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Describe your favourite character in the novel and explain what role they play in the
story. Justify your choice of character with evidence from the text.

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Maddy, David's mother, is my favorite character in the book, eventhough she is not often seen. I like that she fought the city by escaping even if she had already turned pretty. She created the smoke with her husband and she helps uglies who want to escape the way she did. She also wants whats good for other people, which is proven when she looks for a remedy for all these years in order to save lives.
Over all, she's a very caring person and she never turns out to be mean or bad in any way. At the end of the book, she finds a way to save the pretties and their lesions.  She puts other people first and respects others choices. Basically, she is my favorite character because, she has an important role in the book, and she is a sweet, altruist and fierce person who would be a great role model. Her altruism is similar to Charlie's in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. His family is really poor, and when he gets offered the factory, he refuses to be with the ones he loves. He doesn't want prestige, he only wants to do good for the people he cares about, and so does Maddy.

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Describe your least favourite character in the novel and explain what role they play in
the story. Justify your choice of character with evidence from the text.

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Write a short Breaking News story about the invasion of the Smoke from the perspective
of a journalist from Special Circumstances.

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Write a short Breaking News story about the fall of Special Circumstances from the
perspective of a journalist from the Smoke.

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Describe two themes in the novel. Justify with elements from the text. Research and
illustrate a quote that fits with each theme.

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Identify two conflicts in the novel. Justify with elements from the text. Research and
illustrate a quote that fits each conflict.

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Compare and contrast the protagonist and another character in the novel. How are they similar? How are they different? Provide evidence from the text.

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Describe the antagonist of the novel. Explain why they are antagonists and whom they
antagonize. Provide evidence from the text.

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Describe what you liked and disliked about Part 3 of the novel. Provide evidence from
the text.

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Write a short book recommendation or book review explaining why your peers should or
should not read this novel. Provide evidence from the text.

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Write a short poem or a song stanza related to or dedicated to the protagonist of the
novel. It can rhyme, or be written in free verse.

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Write a short two-paragraph alternative ending to the story.

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A chase broke down between a bunch of uglies and a team of special agents. Right after rescuing some of their friends, the runaways rode their hoverboeards, followed by a team of hovercars thought the city. Dr. Cable had been knocked inconsious by one of them, when they snuck in the building. Amongst the tricksters were spotted Tally Youngblood, who is now on our wanted list. We have lost contact with the uglies. For the first time ever, special circumstances was defeated. We will keep you posted as soon as more news come in.
City journal

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- Character VS Character
Tally vs. Dr. Cable
Tally is, from the beginning manipulated by the cruel pretty. The agent proposes an agreement, but if Tally agrees, she is breaking a promise she made to Shay. So, the uglie is torn between her friend and her beauty, and it's all because of Dr. Cable, who hired her as a spy.

- Character VS Nature
Tally vs. The Smoke
In the novel, the uglies and pretties live in the city, where everything is taking care of, therefore, they don't ever do manual work of any kind. When Tally first arrived to the smoke, she had to learn all about living in the wild, and it was hard to adjust. Her first days were hard on her, since she had to chop wood, kill animals, start fires and more. Overall, Tally had to adjust her lifestyle to her new environnement.

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The main antagonists in the book are special circumstances, because they are the protagonist's enemies. They are the ones threatening Tally at the beggining, they are also responsible for the fall of the smoke. Throughout the book, they are responsible for the suffering of a lot of uglies. More precisly, Dr. Cable is responsible. She is the one who is fought in the novel.

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Uglies is a book about a futuristic utopia, where everyone, at their 16th birthday, gets plastic surgery to look "perfect" and move to a great city where they party all day. Some teen run away before their big day, and one of them, Tally Youngblood, shakes things up. The refuge of the runaways, the smoke, is being searched for by special circumstances, agents from the city. Tally is sent by them as a spy and that's where the love and the thrill begins.
Uglies is a book for teenagers more than it is for adults. It's not a deep book, but you do need to have a certain amount of knowledge and maturity to understand the details of the novel.
I would recommend it to students who like adventure books and plot twists.

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The agent looks at Tally for a few seconds. His face reveals a confused look, which quickly becomes one of awareness. He jumps on Tally and handcuffs her before she can understand what's happening. He grabbes his walkie-talkie and proudly says:
- Iv'e got her Doctor.
Shay is standing on the hoverboard her and her friend had been sharing a few moments ago, staring at the scene without knowing what to do. More specials arrived shortly with a hovecar, taking Tally as quick as they came. Next thing she knew, Shay was alone, and Tally had been taken.
Tally, as she rides along with the specials, realises all this was a mistake. She sould have stayed with the other in the ruins. They are not going to make her pretty, after all she's done, she's going to jail. A big klaxon noise bursts her out of her thoughts. The hovercar crashes abruptly into another.
Tally sits up, covered in sweat in her bed, it's her bithday.

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My least favorite character is  Peris. I don't really like him because he was rude to Tally when she came to see him in Pretty town.
For example, at the page 19, she wanted to talk to him after she spilled dirt on him, and she didn't even start her sentence when he told her "Go!". Not only he didn't let her finish her sentence, but he told her to leave. It seems to me as if he was aggressive to her. Then at the page 20, when responded to him "But we're best friends, right?" he told her "Sure, forever. In three months." The fact that he said "Sure" demonstrate the lack of interest in this cause, in being friends with her. He could've said "of course" or even "absolutely", but he only said "sure". In addition to that,  he said "In three months". He wanted to make clear, by saying that, that he was only going to be friends with her once she got operated as a "Pretty". Isn't that cruel? It's like if, once he became pretty, he got to a superior level than her. I find disgusting that he doesn't like her anymore. She hasn't change, why would he act different around her. In my opinion, the surgery did not only change his physic to appear as uniform as everyone's, but his way of thinking about the uglies also changed. It's like if, suddenly, he has the idea that uglies are worth nothing until they got "pretty". It's sad. It's probably not Peris' fault, he has probably been influenced by the way of thinking every other pretty had. However, this is still by far my least favorite character because of that. Because he changed his way of seeing Tally. Because he let the society's opinion get in the way of their friendship. I think the author wanted to emphasis a problem that actually exists in our society. Indeed, I often see it happening around me or even by me. The phenomenon of people changing their opinion, decisions or way of acting depending with which people they hang out is often , in my opinion, recurrent in young people. In other words, when children or teenagers are growing up they are building their personalities and values with what surrounds them. This is why we often hear that children reproduce their parents' actions or that your are who you're surrounded by. It's a natural instinct to copy your surroundings to blend in a group of people. However, when you grow, you learn to be your own self and believe in your own decisions independently of the people around you. I know that it seems as if I would be defending Peris, but I'm not. Peris is a mature guy. He is 16 years old. He should, from now on, be able to have his own singular opinions.

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Here I am, on a beautiful morning, on the "Smokies" emplacement. Indeed, we've just learned by sources that, in this area, there have been a population called Smokies that have been living here for years. Today, our troops are deploying to save everyone that they possibly can. This intervention requires the help of many of our highly trained special agents. They are currently forming a circle around what seems to be called "The Smoke".  The residents were previously all gathered at the same place to probably eat breakfast, but they are progressively scattering to try to escape to the forest. Of course, our goal here is to save them so our agents wont do anything to them unless they resist so then they'll be forced to.

Here Yasmine,
Special Circumstances' field reporter.

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Describe two themes in the novel. Justify with elements from the text. Research and
illustrate a quote that fits with each theme.

1rst: Society
p.254 : "Maybe the reason war and all that other stuff went away is that there are no more controversies, no disagreements, no people demanding change. Just masses of smiling pretties, and a few people left to run things."
p.406: "At least she was causing trouble to the end."
These two quotes not only represent Tally trying to fit in her environment, but also trying to find a purpose to her place in her society. Now that she understands, by exploring the past history in the Smoke, that the society has been built on innocent people doing just what they're told to do, she wonders what's going to be her destiny. Is that society the ideal life everyone would want to be in. The dilemma Tally is faced to reminds me of The Matrix.  "You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." It exactly the same thing, this city stripes you of your individuality and your conscience, but allows you to live peacefully. This is why I think society is a big theme in this book. It's not only a structural representation of the citizens, but it's also a concept of comfort and familiarity. If you want to leave it, it will be hard, but at the end it will bring you a greater good which is finding your purpose of life.

2nd: Appearance
p.254: "Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look, [...] [It] changes the way you think."
Obviously, the second theme is the Appearance. In this novel it is not only question of physical appearances, but also of what image you project to others. Indeed, in this books, particularly in the smoke, trust has been gained on experience and time. However, when Tally first entered the Smoke she was judged only by her appearance. And here I'm not talking about physical, but rather of how her personality appeared towards others. Did she inspire confidence? Did she look like a traitor? Some were fooled and some not. Sometimes physical appearance can't hide your real inside appearance.

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Tally being the protagonist in this novel has learned a lot through her journey. This is partly why I think that she is smart as David. We would all expect David to be smart, because he was born in the smoke and taught, by the knowledge his parents have passed on, from a young age, how to think individually, to have opinions and to questions superior authority. However, Tally , to a certain point in her life, has been bathing in this innocence. She had the capacity to learn new things and to completely reject the truth she has been given since she was born. This is why I think she is as smart as David even though their paths aren't the same.

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Tally Tally Tally,
why did you go on this journey
why didn't you just obey
why didn't you just lay on the gurney

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Describe what you liked and disliked about Part 3 of the novel. Provide evidence from
the text.

I like part 3 far more from the other parts, because there was more action. They go in Pretty town to try to rescue everybody, Tally confesses herself to David and finally goes back to pretty town. I find it ironic that Tally makes herself "pretty" for the science. I love the irony that she "risks" herself for the experiment while months before she would've rushed herself to go do the transformation without questioning. The only thing I dislike about part 3 is the ending. It's like if the author made it on purpose to make the reader continue the sequel. It left us needing more. When it says "At least she was causing trouble to the end.", I was disappointed that we didn't have more info.