Blog Post #52

If I were Tally then I would tell the warden to make me pretty because by becomming pretty she can fix everything that she has messed up.

Blog Post #51

Tally has finally decided to come clean about betraying the Smoke. I don't think that Tally will regret telling David because she was going to have to tell him sometime, or another. David's feelings could possibly change, but if he really loved Tally then they wouldn't change at all. Everybody makes mistakes.

Blog Post #50

I don't think that Maddie should've forced Shay to take the pills to cure the lesions. You can't really force somebody to do that, and it's Shay's choice.

Blog Post #49

If I were Shay, I wouldn't cure myself with the pills. This is only because I'd already be a Pretty, and I wouldn't want to be cured. Shay would go back to hating Tally, and Shay doesn't want that. Shay wants to be happy, and plus she doesn't even know if the pills are 100% safe.

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 friend's thoughts, warping her feelings, gnawing at the roots of who she was."

I think that this quote shows how much Tally despises the lesions. I think that is shows what the lesion are doing to Shay's brain, and how they are changing the way she thinks. It shows that Tally feels guilty that she was responsible for doing that to Shay.

Blog Post #47

• Tally and David break into Special Circumstances and knock Dr.Cable out.
• Tally discovers that Shay is a Pretty while David breaks out the Smokies.
• They escape on the roof with their hoverboards.
• The "kicker" of this chapter is that Maddie tells David that his father, Az, is dead.

Blog Post #46

"Radiology. Neurology. Magnetic Imaging," she read softly. "Operating Theatre Two."
I think that this quote has a deeper meaning to the story because it is describing all of the terrible parts of the surgery.

Neurology is typically the study of brains and your head.

The interrogation rooms are used for getting people to share secret information by scaring, or interrogating it out of them.

Radiology rooms are like X-Rays, or scans.

"She was tall and elegant, every feature perfection."-Page 338 of Uglies

Blog Post #45

If I had one chance to post a message important to me then I would say, "Everybody is Pretty in Their Own Way" because the quote is true. I think that everybody should feel pretty.(:

Blog Post #44

Tally used to be alike to the uglies David and Tally meet in this chapter. When I compare Tally to these uglies I see that she has changed a tremendous amount. She has grown up, and become more adventurous and sort of fearless. I think that David's parents have had a huge influence on the way Tally has changed because they told her about the lesions. Now that Tally doesn't want to become pretty she has focused on alot of other things in life.

Blog Post #43

I think that Tally's plan will definately work out because she is so determinded, and wants to help so much. I think that Tally is being driven by her guilt, and also I think she wants to help David's parents for David. Tally's feelings are very much real.

Blog Post #42

Tally and David describe the Rusties as crazy, idiotic people that waste the Earth's materials. They think that all of the Rusties believed in fighting and jealousy. This description is some what correct for very few people, but not many.

The weaknesses of our society vary, but the main things are pollution and fighting.

The weaknesses of their society revolve around the strong goverment, and how everybody\everything is the same.

Blog Post #41

September 11, 2001




Picture from:
Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
"It was the day when the unreal became the unimaginable. Sept. 11, 2001, the crystalline morning when planes dropped from the skies and toppled the World Trade Center and punctured a hole in the Pentagon, was a demarcation point that shattered the security of the country and introduced a nebulous and virulent enemy previously unfamiliar to most citizens. Nearly 3,000 people died that morning, the vast majority of them in the gnarled rubble of the Lower Manhattan towers, others at the Pentagon and in a rural Pennsylvania field. A numbed country with red-rimmed eyes came to understand the ugly menace of terrorism.

The echoes of that horrific day have radiated outward in myriad directions, indelibly altering peoples’ concept of what it means to feel safe in the modern world. Investigations were undertaken into how something of such magnitude could have happened, and conspiracy theorists trotted out diverging notions. A war on terror was set in motion that gravitated from the battlefields of Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq. The long-running and problematic Iraq war has opened fissures in the nation and abroad, and advanced to the forefront of political dialogue."

-http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/sept_11_2001/index.html

Blog Post #40

The irony of Tally's victory over Dr.Cable is that she did save the articles, but who cares about stupid books when the whole Smoke is gone forever. She destroyed the Smoke, and then she thinks she beats Dr.Cable by saving a bag of books. I think that this is very ironic.

Blog Post #39

David is somewhat right about Tally's amazingness. Like most people, Tally has had her brave and astonishing moments, but she also deserves to be shunned upon. Tally doesn't deserve to be complimented because of dishonesty.

I think Tally should feel guilty because she is. She needs to live up to her actions.

Blog Post #38

I think that the voice in the dark is one of Tally's friends from the Smoke. Considering that most of her friends, except david because Tally couldn't find him, were resistors I think that the voice is David's.

Blog Post #37

Self preservation means to protect yourself from being preserved, or thrown in jail. I wouldn't lie for it because it isn't worth it. I'd rather stay loyal to my friends because lying is bad.

Blog Post #36

I think that Tally is with the Smookies now. After experiencing life in the Smoke, she has finally decided that she likes it there. I think that somehow before the operation Tally will save her fellow Smokies, that is if she doesn't get caught.

Blog Post #35

I think that this part of the book is definately the climax because after this event nothing will ever be the same in any way. Although, there may be an even crazier event towards the end of the book also.

Blog Post #34

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

In a way, my mom is beautiful. She may be old and mean sometimes, but she's always there for my brother, my sister, and me.

All of my friends are beautiful in their own way. They always make me laugh, and except me for who I am.

Blog Post #33

"Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look... it changes the way you think."

This quote says that becomming pretty fixes your flaws, but brainwashes you. Basically, becomming pretty makes you pretty on the inside too.

If I could change anything while becomming pretty, I'd want to become smarter mentally and prettier physically.

Blog Post #32

"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."

I think this quote shows that parents and children aren't supposed to look alike, meaning that they engineer what you're going to look like in the future.

I think becoming a pretty changes your mind too.

Blog Post #31

Simile:
"...around her neck as tightly as the vines, bush, and roots grasping the railroad tracks."-Page 243

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

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

Meeting David's Parents

It requires alot of bravery to meet somebody's parents, especially David's. His parents are super mysterious, and that would probably scare me alot. Even if they're nice, I would still be nervous.

Blog Post #30

I think that Shay shouldn't be jealous of Tally because Tally didn't phisically make David like her, he just naturally did. Plus, jealousy will just make her not only an ugly, but ugly on the inside too. Shay should just move on.

I've never really gotten a present that made somebody jealous, that I know of.

Blog Post #29

It would be easier for Tally to activate the pendant when she first reached the smoke because now she has become used to it, and she has also met all of the good citizens of the smoke. At first, she was just ruining Shay's dream, but now that she's realized it she will be ruining other people's lifestyles and dreams.

Blog Post #28

I wasn't very suprised that David's parents were runaways, and he wasn't. I think that David's parents didn't want David to have to go through the surgery because it was dangerous, so they ranaway.
"They are doctors."
When David said this it really told me why his parents ranaway. Obviously, something bad could happen during the operation.

Blog Post #27

Skylines

Picture By: Batikart

I think this picture of the skyline is definately not ugly. It is pretty because of the sunset and the amazing water.

Blog Post #26

I think that Shay's description of a model is pretty correct. Models are supposed to be really pretty and skinny, and get payed for it. That's what Shay said they were, and she was right about them.

Tally and Shay have a skewed view of our time, but they haven't gotten everything correct about us. They think that we were crazy people that starved ourselves, but not all of us are. Tally and Shay never have had the chance to experience the pressure that we go through because soon they become a perfect pretty, and erase all their flaws.

Blog Post #25

Characterization: David

• Serious about living in the smoke
  
• kind


• About 18 years old


• Has strong leadership skills


• Caring

Smoke

I think that the Smoke is an abandoned town that is covered in ashes and trash. Also, the smoke is a village in the wilderness.