood directly reflects the main theme of

  • What Is The Significance Of Tally In Uglies By Westerfeld

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    that's all Tally Youngblood dreamed of as she would look out to new pretty town, but after her best friend Peris had turned pretty Tally soon grew alone, But Tally meets a young girl by the name of Shay who speaks of a place called the ‘Smoke’ where they follow their own rules and of a boy named daved. Tally learns to love herself being the way she is in the ‘Smoke’ and learns of other and there lives but it doesn't last long seeing as this was a very special circumstance soon tally learns the truth

  • Uglies By Scott Westerfeld Sparknotes

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    thought to be lazy and unmotivated. However, that is not the truth. There are many examples in the text that represent grit and determination in characters such as Tally Youngblood. Uglies is a dystopian type novel set in the future, written by Scott Westerfeld. It features an about to be sixteen year old girl, named Tally Youngblood. Tally, had lived in a society where most people have cosmetic surgery to enhance beauty when they reach sixteen-years-of-age. So when Special Circumstances took away her

  • Tally Youngblood Research Paper

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    Tally young blood a young teen anxious to leave Uglyville to live in new pretty town to get her operation to become a pretty, but on her journey an ugly whose name is Shay has different plans .Tally Youngblood has the characteristics of being determined, sneaky, and daring. Like other teens she was raised to follow the system or stages of becoming a woman or a man of perfection. As she will be getting her operation or should I say total make over as everyone else does at age sixteen. Tally is very

  • Book Report Of Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

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    cross the river from Uglyville to New pretty town and live a new life with no responsibilities. Tally Youngblood can’t wait to take her license for turning pretty and to come together with her friend Peris again who already lives in New Pretty Town. Before her birthday Tally goes to the place that Peris lives, Garbo Mansion, to talk with him even for a little bit. When returning back to Uglyville Tally meets a girl named Shay and they become friends.

  • Themes In Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

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    broken for Tally, leaving her threatened to remain an Ugly forever. Scott Westerfeld’s science fiction novel, Uglies, opens in Uglyville, a place where all Uglies live waiting to turn into a Pretty on their sixteenth birthday. Tally, an ordinary Ugly, happens to be one of those who has been waiting to be Pretty her whole life. Unfortunately, this doesn’t happen. A friend of hers, Shay, doesn’t like the idea of turning Pretty, so therefore runs away, leaving Tally to be interrogated. Tally is forced

  • Dystopian Literature: The Hero's Journey

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    arc and how that arc is affected by the character’s gender. Similarly the field of young adult dystopian fiction is still largely unexplored and still developing. By looking at the character of Tally Youngblood one can see that her journey subverts conventional views of a heroine’s journey. Through Tally, the Uglies trilogy invites readers to think about how, in YA dystopian fiction, female characters face internal struggles that are mirrored by the external challenges they face. This is important

  • Foolishness In Uglies

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    uglies who are sixteen are turned to Pretties. However, Tally a sixteen year old Ugly has a problem with getting the operation because her friend ran away. Getting her back is the only way to become a Pretty. She was willing to give up her friend for beauty but regretted it after learning the truth about the operation. By turning pretty not only does your appearance change but so does your mind, the way you think and what you think. Tally destroyed the Smoke because she is a selfish, hesitant, and

  • Tally's Journey To Self-Discovery In Uglies

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    Westerfeld, the society is divided into two. The Uglies, and the Pretties. The main character Tally Youngblood spends her whole life waiting for the day that she will become pretty, until she meets somebody named Shay. Shay has no intention of becoming pretty, and plans to leave the city. After Shay leaves, Tally gets held back by special circumstances and is told she must go outside past the city and find Shay. Tally finds an entire community of people who managed to escape before they turned pretty, and

  • Divergent And Uglies: A Comparative Analysis

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    Divergent and Uglies are two very similar and spectacular dystopian novels. Uglies is a book about people being only accepted into society by how pretty they are. The main character, Tally Youngblood, is undergoing a surgery also known as the pretty surgery. The pretties are the people accepted into society, only because how they look. They live in giant houses and safe neighborhoods. The uglies are normal people who don’t fit into the pretty section either because they can not afford surgery, or

  • What Is The Mla Citation For Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

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    Uglies is a science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld. The book is set in a dystopian world where everyone at the age of 16 gets an operation to be turned from an 'Ugly' to a 'Pretty'. Uglies tells the story of Tally Youngblood who has mixed feelings about becoming 'Pretty'. A character I like in this novel is Shay, a friend of Tally's. I like her because she is different from anyone else in the city of 'Uglyville' and she is not afraid to show it. Shay is completely against the societies system

  • Uglies Westerfeld Sparknotes

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    referred to as “ugly” until the ripe age of 16, where they undergo extensive plastic surgery to become “pretty”, conforming to a standard of beauty set by the government. Although, not everyone feels that this is a good solution. The story follows Tally Youngblood, who initially desires to become pretty but discovers the truth about the operation and what it might cost everyone around her. It explores themes of friendship, betrayal, the power of knowledge and most of all the dangers of societal pressure

  • Book Reports For Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

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    with the name of Tally is about to turn sixteen and is so eager to turn a pretty and move to New Pretty Town to see her best friend, But there is something that stands in her way. Tally meets a girl named Shay and she soon realizes that Shay is no ordinary girl. Shay seems a little different than Tally. Tally loves adventures and when she meets Shay it's almost like they are the same person. Tally was happy but she knew she wanted to become a pretty to see her true best friend. Tally was tired of being

  • Book Report For Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

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    The book Uglies, written by Scott Westerfeld showcases similar conflicts middle schoolers have now. The title, Uglies is what the main character, Tally, is categorized as until she turns 16. After 16 everybody in the community gets surgery to alter their whole body and make them “pretty”. At first, Tally is excited to become beautiful and live with the rest of the pretties, but after her friend Shay shows her that the pretty world is not so pretty, she changes her mind. The title made me think of

  • Levels Of Success In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

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    Sometimes, a goal to be achieved can be reached in a way different to what you’d expected, or you might be ultimately unsuccessful. In many novels, characters experience contrasting levels of accomplishment when trying to get something done. This is the case for multiple scenes in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, which takes place in a future where books are to be burned, and the protagonist, Guy Montag, inevitably starts to question whether books are truly bad. Many times when Montag tries to read

  • Tally Youngblood In Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

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    protagonist; Tally Youngblood, is blinded by the society she lives in that impacts her perspective on her body image. To begin with, Tally goes through a significant development that alters her mind set. Moving on, the time period and locations that take place in the novel assists on exposing Westerfeld’s prominent overall message. Last of all, Tally faces her internal-self and remains between two resolutions that can change her life eternally. Scott Westerfeld reveals

  • James Ullman Suspense

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    Have you ever felt the honor and fame of being #1. In James Ullman short story about an expedition and the 4th highest peak in the world. After while 3 men stick out Osborn the young and honored rookie , Nace the englishman who this is his 6th them climbing K3 and Frank the narrator. Osborn and Nace are racing to be the first to climb K3. The James Ullman uses suspense to see who will be the top man. Ullman uses dialogue to show the suspense to be the top man. For example when Osborn runs away

  • Personal Narrative: A Separate Peace

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    I was going through boxes looking for something, anything that would help me finish this project. My teacher just handed out an essay that we have to do on the history of a family member . My Dad told me if we have anything it would be in the trunk upstairs, but there were only trinkets in the trunk. I resorted to scavenging through the boxes in the attic. I gave up after finding nothing except a picture of some man sitting on a pony. Why it would be in a box in my attic, I have no idea. I blew a

  • Is The Allegory Of The Cave In Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

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    has a tone of a young women named Tally Youngblood who is trying desperately to find her place in the dystopian society. Tally Youngblood life has been cut into two pieces. The society has ordered people into a Ugly or a Pretty. The normal life of a human being has been slated. Tally has been thrown inside the cave that she has to be a Pretty. Being distraught, Tally fights away

  • Personal Narrative: The Truth About Pretty Operations

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    Saturday, runaway Tally Youngblood, and her friends Shay and David, have discovered the truth about the pretty operations. They aren’t so pretty after all. Runaways Dr. Az and his wife Dr. Maddy, parents of David, discover the aftermath of the operation, They found lesions in the brain, tiny cells that don’t belong there. However they are barely visible.