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. :)