Tally

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 great importance to many of the characters. Having beautiful features is not what’s truly important in life. Having a beautiful heart and mind is what actually matters. Appearance was the underlying theme of the story for many reasons. Tally was one of the characters who delineated appearance as something very important to her. The society that Tally was raised in taught the children to look up to the pretties. The thought…

in her body and she had a different mindset. Tally was going to be pretty, but to get there she has to risk her life, just to change her face. To get what you want in life one has to endure a lot, just to get one’s way. Tally, the main character in Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, is a regular citizen of Uglyville but as she is about to turn pretty she has to report something that is close to her heart and her friends heart. Tally’s main concern is being pretty, but has to endure hardship, fear, and…

Tally Youngblood is the main character in Scott Westerfield’s Uglies; Her characterization advances the theme of inner strength in the story. Tally is blackmailed into betraying her friend. Dr. Cable, a woman of high rankings, refuses to grant Tally permission to undergo a surgery to make her gorgeous unless Tally betrays her friend Shay. Tally is given orders to search for and uncover a secret society specified as the Smoke. Tally is a vulnerable, young girl whose only wish is to be…

The theme of the book or novel, Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld is about making hard decisions. Tally had to make decisions but if she chose the wrong option, it would affect her life. The first hard decision Tally had to choose was not to get in trouble and become pretty with Peris. Or have a chance of getting in trouble but having fun with Shay. The second decision Tally had to make was to find the Smoke and not become pretty, or not find the smoke and never become pretty. The third decision…

Once upon a time in a far away land, there was a book named Tally. Tally was an old book that had been around for nearly 17 years. Although she told stories of faraway lands, adventures with compelling characters and an unexpected ending, she was very underappreciated. Over the 17 years, Tally went through garage sales, bookstores, and libraries, all to be left on the counter waiting for someone new to take her. Tally was a large red book that had a long pen mark down the middle of her cover,…

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 seem skinny super athletic…

created in cooperative learning environments (Wong, H., & Wong, R.., p. 254). Cooperative learning also has the effect of students taking the responsibility in “helping one another with assignments and problems (Wong, H., & Wong, R., 2005, p. 254). Thus, taking some of the pressure off of teachers “to maintain order and to keep the students on task” (Wong, H., & Wong, R.,2005, p. 254). One of the first rules that I will have students follow is to always stay on task when assignments in class…

The day of the operation came and Tally didn’t know what to feel. Tally just wanted the surgery over with even though it is pain free she wasn’t too sure about it. The hospital car finally showed up she was asked a couple questions then put into the car. Tally was put in a waiting room at the hospital where she could only think about what Shay told her about not becoming a pretty. She counted the ceiling tiles as she waited, then a middle aged man came to the room. 9- “Sixteen years, Finally.”…

Westerfeld, the main character Tally feels this way. Throughout the book, Tally has people laughing or being shocked about the actions that is being done or has brought to the area. Tally thinks that both people in both civilizations will act the opposite way of how they really had reacted. Tally has both the pretties and Uglies react to her actions when special circumstances comes and Tally is caught in front of everyone, being caught by the pretties in one of the apartment buildings in New…

represent grit and determination by characters in the book Uglies, such as Tally Youngblood. Uglies is a dystopian type novel set in the future, written by Scott Westerfeld. It features a sixteen year old girl, named Tally Youngblood. Tally, had lived in a society where the majority of the people had cosmetic surgery to enhance beauty when they reach sixteen-years-of-age. So when Special Circumstances seized her only opportunity of undergoing surgery, she reluctantly agreed to navigate through…