Blog Post #52

If you were Tally, would you ask the Warden to make you pretty? Well, yes I would, if I was already stuck with the plan. It would be much faster than going back to the dorm. It probably made it so much easier and so much faster than the alternative. I would just want to get it over with.

Blog Post #51

I don't think Tally will regret it. She should be happy that she has finally told him the truth, and if he doesn't like her for it, then that's fair because she did something horrible. I don't think David will change his mind about her though. He knows that she didn't mean to do it.

Blog Post #50

Should Maddy have forced Shay to take the cure? Why or why not?

Yes of course she should have! Who cares if they think you are just as bad as Dr. Cable? As long as you're doing the right thing, why does it matter? She should have given it to Shay. I think she just wanted Tally to go to New Pretty Town.

Blog Post #49

If you were Shay, would you get the cure? Why or why not?

Well of course I would want to, but I know I would probably act just like Shay because they would have changed my mind for me. Right now I'm saying heck yes, and Shay would be saying the same if she was still ugly. Really, if I was pretty, it wouldn't really be my choice, it would be the lesions' choice to whether or not I would get the cure. And the lesions choice would definitely not be to get rid of itself.

Blog Post #48

"Tally thought of the lesions on Shay's brain, the tiny cancers or wounds or whatever they are that she didn't even know she had. They were in there somewhere changing her friends thoughts, warping her feelings, gnawing at the roots of who she was."

This means that Tally misses her friend, no matter how mad she was at her, Tally missed her. She couldn't believe what had happened to Shay. It was all wrong. The real Shay would never think like that. And it was all Tally's fault. The only thing Tally could do was hope that Maddy had come up with a cure for the lesions.

Blog Post #47

Chronological Order of "Rescue"

1. Shay is already pretty.

2. David knocks out Dr. Cable.

3. Tally argues with Shay.

4. They unlock the Smokies.

5. Shay delays Dr. Cable's callers.

6. Everyone goes to the roof.

7. David's mom tells David that Az is dead. (That's the kicker.)

Blog Post #46

The quote, "Radiology. Neurology. Magnetic Imaging," she read softly."Operating Theatre Two." is a play on words, but it does have a deeper meaning because these words have to do with the operation. Neurology is the study of the brain, and that shows that Tally is kidding about the operation and the room names because they mess with your brain.

Tally and David find rooms called the Interrogation Room 1 & 2 which are probably used to get information out of people. Isolation Room 1 is probably a room to keep people away from each other so that they can't make up a story. Disorientation Room 1 is probably a room to make you forget your old life, and the Morgue is probably where they keep dead bodies.

Shay was a pretty at the end of the chapter. Pg. 338 "She was tall and elegant, every feature perfection." Pg.338 "Her eyes-deep and soulful, flecked with copper and gold- widened with a troubled look."

Blog Post #45

If I had one chance to post a message important to me, it would be,"Sorry Coach Roberts, but I can't run tomorrow, my doctor advises against it." I would post this because I don't feel like getting last place on the twenty four hundred, and really dislike long distance.

Blog Post #44

Tally was similar to these uglies because they weren't afraid to play tricks because they had nothing better to do. Now Tally is playing tricks because her friends lives (or brains) depend on it. She has changed from someone that didn't know who she was, to someone that is determined to win. And just living in the wild relying on her own skills and wits has made her sure of herself.

Blog Post #43

I think Tally's plan will work because she knows the specials well. Tally wants to save the Smokies so that she can tell David that she destroyed the Smoke when she has done one good thing for him. I think her feelings are valid because she does owe him for destroying his whole life.

Blog Post #42

How do David and Tally describe the Rusties? Is it accurate?

They describe them as people that never even existed, like its just a story. They say that they were dumb and made many, many mistakes. Here's a direct quote: "They shrug and say that all their mistakes just kept adding up, until it all collapsed like a house of cards."

What are weaknesses of OUR society? We rely on fossil fuels for everything. We rely on them to heat our homes, store our foods, and run our cars. It is definitely a weakness of our society.

What are weaknesses of their society? They expect everyone to follow the rules, and don't make it too hard to break into anywhere because they expect everyone to be a bubblehead.

Blog Post #41

The 1900 hurricane in Galveston was a devastating disaster, and we were definitely not prepared for it.

Those who managed, either by sheer luck or the grace of God, to survive the storm faced the challenge of moving forward.

In his memoirs, meteorologist Isaac Cline referred to the morning after the storm as "a most beautiful day."

It was indeed a sunny, warm day, the kind of day people came to Galveston for at the turn of the century. But few visitors would walk the sandy shores for months after the infamous hurricane.

Instead, bodies of the dead that were improperly buried at sea washed ashore on those beaches, leaving even more treacherous work for the cleanup crews.

The storm left behind a legacy that extends across the country. As families moved from the island, they carried with them the story of that night.

picture: house.jpg Taken from: http://www.1900storm.com/storm/index.lasso

Blog Post #40

The irony is that Tally only had the victory of escaping her own allies. She had also destroyed everyone's home. Really, she hadn't done anything to help either side, no matter how hard she tried, it all evened out. She worked at the Smoke, and she gave the Smoke away.

Blog Post #39

Is David right? Is Tally amazing? Do you think she should be feeling guilty? Why or why not?

Tally is pretty amazing because she traveled across the wild, and she escaped the specials. Tally may be amazing, but that does not excuse her from the fact that she betrayed her friends. I believe she should feel guilty. She is getting complements even though she is the cause for so many people's home being destroyed.

Blog Post #38

Who is the voice in the dark? Will they be a friend or foe? What will Tally do now?

I think the voice is David, and knowing David, he will be nice to Tally. He would never blame her for this. Tally will probably try to save her friends now.

Blog Post #37

Explain what self preservation means to you. Is it important? Would you lie because of it?

I would never betray everyone just to save my own skin. Self preservation sometimes means to betray people, so I don't find it extremely important, but if it doesn't involve me hurting anyone, I wouldn't mind being popular. Who would? But it all depends on how big of a lie it would be for me to say yes or no. If it was a white lie, then yes. If it was a bigger lie, I would probably say no. I would never betray others.

Blog Post # 36

Tally changed her mind, but whose side is she on?

I think Tally will try to save her friends, making it obvious that she is on the smokies' side. Right now, though, she has to pretend she is on the city's side to have any chance of escape. She has to escape before they turn her pretty, or they turn any of her friends pretty.

Blog Post #35

"Invasion"-Is this the climax of the book? Why or why not?

I don't think this is the climax of the book mostly because the book is almost a hundred pages longer. I also think that Tally would never let Shay end up pretty, even if Shay hates her guts. Tally owes it to her friends to save them because she's the one that got them into this mess in the first place.

Blog Post #34

"What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful."

My dad is beautiful to me because he is smart, funny, and nice. He works hard, but still finds time to play backyard football with us. He is almost always smiling, even when he's tired out. Whenever he is around, you can tell everyone is happier.

Another person that is beautiful is Jennifer Dennington. She is the sweetest person you will ever meet, and you can tell it's not her just trying to suck up to you. She is naturally just one of the nicest people you will ever meet.

Blog Post #33

"Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look... it changes the way you think." I would want to change my habit of chewing on the end of my pencil. I would always wear the right clothes and say the right things. (I really never do that!) Taller people command more respect, but you can't always reach the cupboards when you're short. Being short isn't that bad though, I still win at the limbo and get underestimated. I would probably stay short.

Blog Post #32

What does this quote tell you about the city and society in general?

"But you do know about genetics don't you? Sure I know all about genes. I knew two sisters, uglies, who looked almost the same. But parents and children? That's just weird."

This quote tells me that the city changes people's looks so drastically that their real genes that are passed on to their children aren't even recognizable anymore. Society wanted everyone to look so perfect, they got rid of anything unique.

I think being pretty means that you forget most of the things you do as an ugly. Peris used to laugh at the pretties, but once he turned into one, he thought they were awesome. I think they change your mind for you.

Blog Post # 31

Imagery, Personification, and a Simile

Simile Pg. 246

"He took the world more seriously than any ugly she'd ever met- more seriously, in fact, than middle pretties like her parents."

Personification Pg. 245

"Tally looked away, trying to drown her in uncanny pretty feelings in the sea of white weeds."

Imagery Pg. 245

"In the valley below, the orchids glowed with pale malevolence in the moonlight, a frozen sea against the dark shore of the forest."

Does it require bravery to meet David's parents? Why or why not?

Yes it does require bravery because Tally doesn't know what to expect. She knows that they used to be pretty,but they changed themselves back. She also doesn't know how to interact with other people's parents because she never has before.

Blog Post #30

Do you think Shay has a right to be jealous of Tally? Why or why not?

I think she does have a right to be jealous of Tally, but she doesn't have the right to be mean to her. Tally supposedly came just to be with Shay, and David fell in love with her. It wasn't exactly Tally's fault. She never meant to hurt Shay, she just came because she had to.

On valentine's day, I received a huge present from a person at school, and everyone was jealous. (That never happened. Not many people get jealous of me for anything.)

Blog Post #29

Why would it have been easier for Tally to have activated the pendant when she got there? Explain.

If she had activated the pendant when she first got there, she wouldn't have figured out how much people loved their new home in the Smoke, and she wouldn't have known how much she liked it there too. She also wouldn't have known David's secret. Now its not just getting rid of a little town, its getting rid of someone's whole life.

Blog Post #28

I think David's parents ran away because they messed something up on someone's operation. Maybe they even found the city's weak link and were forced to run away from the specials.

Textual evidence:

"The cities are like these boulders. They may seem solid, but if you start messing with them, the whole pile could crumble." Pg. 216 Uglies

Blog Post #27

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This picture is beautiful because it shows that not all of the world is covered in concrete. There is beauty outside of the city, you just have to look around to find it. I don't find anything ugly about it, except for the fact that there are not any bathrooms.

Blog Post #26

What do you think about Shay's description of a model? They have a skewed view of our time, but what have they got right?

They were right that most of the fat people in the magazines were comedians, even though that is a generalization. Since the pictures were in magazines, they would definitely have a bad view of models and people from our time. This is because magazines always put embarrassing photos of people in them. Well, they said that some models weren't that pretty, and they got that right. They were the closest to being pretty, but they made themselves way too skinny.

Blog Post #25

Characterization-David

-has a big nose

-wears his own hand made clothes

-has a scar that goes through his eyebrow

I chose this picture to be the Smoke because they live in the wild with trees. They also live in log houses. I couldn't find a picture with a log house and an open fire, so I settled for the log house.

Found at: http://i.b5z.net/i/u/1637731/i/bathhouse_ezr.jpg

Blog Post #24

Chronological order:

-Tally wakes up because the flowers are on fire.

-She realizes the machine that cut her sleeping bag made the fire.

-She tries to escape, but they take her to the machine.

-They tell her that the flowers took over, and they're burning them to try to control them.

-They drop her off at a spot near the Smoke.

-Tally finds the bald hill, and waits.

Respond to the Quote:

"... Tally was stuck out here in the wild forever. Ugly for life. Her only way home was to betray her friend."

This quote shows that Tally is still indecisive about whether to betray Shay. She really doesn't want to be ugly anymore, but I think friendship will win in the end. Tally probably won't rat out her friend.

Blog Post #23

One example of imagery, personification, and a simile:

Imagery:

Pg. 173

"The brittle stems of flowers crunched under her shoes, and the heat coming off the scorched earth stung her eyes."

Personification:

Pg. 172

"Fingers of it [fire] shot up the hill, leaping from one beautiful flower to another."

Simile

Pg. 172

"At first there was a sound like roaring wind in her dreams."

Blog Post #22

I think the flying machine was a helicopter even though they don't use them anymore in the book. Its description reminds me of one. I think it is going to the smoke. I also think people from the smoke are in it. Maybe even David is in it.

Blog Post #21

I have made myself do something that I didn't want to because I knew I had to. That certain something was cross country. I enjoyed running at first, but when it came to the race, it was the hardest thing I had ever done. I didn't want to run the races because of this reason, but I knew I had to, or else the coach would yell at me for not finishing. It wasn't fun, but I enjoyed getting the medals.

Predict what you think will happen next.

I think that Tally will make it to the Smoke, but will be too chicken to rat out her friend Shay. She has been having second thoughts about carrying out the plan. I think she will ultimately decide to stay there.

Blog Post #20

I would invent a food called "Wing-It." It would be chicken wings with a honey barbeque sauce. You would put dried chicken wings and a packet of barbeque flavored sauce in the water purifier, and viola, you have a nice meal of Natalie's world class "Wing-It!"

If I were forced to leave my home like Tally was, I would miss:

1.My shower

2.My T.V.

3.My Parents (Even though Tally didn't have that kind of a relationship with her parents, I would miss mine.)

4.My friends (I do have a lot of them no matter what my big brother says.)

5.My comfy bed

Blog Post #19

Tally ultimately decides to figure out where Shay is because she decides that she wants to become pretty. She had made a promise to Peris, and she decided to keep it.

Blog Post #18

Chronological order of important events from "infiltrator."

-The hovercar picks Tally up and brings her to the Special Circumstances buildings.

-Tally explains about Shay's note, and they tell Tally that they already have a copy of it.

-They tell her that she must find the smoke because the directions are only readable by her.

-Dr. Cable reminds her that she will die ugly for all she cares, and Tally agrees to go.

Blog Post #17

I think Peris comes back to visit Tally because he wants to become popular by using her and her amazing stories. Textual evidence:

"You'll have to tell me all about it. But don't you dare tell anyone else. Not Yet. Everyone's going to be so intrigued." Peris is worried that Tally will tell someone else, and tells her not to. He is also convinced that everyone will be intrigued. He definitely wants steal her popularity.

Blog Post #16

Respond to the quote:

"Everywhere she went, eyes looked away. But it was the most visible she'd ever felt."

I think that Tally was embarrassed that people wouldn't look at her, but she was also happy that she was getting attention. Everyone knew she was supposed to be gone, so they knew there was something wrong. Tally was sure of it. She also knew that people were paying attention to her, but it was the wrong kind of attention. It was the attention you get when you pee your pants when you're grown up. People are laughing at you, but they also feel kind of bad for you. No one wants that kind of attention, my brother told me so.

Blog Post #15

Summary of "Special Circumstances"

Tally arrived at a compound called special circumstances

that had a lot of mean looking pretties, and she was forced into Dr. Cable's room. Dr. Cable asks

Tally questions, and she has a hard time answering and protecting her friend. It turns out that

they knew Shay had run away to go to the Smoke, a community out in nature.

Tally was going to their way in. They then told Tally that Shay was in a gang of kids who

disappeared, and that Shay had chickened out. Tally was a little surprised at this. Dr. Cable threatened that

Tally would be ugly forever if she didn't cooperate.

Characterization:

Dr. Cable

-a cruel pretty

-nose was aquiline

-sharp teeth

-non-reflective gray eyes

-voice with neutral cadence

Blog Post #14 B

Summary of "Operation" Pg. 96

Tally talked to some new uglies about how she was going to be a pretty soon. That sparked memories about Shay and how she ran away. Tally packed and got picked up by a hover car. They landed at the hospital and she sat in the waiting room for a long while. A strong man walked up and told her that there were going to be complications with her operation. Uh-oh Spaghetti-O's!!!!

Blog Post #14 A

"We don't have to look like everyone else, Tally, and act like everyone else. We've got a choice. We can grow up any way we want."

I think it means that you get to choose who you are, not get thrown into it. You have a choice about who you want to be. Just like I chose to be silly, and my brother chose to be a nerd. It's your own choice, and if you're not that smart, like my brother, you get stuck with a bad decision. Just like my brother did.

Blog Post #13

Two fights were presented in this chapter. Compare and contrast them. Why did they Take place?

The first fight was a fake fight to scare all the new uglies because Tally and Shay were about to leave. Tally pretended to knock Shay off of one of the library's higher floors, and Shay fell with a bungee jacket on, scaring the uglies there. Then as they celebrated, Shay got mad at Tally when she started talking about turning pretty. Shay then left. The differences are that the first fight was a fake fight, not hurting anyone. The second fight wasn't on purpose. The similarities were that in both fights, Shay was being unreasonable, and they parted ways for a little while.

Blog Post #12

"That was one thing about being outside the city; It made all that nature stuff they taught in school seem a lot more useful. She remembered now how rainwater fell on the mountains and soaked into the ground..."

The quote from Uglies, above, tells me that living outside the new cities is just like camping or living outdoors. It's nothing at all like living the way we do now. It shows you just how disassociated with the real world they have become.

Blog Post #11

Tally and Shay hover boarded through the rusty, rotted town over to the roller coaster. Shay got on the roller coaster, and hover boarded away. Tally followed Shay, who was following crazy swerves on her hover board. Near the end of the track, there was a piece missing on the drop off. Shay and Tally free-fell until their boards met metal and they started to hover again. Tally was so horrified, she got mad. Even though it was terrifying, Tally enjoyed it. Shay then tells Tally that someone lives out here, and shay wants to show him to Tally.

Two similes in this chapter:

"It's like a track." (the roller coaster) Pg.63

"But they had become as useless as the board, just heavy strips of steel dragging her toward the ground." Pg. 65

Blog Post #10

In this chapter Tally says, "I kind of like being fooled about some things."

I would rather know the truth because then you would have a different perspective of the situation. You probably wouldn't make as many stupid mistakes if you knew the truth. I think it's all around better to know the truth.

It is interesting to note that whitewater rafting was one of the earliest forms of transportation. It was not only used for carrying people but also for transferring goods from one place to another. However, it became quite popular as a form of leisure activity in the 1980s.

In 1811, the first recorded attempt to navigate the Snake River in Wyoming was planned by the Overland Astorians. While attempting to boat the stretch below Jackson Hole, the river was found to be too treacherous and it came to be called ?Mad River.?

The rubber river raft is believed to have been invented in the early 1840s. It was first made by Lt. John Fremont, who was then serving in the U.S army and Horace H. Day. They invented the rubber raft with the intention of surveying the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains. Although the raft was invented in the mid-nineteenth century, it was not until the turn of the century that the first ever commercial whitewater trip was undertaken. At first, surplus military rafts were used as boats and it was only much later that inflatable rafts were used.

http://ezinearticles.com/?History-of-Whitewater-Rafting&id=276992

Blog Post #9

The rusty ruins are normal buildings that "uglies" or normal people made a long time ago. They have buildings, I think they have roller coasters, and pretty much everythimg else we have today, but it's all rusty and run down. It's abandoned. During that time, no one was a "pretty", they were all normal, like today. People there were killed because of skin color and were judged on appearance, just like today.

My definition of peer pressure is when your friends or aquaintances pressure you to do something good or bad.

My most recent experience happened this month when Amanda, Kensley and Mrs. Sass found out that I wasn't going to do track. They kept trying to force me to do it, and Mr. Smothers overheard. Now I've got a bucketful of people pressuring me to do track. I think I'm going to have to do track.

Blog Post #8

Quote Reflections on Uglies

"Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun."....

"This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves."

I think that it was Shay who said that. She was feeling bad because it reminded her of what she looked like, and that she wasn't perfect. She didn't think it was right to create a game that made you into someone better looking.

"Everyone judged everyone else based on their appearance. People who were taller got better jobs....people killed one another over stuff like having different skin color." (referring to when everyone was ugly)

I think that even though those things happen, people are unique in their own way. Appearance is always one thing that is different about everyone. Making everyone pretty didn't need to happen if we could all get along.

"It's the only way to make everyone equal." (becoming pretty)

People were equal before they were turned pretty. They just weren't treated equally. Just because someone is different, it doesn't mean that they aren't as good as you. They were so eager to make people equal, they didn't realize we already were.

Blog Post #7

They use hover boards in Bedtime Stories. They use them duel to see who gets to be the manager of the new hotel. This duel takes place in zero gravity. Here is the URL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfMjMoYLA-M&feature=related

I think the new pretties don't come back to Uglyville to visit because they enjoy looking at great looking people, not uglies. They were turned pretty, and they thought they were better than the uglies. They don't want to ruin their reputation by going back.

Blog Post #6

Chapter summary of "Shay"

Tally is fleeing the crime scene, but it is hard to weave through the middle Pretties that were called in to search for her. She is ready to make a dash toward where she crosses the river when she sees someone in the shadows, and guesses it's a guard. She is prepared to surrender when she realizes it is another Ugly. Her name is Shay. They talk for a while, and then cross the river. Shay uses her hover board to do this. This is a new way to cross for Tally, and she becomes interested.

Shay is like Tally in a lot of ways. She sneaks out to spy on the New Pretties, and I think they will become good friends while waiting to become Pretties.

Blog Post #5

I think New Pretty Town advocates bungee jumping because it isn't what people would normally do. It's out of the ordinary and thrilling. They also bungee jump to get off of the building for fire drills.

Bungee has quite an old origin. The idea of this way of jumping comes from the ancient ritual "Gkol" performed in the Pentecost Island in the Pacific Archipelago of Vanuatu. The legend says that in the village Bunlap a man called Tamalie had a quarrel with his wife and she ran away and climbed a Banyan tree where she wrapped her ankles with liana vines. When Tamalie came up to her, the woman jumped from the tree and so did her husband not knowing what had his wife done. So he died but the woman survived. The men of Bunlap were very impressed by this performance and they began to practise such jumps in case they got in similar situation. This practice transformed into a ritual for rich yam harvest and also for proving manhood.
Modern bungee jumping as we know it today actually started on the 1st of April ( Fools' Day ) 1979 when group of people from the Oxford University Dangerous Sport Club, impressed by a film about "vine jumpers", jumped from 245-Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. Using nylon braided, rubber shock cord instead of vines, and dressed in their customary top hat and tails, they performed a four man simultaneous jump .The enthysiasts promptly were arrested for this. But at least hit the world press the next day. The new adrenaline mania has been started. The D.S.C. performed many other jumps, including one off the Golden Gate Bridge. In early 1988, A.J. Hackett and Chris Allum, opened the first commercial jump site in Ohakune, New Zealand. Hackett also made a great commercial show in 1987 when he jumped from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0123122/historybungee.htm

Blog Post #4

Tally:

-3 months younger than Peris

-Peris was her best friend before he turned Pretty

-she is an Ugly

-she is daring

-she sneaks over to spy on the Pretties

Peris:

-3 months older than Tally

-is a Pretty

-used to accompany Tally on her trips to spy on the Pretties

Tally and Peris used to be best friends, but now I'm not so sure. They used to have a good relationship, but once Peris moved away, he got used to being a Pretty. He didn't need Tally to have fun. Peris didn't have their best friend mark anymore. He didn't even seem happy to see Tally there. They may have been true best friends, but I think Peris outgrew Tally.

Blog Post #3

Oxymoron- pg. 3-"A few hot air balloons pulled at their tethers against the darkening pink sky, their passengers shooting safety fireworks at other balloons and passing para sailors."

I think Tally chose to wear a mask to hide from the Pretties because she was an Ugly still.

Masks generally are worn with a costume, often so complete that it entirely covers the body of the wearer. Fundamentally the costume completes the new identity represented by the mask, and usually tradition prescribes its appearance and construction to the same extent as the mask itself. Costumes, like the masks, are made of a great variety of materials, all of which have a symbolic connection with the mask's total imagery. Ideally the costume should be seen with the mask while the wearer is in action. Taken from: http://www.anymask.com/historyofmask.html

This relates to Tally's decision because it shows that masks are used to hide people's real faces. That is the way Tally used the mask.

Blog Post #2

No, I have never had a friend like Peris that abandoned my friendship. I've only moved once, and we all keep in touch. Or at least all my good friends and I do.

Interface Ring- tracking device

Toothbrush Pill- a pill you chew that is a substitute for brushing your teeth

Cacophony- loud, unexpected noise

Blog Post #1

I define beauty as a characteristic or quality that someone finds attractive in someone else. Beauty is not just good looks. If everyone was beautiful, no one would be considered beautiful. Just like if you didn't have any bad days, you wouldn't know a good one.

I think Brussels sprouts are ugly because they are ugly looking and so disgusting tasting. They are my least favorite food. I think the rose is beautiful because it has such a pretty color and it smells sweet.

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