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My favorite character is Tally Youngblood, because she’s not perfect and that’s why I could recognize myself in her. As the famous expression “The error is human” says it, it is normal to be wrong, the important thing is to learn from your mistakes and that’s what Tally did. At first, she didn’t do the right thing, but at the end of the book she’s trying to fix her mistakes.

At first, she decided to go to the Smoke to give his location to Dr.Cable and take back Shay. This action was only for own good because she wanted to be pretty and it was the only way to achieve her goal. At the end of the book, Shay became pretty and Maddy didn’t want to give the cure without her consent, because there isn’t a hundred chance of success. Then, Tally decide to go to pretty town become pretty and be rescued to take the cure as a guinea pig.  If it works, Shay could take it without knowing. Tally didn’t do that for her own good. In fact she better likes to stay with David and don’t risk her life. Also, after the cure Shay would probably start hating her again  for what she did to the Smoke and for her relationship with David. She shows that she learned from her mistakes and she’s trying to fix them.  Tally is someone that understand easily things and she is devoted , when she wants something she could do anything to have it. For example, she wanted awfully to become pretty and to make it she was ready to harm other people. She’s the main character of the story because she lead the story’s  attention where she is. Without her there wouldn’t have adventures, because she lead the smoke at his end, but she also saved the smokies.

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Personally, Shay is my least favorite character in the novel. I think she’s the one that change Tally the most. She changes her way of thinking about everything in life even her about her best friend Perris.  If it wasn’t for her, Tally wouldn’t even know what the Smoke is. If you think about it, the Smoke is what brought majority of the trouble to Tally.  I also don’t like Shay because she is blaming Tally for the invasion of the smoke. She thinks she’s the one snitching on them. Also, she’s mad about the fact that Tally “stole” her boyfriend David.

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Yesterday, we got an alarm that Tally was in danger, leading us to what we hoped was the Smoke. We left town early the morning, so we could capture as many Smokies as possible. We were a big group and more of us arrived each minute. We didn’t want to hurt anybody, but if we had to, we did it. All the Specials were patiently waiting in a ring around the building, we didn’t attack any large group. After we captured most of them, we started to divide them by there original city by scanning their eyes.

One of us found Tally Youngblood and delivered her to Dr. Cable. She is the one that leaded us to the Smoke. Dr. Cable ask her to go get the necklace that alarmed us. We don’t really know what happen, only the guard with her know, but she manages to escape on an overboard in the forest. Some of our hovercars flew on top of the forest trying to find her. But still today, no knew of Tally as been transferred.

Simone Wilson, journalist from the Special Circumstances

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The fall of Special Circumstances (Arianne)

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The fall of Special Circumstances (Arianne)

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Last night, two smokies infiltrated the special Circumstances. Everyone was intrigued by the fireworks light up yesterday. The message bring back hopes to Smokies. Now, everyone knows that the Smoke lives and will live forever. During looks were on the fireworks, the two smokies went liberated other smokies. According to our sources, they first went to art class to steal two bungee jackets. After they used them to jump on the roof of the special circumstances building. They went in to finally stand out with the other smokies. They exit by the roof on hoverboards. We don’t have names, but we know that one smokie died before the two others came to rescue him and one other person have been operated and is now pretty. We know that four smokies have been rescued and they left on hoverboards two by two, but we don’t know more about it for now. Stay connected in the next days to know more about it.

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In Uglies, I think that two of the themes are technology and appearance. During the story, you can see that these two themes take a big place in the society. For appearance, when you are born and until 16 years old, you are considered ugly. After that you get a surgery to become pretty and to really be apart of the society. People don’t accept you if you’re ugly, they don’t talk to you and don’t interact with you. For them, you are a nobody.

“Shay! Come on. It’s just for fun.”

“Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun.”

“We are ugly!” p.43

With this quote we can see that must teenagers really want their surgery.  They even play and photoshop themselves to see how they would look after the surgery. For technology, we can also see that it takes a big part of society. It is so advanced that you can, with one surgery, change completely your appearance. There is also overboard all around the city.

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conflict with herself : Follow the mass or be yourself

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Tally went to the Smoke to give his location to Dr.Cable, but when she learn about the lesions caused by the operation she was in a dilemma. She wanted to live like everyone else in pretty town, because when you don’t you don’t have the same privileges and she doesn’t want to be apart. If she decides to stay to the Smoke, she decide for herself. It’s not always easy, because you don’t have a lot of goods, but you become free of your own decisions.  So she is in the same conflict as the other smokies, should she follow the mass or decide to be herself. Before their escape, they all had to think about it and decide which side was the better one.

second conflict: Man vs society

The second conflict is man against the society because the Smokies see differently than the society. They don’t want to live under the society rules. At the end of the book the special circumstances came to take back the Smokies and make them pretty against their will. The Smokies want to live like they want and don’t think that their appearance definite them . The society is manipulated by the leaders and they been changed without their consent because they don't know that the operation did lesion to the brain that make them think the way they want them to think. They do this to have less problem and no one that can’t go against them and want to change the system. When you younger you want to follow a group and to be like everyone else, but when you grow up, your brain also grow and you are less influenced and that's what the Special circumstances wanted to avoid rebellions, but that way they take away the human rights.

“When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.” – Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan

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The protagonist and another character in the novel (Simone) 

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The protagonist and another character in the novel (Simone) 

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Tally vs Shay: There opinion about the operation are very different, Tally dreamed about this operation her entire life and can’t wait for her birthday to come. Compare to Shay, she never even thought about the operation, for her when Tally play and change and appearance on her bracelet, she doesn’t even think it fun, she will prefer to do something else than that. They also don’t really see the same way, Tally want to follow her predeterminate future as Shay wants to follow another path that is not very legal.

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The antagonist is Dr.Cable and she antagonize Tally. Dr.Cable prevents Tally of doing what she wants to do. She also have a lot of power and she used people to get what she wants. For example, when she wanted Tally to help her to find the Smoke, she send her parents and her friend, Peris, to help her persuade Tally that the right choice was to help her. She’s a good manipulator. There is also the special circumstances that worked for her. They do all the job, she just gave the instructions. She is the boss. They went to the Smoke to take back the smokies and because smokies fought, some special circumstances had been hurted. Nevertheless, Dr.Cable wasn’t hurt, because she let others do her job. She antagonize Tally because she see Tally as a good opportunity to have control on all citizens by destroying the Smoke.

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What you liked and disliked about Part 3 of the novel (Simone)

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What you liked and disliked about Part 3 of the novel (Simone)

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In Part3 of the novel, what I disliked the most is the fact that there is so much detail on everything Tally or David those when they try to save their friends. These chapters could have been so much shorter that they are in the book. What I like about the book is the story in general. I think that there is a very good storytelling and it is very intriguing through out the entire book. It’s full of action and twists that make the story even better. How the story is written, we can really follow the psychological trait and the emotion of each character during all the events that happened to them.

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A short book recommendation or book review (Arianne)

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A short book recommendation or book review (Arianne)

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I recommended this novel because it brings you to a reflexion. Is the technology well used? Should the appearance define someone? In the book, There is enough technology to do to someone an operation that changed completely his look, even his eyes color. In 2019, we have plastic surgery and even more, the technologies are taking more place and we have to started to think if we are ready and enough informed to make them part of our lives. Also, in the book they used the technologies to bypass humans rights, for example they put trackers in overboard to retrace people without their consent. We also have a new technology which is a chip that parents put in their children arms to retrace them if they get kidnapped or  if they just wanted to know where they are. It has his advantages and disadvantages. Also, the book brings you to a self-reflexion about appearance. Maybe we care too much and we should more accept the person that we are.

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It’s a story of a girl

That life changed in a twirl

Name Tally

Wanted to be pretty

She met that friend

Who didn’t want to follow the trend

Called Shay

She made her run-away

But all she wanted was to stay

Her operation was her dream

That went away like steam

Later she met that boy

That brought her joy

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Alternative ending to the story (Arianne)

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Alternative ending to the story (Arianne)

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After David and Tally saved the smokies by infiltrating the special circumstances building, they all will go capture Dr.Cable. Maddy who was doctor, knows how to do the inverse operation because she did it on Az. So the smokies will bring Dr.Cable in the operation room to do to her the same thing she did to others. She’s already had the operation, but she didn’t have the lesions, so they are going to do the reverse operation on her to make her ugly and still have the lesions in her brain. As we can see with Shay, when you have the lesions your minding changes completely, you think that being pretty is the best thing that you could have done. Like that Dr.Cable will understand what it is like to feel uncomfortable in your body because of what you’ve been told was the right way to look. She will understand what it is like to belittle yourself each time you see yourself. She will understand what it is  like to not have control over yourself and can’t decide for your own person.

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The Smokies are against the lifestyle of the city. They are few against a big group of person.  It ain't an easy fight, but it is for good reasons.

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Tally's past is not the most important, the most important is that she learned from her mistakes and that now she's better oriented. She knows what to do.

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Some people change their bodies to increase their abilities like the special circumstances.