Blog Post #52

If you were Tally, would you ask the warden to make you pretty?

If I were Tally I would have the warden turn me pretty because she thinks she can fix things by doing that.

Blog Post #51

Tally has finally come clean. Do you think she will regret it? Do you think David will change his mind about her?

I don't think she will regret it and I don't think David will change his mind about her because he didn't really even believe her at first when she told him that she was the cause of all of these problems.

Blog Post #50

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

I don't think so because she would't have wanted to and it hasn't been tested.

Blog Post #49

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

If I were Shay I don't think I would take the cure because when she gets cured she will just go back to hating Tally and no one has tested the cure medicine, so it might not even work.

Blog Post #48

Respond to the following quote from the chapter...what does it mean to you? "Talle 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 friend's thoughts, warping her feelings, gnawing at the roots of who she was."

I think it means that since the lesions operation were changing the way she thought and who she was.

Blog Post #47

Give a chronological list of important events in the chapter. What's the kicker at the end of the chapter?

• Tally and David knock Dr. Cable out.
• They rescue the smokies from Special Circumstances.
• They escape through the roofs on their hoverboards, to get away.
  
• The kicker is that Maddie tells David his father is dead.

Blog Post #46

Is this quote a play on words, or does it have a deeper meaning to the story? "Radiology. Neurology. Magnetic Imaging," she read softly. "Operating Theatre Two."

I think it has a deeper meaning to the story because it sounds like thats what you go through in the operating rooms.

What labels do Tally and David find in the Special Circumstances building? Give a brief description of what you think each means.

Radiology: The rooms where the radio waves for the operation are stored.

Neurology: The room where they study the science of the nerves and how to fix the face.

Magnetic Imaging: The room where they take a picture of the current face and add the changes to it from the neurology to see what the yperson will look like.

Operating Theatre Two: The room where the surgery occurs.

Describe Shay's appearance at the end of the chapter using textual evidence>

"Shay was tall and elegant. Her eyes were copper, gold, deep, and soulful. And had every perfect feature. Shay was pretty."

Blog Post #45

In this chapter a few Uglies go to New Pretty Town to do a "trick." They make the words "THE SMOKE LIVES" with sparklers. If you had ONE chance to post a message important to you, what would it be and why?

My one message would be that percussion is beast.

Blog Post #44

The Uglies that met in this chapter are similar to Tally at the beginning of the book. When you compare her to these Uglies, how has Tally changed and what has made her change?

Tally has changed now because she isn't afraid of adventure anymore and she doesn't care about being pretty as much as she used to. I think David and his parents made her change partly.

Blog Post #43

Do you think Tally's plan will work? David wants to save his parents, but what's driving Tally? do you think she is crazy, or are her feelings valid?

I think Tally's plan will work because she seems so determined for it to. I think the thing that's driving Tally is either her guilt, or her will to get her friendship back with Shay. I think her feelings are valid because she likes David a lot, so she wants to help him.

Blog Post #42

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

They say it it stupid and crazy, but that's not totally accurate

What are the weaknesses of our society?

The weaknesses of our society are money, violence, pollution, and the stock market.

What are the weaknesses of their society?

Their weakness was the oil plague.

Blog Post #41

Find information and a picture about a time we weren't prepared. Post the information and cite it.

www.worshippingchristian.org

The Twin Towers: The attack in the World Trade center known as 9 11 was an unexpected death trap. On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists ran their plains into two tall standing structures know as the Twin Towers. This devastating event in which thousands lost their lives caused the United States military to move into Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Middle Eastern countries in the search for the plotter of the attack, Osama Bin Laden.

Blog Post #40

Describe the irony in Tally's "victory" over Dr. Cable. What was lost in the process?

The ironic thing is that tally thinks that she she has won or accomplished something that Dr. Cable hasn't. She has lost some of her friends in the process.

Blog Post #39

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

I don't think Tally is amazing. She has made some big mistakes and so yes I think she should be feeling guilty.

Blog Post #38

Who is the voice in the dark? Do you think it will be a friend or enemy to Tally? What do you think Tally will do now?

I think the voice is David. He is a friend right now, but its possible that he could turn into an enemy later on. I think Tally will tell David the predicament she is in right now.

Blog Post #36

Tally had changed her mind about the smoke and the operation, but what will she about all that now? Whose side is she on?


I think Tally is on the smoke's side. Little did she know that throwing the ring into the fire would call Special Circumstances to the scene. She is now in love with David and I don't think she wants to give that up by turning pretty.

Blog Post #37

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

To me, self preservation means taking care of yourself so that no harm or destruction is done. It is one of the most important things because you need to keep yourself out of harm and danger at all times. I would not lie about it because no one would like a liar.

Blog Post #35

Is this the climax of the story? Explain why or why you don't think so in a few sentences.

Yes, I think this is the climax of the story because Special Circumstances has just arrived. It has been building up in the whole entire story until this point.

Blog Post #34

Read the following quote David says to Tally. "What you do, the way you think makes you beautiful." Name one person in you personal home life and one in your academic life (you may leave them nameless if you wish)... What makes this person beautiful?

Academic: This person has always been there for me and I am still there for her, even though we are not together anymore. She is just an amazing person in every way.

Personal: This person, one of my parents closest friends, is one of the nicest and most caring people I've ever met.

Blog Post #33

Respond to the following quote, what does it mean to you/to the story? "Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look... it changes the way you think." How would you want to change mentally and physically if you were pretty?

It means that when you become pretty, you get good looks, but you get a new way of thinking. The only things I would really want to change would be to make me a whole lot better at math, and make me tolerant of getting up early.

Blog Post #32

What does the following 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 tells me that it's not common for parents and children to look alike. Also, the city changes people so much that they aren't even recognizable anymore.

Predict what you think being "pretty" is.

I think being pretty is getting good looks, but loosing your own way of thinking.

Blog Post #31

Find an example of imagery, personification, simile. Quote directly and give page numbers.

Imagery: "In the valley below, the orchids glowed with pale malevolence in the moonlight, a frozen sea against the dark shore of the forest." Pg. 245

Personification: "Tally looked away, trying to drown her in uncanny pretty feelings in the sea of white weeds." Pg. 245

Simile: "He took the world more seriously than any ugly she'd ever met- more seriously, in fact, than middle pretties like her parents." Pg. 246

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

Yes it does require bravery because she has never met them before and she doesn't really know what they are going to be like.

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 because shay was with David first and he gave Tally a gift that he could have given her.

Tally received a gift from David in the chapter that is special. Have you ever received something that made others jealous as this gift did? Did your gift have a meaning behind it as Tally's did?

Yes. For my thirteenth birthday, my cousin, who lives in California, sent me these really cool electronic drum sticks that you can play to with your i-pod by just drumming in the air. One of my friends came over that day and even though he didn't really say anything, I could tell he was jealous of it and wanted it. These were special because she sent them to me from California and they were very cool.

Blog Post #29

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

I think it would have been easier to activate it because Tally wouldn't be feeling so guilty if she had.

"She wished she'd activated the pendant the moment she'd gotten there. In only one day she'd realized that it wasn't just Shay's dream she was betraying. Hundreds of people had made life in the "smoke." Pg.#225

Blog Post #28

If David's parents were doctors, why do you think they ran away? Support your answer with textual evidence.

I think they ran away because they either wanted to try to find "smoke", so that they could live there.

"They are doctors." "Huh. But...hang on. Doctors? How old were they when they ran away?" "Old enough. They weren't uglies anymore. I think its called being a middle pretty?"

Blog Post #27

The beautiful thing about it is that its reflection shines and sparkles on the surrounding water. There is nothing ugly about it.

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Blog Post#26

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

I think Shay's description of a model is a little bit over exagerated and i dont think she really knows what shes talking about. The thing that they do have right about our time is that everybody does look the same, and the eating disorders was right too.

Blog Post#25

Characterization of David:

1. "He was hardly a pretty."


2. "His smile was crooked." I chose this picture because it shows how there is no technology and how it is old and decaying.
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3. "His forehead is too high."


4. "He wears handmade shoes and clothes."

Blog Post#24

1. Tally wakes up to find that everything is on fire.
2. Tally gets caught in the fire caused by the mysterious hovercraft.
3. She falls in the river and gets saved by the masked/bug-eyed people.
4. The masked/bug-eyed people explain why they are burning the field of flowers.
5. The masked/bug-eyed people drop her off at the spot where she is going to get to "smoke."

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."

If I were Tally, I would think about what I really wanted and if betraying my friend was worth turning pretty.

Blog Post#23

Imagery: "Billowing clouds of smoke surrounded her, blotting out the sky. A ragged wall of flame moved through the flowers, giving off a wave of blistering heat." Page 172

Personification: "She caught glimpses of masked eyes staring at her unblinkingly. Bug eyes."Page 177

Simile: " At first there was a soung like a roaring wind in her dreams." Page 172

Blog Post#22

I think the maching was some type of future helicopter, or airplane. The people in it could have possibly been the ones from "smoke."

Blog Post#21

Have you ever made yourself do something you didn't want to because you knew you had to?

Yes. I have to get up earlier than I ever have had to before for school. I predict Tally is going to see something that is going to attack her.

Blog Post#20

The dried food I would take with me would be a Steak N' Bake. This is dried steak, just like beef jerky, in a pack, with a dried baked potato. You would make this by drying steak over a grill, then putting it in a can, and the baked potato you would also dry over the grill.

The things I would miss about my home would be: www.buffalowithwings.com

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1. My friends



2. Family



3. House



4. Good food



5. Entertainment



6. My dogs



7. Bike



8. Dirt bike



9. Games



10. ......and MANY other things....

Blog Post#19

I think Tally goes to search for Shay because she wants to turn pretty, and she wants Dr. Cable to stop annoying her.

Blog Post #18

• Tally went hover boarding and got lots of scratches.
• When Tally came back to her dorm, Peris was waiting to talk to her.
• Peris and Tally talked about what happened to her.
• Tally went to Special Circumstances to talk to Dr. Cable
• Tally went to find Shay at "Smoke."

Blog Post#17

I think he comes back because he wanted to know if everything he heard was true. "So they're real?" "Do they really look different?" "You know your not pretty."

Blog Post#16

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

This means that wherever she went, people looked away from her because she is an ugly. To her, that was the most visible she had ever felt, this could be because she is never out in public, or it could mean that just being in the presence of people, even though they were looking away was a lot of attention for her.

Blog Post #15

Tally arrives at Special Circumstances and was greeted by Dr.Cable, who told her about Shay and how she needs to find her friends because she may have been tricked into going there. Tally refuses to rat Shay out. Dr. Cable says that until she deceides too, she wont turn pretty. Tally returns to her dorm very aggravated and confused on what she should do.

Dr.Cable

• Her eyes were almost as big as a normal pretty's, but angled upward like a wolf.
• Rude
• Can be harsh
• Aqua-line nose
• Sharp teeth
• Gray eyes

Blog Post#14b

• Tally talks to a new ugly about turning pretty.
• She remembers what Shay told her about the operation and what they do to you.
• Tally is picked up by a pretty to go to a hospital in New Pretty town
• She arrives at the hospital and waits patiently
• A doctor scans her eyes to make sure it is the right person, then tells her to keep waiting
• Another doctor comes and tells Tally that something is wrong with her operation and that she needs to come with him.

Blog Post#14a

"We dont have to look like everybody else, Tally, and act like everyone else. We've got a choice. We can grow up any way we want" I think this means that you dont have to look and act like everybody else. You can be fine just the way you are.

Blog Post#13

The first fight is when Tally and Shay pretend to fight to scare the uglies away. Talley pushes Shay down the stairs of the library and then she activates her bungee jacket. The second fight was when shay got mad at Tally when she brought up turning pretty. The differences are that the first fight was fake and the second was on purpose. The similarities are that in both, Shay was acting weird.

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 the rainwater fell on the mountains and soaked into the ground."
This shows that Tally's city that she lives in doesn't have much forest or nature. There are a lot of buildings and other things that make it so that you cant experience nature or wildlife.

Blog Post #3

A few hot-air balloons pulled at their tethers against the darkening pink sky, their passengers shooting safety fireworks at other ballons and parasailers.

I think tally chose to wear a mask to the party because she is an ugly and everybody there was a pretty.

"Masks have been used for thousands of years in cultures around the world. Early masks were probally made from local materials." "Harder-to-find, or more precious materials would probally have been used to embelish more important masks in ancient times, as they are now." Over the centuries, masks became associated with religion. Ancient Egyptians considered mummy masks to be an important part of the transition to the afterlife. It is also an object that is frequently worn on the face for disguise, or to hide the identity of a person.

This relates to Tally's decision by how masks are used to hide identity, or disguise someone and that is what she was using it for.

Blog Post #11

Tally and Shay arrive at the Rusty Ruins. Shay tells Tally about roller coasters and how they work. Shay convinces Tally to ride the exterior of the roller coaster on her hover board for fun. when Talley falls off of her board because of an open gap in the roller coaster, she becomes frightened and stops riding. Shay tells tally there is someone that she wants her to meet, that is out there.

"Every building sported jagged spurs of metal sticking out from its broken walls, like bones jutting from a lone-dead animal." Pg.62

"It was like a hover board course made solid, complete with tight, banked turns, sharp climbs followed by long drops, even loops that took Tally upside down." Pg.64

Blog post #1

I think beauty is how people look in the world. If everyone looked the same, then no one would have any unique characteristics about them. The world would be dull and boring.

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Blog Post#10

I would rather know the reality behind everything because I would want to know what was going on and not be fooled and deceived.

In 1811, the first recorded attempt to navigate the Snake River in Wyoming, was planned by the Overland Astorians. The rubber river raft is believed to have been invented in the early 1840's. It was first made by Lt. John Fremont. Rafting was first included into the Munich Olympic Games in 1972.

Blog Post#9

The Rusty Ruins were "the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of when there had been too many people and everybody was stupid.

Peer Pressure: Social pressure by members on one's peer group to take a certain action, adapt certain values, or otherwise conform in order to be accepted.

There was a time when I was with my friends, and we were shooting paintball guns. One of them started putting pressure on the rest of us to aim across the street at my neighbors mailbox, and shoot it. Luckily, I knew that doing that would somehow result in us getting in trouble, or just ending badly, so I said no.

Blog Post#8

"Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun"... "This whole game is designed to make us hate ourselves"
I think this means that putting yourself down can be hurtful.

"Everyone judged everyone else based on their appearance. People who were taller got better jobs... people killed one another over things like having different skin color."
I think this means that depending on how peoples characteristics are, they are either put down, excluded, or discriminated against.

"It's the only way to make people equal."
I think this means that there is a way to make everybody equal.

Blog Post#7

In the movie Back to the Future part two and three, hover boards are used as means of transportation.

Blog Post#6

Tally just set the alarm off at the party on the roof and then jumped off. Tally meets Shay in New Pretty Town and tells Shay about how she crashed the party. I think Tally and Shay are alike and I think this means they are going to become close friends.

Blog Post #5

I think New Pretty Town advocates bungee jumping because they just want to have fun.
"Bungee jumping started on April 1st, 1979, when a group of people from Oxford University Dangerous Sports club, were impressed by a film about vine jumpers. They jumped from a 245 foot long suspension bridge in England, using nylon braided rubber shock cord.

Blog Post#4

• Tally is three months younger than Peris
• She is an ugly
• She is daring

• Peris is three months older than Tally
• Is a pretty

I do not think they are best friends because Tally is jealous of Peris because he is a pretrtty and she's not.

Blog Post#2

My friends have always been close by and have never abandoned. I moved to Magnolia and left some of my friends behind, but I still keep in touch with them.

Interface Ring: A ring that controls electronics in the pretties world.
Toothbrush Pill: a pill you take that brushes your teeth for you.
Cacophony: Harsh, jarring sound.