UGLIES Emelie Oiknine

Emelie Oiknine

English Period 6

November 20, 2008

The author of Uglies is Scott Westerfeld. I got introduced to the book from both my friend and my sister. They were both reading it at the same time and one time when my friend came over they started talking about it. Once I heard things about it I really wanted to read it. In my opinion Uglies was the best book in its trilogy. Once I got started with these books I just could not put them down! They were lots of fun to read, the books really intrigued you, and I'm so glad that they introduced me to it.

Uglies is mainly about the future where it is MANDITORY for everybody to get a cosmetic surgery when they reach the age of 16. Obviously, there are the few people that do want to keep their faces. That's where the characters come in. First there is Tally. She is the main character. Then there is her best friend Shay. All of their friends already turned 16 so they're already pretty, or not. The few uglies that do want to keep their faces have to do something they are not allowed to do in order to keep them from getting the cosmetic surgery. They run away to a place called the Smoke. Shay was supposed to run away with her friends but she chickened out. A few weeks before her 16^th birthday she decided she didn't do the right thing and ran away from Uglyville, into the Smoke. Tally wasn't too fond of the idea but Shay really wanted her to come with. Shay left a set of directions that only she could understand to lead her to the Smoke. But as I said before, she didn't want to go. On Tally's 16^th birthday she was taken to get the cosmetic surgery, but she ended up somewhere else, the office of Special Circumstances. They have been looking for the Smoke for the longest time. At this point they knew that Tally was their chance to finally find it. They made it very clear that she could not turn pretty until she led them to the Smoke. Tally was sent as a spy. Whether she betrayed the Smokies or not, will change her life forever.

"What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful". David said this to Tally while they were at the Smoke.I believe this is the best quote in the book. It shows that you don't have to have a cosmetic surgery to be beautiful. You can do great things, and thing amazing things, and it can make you beautiful. It basically shows why people left their homes to go to the Smoke to live a normal life.

I give this book 5 out of 5 hover boards because hover boards played a big role in this movie. There was the entire scene where Tally first learned how to ride them, it got her to the Smoke, and took everybody just about everywhere that they needed to go. It was their main way of transportation.

I would recommend this book to any teenage girl older than 10 years old. A reason why somebody would want to read this book is because people need to know that beauty on the inside is just as good as and sometimes even better than beauty on the outside. Another reason would be is because it keeps you enthralled into the book because you never know what is going to happen next. It was a very unpredictable book. Everything that happened happened in surprise. One last reason I think somebody should read this book is because it shows how Tally dealt with her problems. It always took her a while to decide something and it shows that some times, you have to think about things before you do them. I have no warnings for this book except that if you are a guy, you probably won't enjoy it.