Sunday, March 28, 2010

Blog # 52

If you where tally would you have asked the warden to make you pretty?

Yes i would have just to confuse him. Also if she says that the warde would tell doctor Cable and she will turn her as soon as she got there.

Blog # 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. And once you love somone you cant just change your mind not to have feelings for them anymore.

Blog # 50

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

Yes, but also no. I mean she dosnt know if it is safe so if she killed her it would have made her feel really guilty because she forced her agianst her ow will.

Blog #49

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

If i were Shay i would get the cure, but i don't think Shay is aware that the surgery can cause brain lesions. I think the operation programed her to believe that there is nothing wrong with her.

Blog # 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 #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 deadd.

Blog #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 #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 "live like your dying" because i belive that you should treat your last day like it was your last one. Any day you could die so ehy not be prepaired or living life with regrets.

Blog #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 #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 #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 #41

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

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/isaacsstorm/ Isaacs Storm. Galveston, Texas, awakened on September 8, 1900, on its way to becoming the most prosperous city in the nation, brimming with activity, commerce, and confidence. The following morning, it was a city decimated and humbled by nature, its businesses and homes unrecognizable, its hope swept away by what is still the deadliest weather disaster in American history. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/isaacsstorm/art/house.jpg

Blog #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 #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 # 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 a special. The enemy, because they have covered evry square inch of the town so it is most likely one of them.

Blog #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 #36

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



I think she is on the Smokes side and she is gonna try to help the Smoke and David.

Blog #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 #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: I think all my teachers are beautiful they are all good to me and try there best to help me comprehend me.

Personal: He is so sweet and nice, he listens to everything i say and try's to understand everything i say to him. He means the world to me and i don't want to let him go.

Blog #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 me tollerate people ad to get so mad easily, and not be so loud.

blog #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. And the way you function.

blog #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 #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, on my 13th birthday my dad gave me a 300 dollar visa and my grandparents got me a 500 dollar visa. My sister was jelouse because my grandparents had give her 50 dollars less then me.i could tell because she got mad and wouldn't talk to me(wich didn't really bother me, i actually liked it). And she also kept saying that they loved me more an i was spoiled when i spent all my money on a new phone and clothes.

blog #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 and she wouldnt have developed feelings for the smokies.

"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 # 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 or they didnt agree with the opperation.

"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?"

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Blog #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 have right that the girls starve there selves because its "beautiful". But really its not, and in magizines they have girls that are ugly but in our time they are not considered ugly.

Blog #25

Charictization David:
big nose
Scar on his eyebrow
nice but crooked smile
makes his own clothes

Blog #23

List the events that happend in this chapter in chronilogical order.
-Tally woke up because the flowers where around her where on fire
-She soon relizes a big machine was the cause of her sleeping bag tearing
-She trys to run away but the machine relizes her
-It takes her to the top of a hill on the smoke
-The people give her a new pair of shoes after destroying hers

"Tally was stuck out here im the wild forever.Ugly for life. Her only way home was to betray her friend"
Tally was stuck in the wilderness and she couldnt get out. the only way possible was to tell on Shay.

Blog # 22

What do you think the flying machine was? Who was in it?
I think the flying machine was a helicopter. The people in it where a rescue search.

Blog #21

Have you ever made yourself do somthing that you didnt want to do but you knew you had to?
Yes, I have.
Running, in athletics i was really tired beacause the night before I had stayed up untill midnight. But if i stopped the coaches would have yelled at me.

Predict what will happen next.
I think that Tally will make it to the smoke. But when she gets there she will relize that she missed Shay to much. Therefor she is going to stay in the smoke, and be to scared to rat Shay out in the end.She will most likley end up staying there.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Blog #16

"Everywhere she went, eyes looked away. But it was the most visible she'd ever felt."
I think that Tally means this by how everyone is noticing her but she doesn't want them to. She was sure that the authorities had said something to all the new uglies but, want sure what.

Blog #15

Tally arrived at a building that was ugly. She then walked into this ugly room with a cruel pretty sitting at the table. The cruel pretty, Dr. Cable, then asks her about Shay, Tally then hesitates and cant think of many ways to answer the questions about Shay running away. Dr. Cable soon claims that she is trying to help Shay and her old friends because they have never found any of them. Tally seems to not been intimidated from this. Tally didn't want to cooperate at this still. So Dr.Cable threated that if she didn't cooperate she would NEVER be able to turn pretty.

Blog #14B

Tally was waiting for the hover-car, she soon comes upon another new ugly, this brings back memories of her and Shay she thinks of things they used to do together. Then she thinks of how Shay left. The hover-car comes and picks Tally up. All Tally had was a small duffel bag full of random items that she just threw in the bag. After a few hours of agonizing waiting. A big man comes over an tells her there is going to be complications with the surgery.

Blog #14A

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

This to me means that we get to choose the way we grow up. and that we have a choice, that we don't have to think, act, or look like any of the other people. We should have our own looks, and our own thoughts. We should also be able to look the way we want to. If we all looked pretty noone would truly be pretty.

Blog #13

The two fights that were presented in this chapter the first fight was over the book, to scare the new uglies. Shay pretended that she knocked Tally of one of the higher library floors, Tally then fell into a bungee cord laughing. Tally and shay where both running away as fast as they could down to the ocean to celebrate. Shay and Tally both then start talking about becoming pretty. Shay then goes off on tally and they get into a big fight and stop talking for about a week.The first fight was a fake fight and the second one was real which is there differences.

Blog #12

"that was one thing about being outside the city: it made all that nature stiff they taught in school seem alot more useful. She remembered how rainwater fell on the mountains and soaked into the ground..."


Tally thought that there was no use into knowing all of the stuff they learned at the school. She realizes that the city stuff is way more technical than the other city's.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Blog #11

Pg.61 "The Rusty Ruins"
Tally and Shay go to the Ruins Tally gets on the roller coaster and Shay didn't tell her about the fall or the gap in the roller coaster. Tally gets mad at Shay for it, and goes to sit on a rock. Tally asked Shay how she knew about all this stuff about the Ruins. Shay said that she wanted Tally to meet someone, that is not in town- he is in the Ruins.

Similes:
"The rusties had been stuck down in these streets like a horde of rats trapped in a burning maze" Pg. 61

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

Blog #10

"I kind of like being fooled about some things."
Yes, I agree with Tally. If i knew everything I wouldn't be able to believe in anything. Like being fooled when you where younger about the tooth fairy. Its fun to believe in things you know that there is no possible way they can exist but it is still fun.

White Water Rafting.
"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."

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

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Blog #8

"Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun."
This means that she is tired of the things when people say she is ugly, she doesn't want to make herself feel ugly.
"This whole game is designed to make us hate ourselves"
Shay is saying this because she thinks the game is just pointing out there imperfections.
"Everyone judged everyone else base on their appearance. people who were taller got better jobs... People killed one another over stuff like having different skin color,"
This is talking about back when they killed over racial discrimination, and people judged by the way people looked.
"Its the only way to make people equal."
Tally is talking about everyone being turned pretty, she is saying that if they didnt get turned pretty there wouldn't be equals.

Blog #7

Fantastic 4,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3EC_V9A-rw
on 38-40 he is on a hover board.

The new pretties don't go back to ugly ville because they are "to good" and "too pretty" to. The other reason they don't go back to ugly ville is because they wait there whole life for the operation and why would they want to go back to there past when they have a better present.

Blog # 6

What have i learned about Shay?
i think Tally and Shay are allot alike, they both miss there friends in The New Pretty Town. I think they are going to become best friends and that they are going to get in trouble together.

Pg. 23 summery.
Tally was sneaking out of New Pretty Town when she heard a noise. She quickly froze up, after a few minuets of complete stillness, she decided that she was just going to fess up, "im sorry" she said, then realized that the girl she was saying it to was an ugly to. tally explained what had happened and Shay, the other ugly girl, had told Tally she was in New Pretty Town to spy on her old friends.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Blog #3

"a form of disguise. It is an object that is frequently worn over or in front of the face to hide the identity of a person and by its own features to establish another being. This essential characteristic of hiding and revealing personalities or moods is common to all masks. As cultural objects they have been used throughout the world in all periods since the Stone Age and have been as varied in appearance as in their use and symbolism."-http://www.anymask.com/historyofmask.html
Tally wears a mask to the white tie party because she is and ugly, and if any of the pretties see her they will tell and she will get in trouble.

Blog #2

Have i ever had a friend that abandoned our friendship after moving?
Yes, my friend,Julia, that i knew for three years moved to Barker Cypress, she she still talked to me but after a few months we just stopped talking. I miss her friendship but i think everything happens for a reason, i became best friends with Madeline and Charley, which where her best friends.
Interface ring- a tracking devise, and also a really smart computer
Toothbrush pill- if you chew it, it automatically brushes your teeth
Cacophony- when there is allot of people talking or making noise

Blog #1

What is beauty to me?
Beauty to me is not one certain thing, to me beauty isn't whats on the outside but, what's on the inside. Sometimes, being beautiful doesn't mean that you have great looks, it means that that certain person has something special about them. Some one person might have great clothes, great hair, and great looks but they could be ugly on the inside. If everyone in the world was beautiful, no one really would be, because if we all are beautiful, we would all be the same and no one would be ugly or beautiful.
This picture to me is beautiful because it shows a nice calm place, and it looks like there is no problems.
poverty.jpg poverty image by soul_surgeon
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb245/soul_surgeon/poverty.jpg
To me this is ugly. Not the poor child in the picture, its sad, therefore its ugly.