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.