Imagery

As I walk through Uglyville, the buildings amaze me and seeing this, I couldn't imagine how New Pretty Town looks. The Dorms look like giant hotel rooms with bright colorful lights surrounding. The smell of pine and oak as I stroll, is engulfing. The sky looks like sweet, cotton candy. I can feel the soft breeze around me. I start to wonder, "Is this all too perfect? The breeze seems too wonderful. The temperature of the air is so calming..."

 

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Once i've moved onto Tally's old dorm room, I notice the glistening wallscreen and the bright lights surrounding her bed.  Everything still seems so... perfect. The window looking out onto New Pretty Town is like a photograph. You can almost taste the briskness of the night. Everything is so beautiful here...but compared to New Pretty Town, all the Uglies think this is so dull and boring. Somehow I wonder how this place ever began to fall...

 

 

:) (used my imagination on that last sentance.) :)

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Dystopia/Utopia

Dystopia Definition: An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a cruel or environmentally degraded one.

I think Uglies is a dystopian novel because it has a set of "rulers" that control everyone and everything. They do so by altering their brains to make them easier to control, basically. I think that makes an envoirnment unpleasant if you're forced to believe and think and act a certain way. & eventually, if they knew better, it would get old and boring. Unfortunately, everyone in New Pretty Town and Uglyville are unaware of these brain alterations. Also, this novel is considered futuristic. So, it's being imagined that the walls can talk and the bridges will tattle on you. That's why I consider Uglies to be a dystopian novel.

Utopia Definition: An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.

My utopia would be gorgeous waters and sunset skies. A perfect temperature at all times. Perfect weather and no crime or illness. It would literally be, a perfect world. I can't imagine waking up every day and traveling by boat, looking at the pink and purple mixed with amber, skies. Or waking up every morning to crystal blue dolphins dancing in the water. Everyone would love and respect one another. No person would ever go hungry or die of thirst. Since everyone lived in such a beautiful place, everyone would be so relaxed and calm. No one would ever take anything for granted and everyone lived peacefully forever. :)

Shay

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Interior Design

"When Tally reached her old room, she saw that everything had been recycled. Clothes, bedding, furniture, the pictures on the wallscreen - it had all been reverted back to Generic Ugly. It even looked as if somebody else had been briefly moved in, then out again, leaving a strange drink can in the fridge." (p.111)

In Tally's room, I put a mirror as a blank wallscreen and put a T for tally on the wall. I also put lots of pictures on the walls. Flowers and such. I put picture frames with no pictures on the wall. I put flowers on her bedside table. I put three designer pillows on her bed. Two chairs. One of the chairs is heart-shaped and very modern. I put a dresser with no clothes in it. A hope chest with nothing in it. I put a refrigerator in there as well. A modern-looking clock on the wall and a floor lamp for lighting. Also I added a book holder to the shelf on the wall.

Poetry

I am (version two): David 

Comic

I chose the scene where Tally snuck over to New Pretty Town and escaped Garbo Mansion. In New Pretty Town, they party all day and night and that night everyone was wearing masks and she grabbed a pig mask that had fallen and put it on so that no one would know she was an ugly. Garbo Mansion was one of the mansion's the brand new pretties lived. They had fireworks everynight and parties every day. Tally just wanted to sneak over and see her best friend Peris as a new pretty. But Peris wasn't excited to see Tally. He was angry that she snuck over and told her to go home and promise not to return until she was pretty. I think this introduced who the Pretties turned into after they were turned and how irrelevant they consider the Uglies after they've turned pretty. After Tally left Garbo Mansion, Tally met Shay. So this is also a great scene to showcase another main character and after she meets Shay, the story really takes off.