Rachel Z's blog post #5 pg. 406

"“What are you two…?” The warden's voice stumbled. Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The Warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. 
     Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. “I'm Tally Youngblood,” she said. “Make me pretty.”

…......….....……… This is the last page of Uglies and it ends at a cliffhanger ending.  It ends with the telling of her betrayal & still with the futuristic setting.

Blog post #4 pg. 250-251

"“I found that there were complications from the anesthetic used in the operation. Tiny lesions in the brain. Barely visible, even with the best machines.”
Tally decided to take a risk sounding stupid. “What's a lesion?”
“Basically it's a bunch of cells that don't look right,” Az said, “Like a wound or a cancer or just something that doesn't belong there.”
“But you couldn't just say that,” David said. He rolled his eyes toward Tally. “Doctors.”
Maddy ignored her son. “When Az showed me his results, I started investigating. The local committee had millions of scans in it's database. Not the stuff they put in medical textbooks, but raw data from pretties all over the world. The lesions turned up everywhere.”
…….............…………................…………........  Maddie obliged him, then continued. “Most importantly, almost everyone all over the world had these lesions. If they were a health hazard, 99% of the population would show some kind of symptoms.” “But they weren't natural?” Tally asked. “No. Only post ops - pretties, I mean – had them,” Az said. "No uglies did. They were definitely a result of the operation. "

This section of the book shows how the people that lived in new Petty town are changed to make them pretty and they change more than just their looks they change the way they act… This part says that the people that become pretty also become brainwashed by the “specials” & don't even know it. It also shows that this author is writing this story in a futuristic setting, again, because that would not be allowed right even if we could do that.

Madison R- Blog Post #5 Pg 254

'"Maybe it's not so complicated. Maybe the reason war and all the 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." Tally remembered crossing the river to New Pretty Town, watching them have their endless fun. She and Peris used to boast they'd never wind up so idiotic, so shallow. But when she'd seen him... "Becoming pretty doesn't change the way you look, No, It changed the way you think"

This book is very good, it always made you leave wanting more. You're on the edge of your seat from the very start of the book. It's interesting and a very unique, clever, idea that you never would've thought of without reading the book, which makes it very intriguing to read since you have no clue what's going to happen next since it's an idea that never had been thought of. There are many different elements that make up this book. There is the choice of being pretty, a new city, wanting to be back with Perid, choosing what to do, and many more conflicts that Tally faces in this book. I can't wait to read the next one.

Madison R- Blog Post #4

"In the front room of the house, four antique cups were set out on little saucers. Soon a kettle began to whistle softly on an electric heater, and Az poured the boiling water into an antique pot, releasing a floral scent into the room. The house was unlike any other in Smoke, it was a crumbly home, filled with impractical objects."

The author describes the house exactly with lots of detail and shows exactly the little things around the house.

Grace's Blog Post #5 - Page 425

     "What are you two . . . ?" The warden's voice stumbled. Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face.
     Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngnlood." she said. "make me pretty."

     I decided to use the cliche cliff-hanger. But I thought what Scott Westerfeld did here was genius. These are the last couple sentences of the book, where the main character gives herself up to the government, and he makes it so it's impossible not to want to read the next book. It shows that through out everything that's happened to Tally in the book, she has remained what she was in the beginning, a trouble maker. And now the reader is practically forced to read the next book to find out what happends to her.

Grace's Blog Post #4 - Page 172

     "At first there was a sound like a roaring wind in her dreams. 
     Then a tearing noise filled the air, the crackle of dry brush inflamed, and the smell of smoke swept over Tally, bringing her suddenly and completly awake.
     Billowing clouds of smoke surrounded her, blotting out the sky. A ragged wall of flame moved through the flowers, giving off a wave of blistering heat. She grabbed her knapsack and stumbled down the hill away from the fire.
     Tally had no idea which direction the river lay. Nothing was visible through the dense clouds. Her lungs fought for air in the foul brown smoke. 
     Then she spotted a few rays from the setting sun breaching the billows, and she oriented herself. The river was back toward the flame, on the other side of the hill. 
     Tally retraced her path to the top of the hill and peered down through the smoke. the fire was growing stronger. Fingers of it shot up the hill, leaping from one beautiful flower to another, leaving them scorched and black. Tally caught a glimmer of the river through the smoke, but the heat pushed her back."



      This section of the book has been my favorite so far, I loved the descrition of the adventure in Tally's journey. But the "fire-bug eyes" part was my favrorite out of the journey. He uses beautiful descriptions and figurative laguage in this part and in the next couple paragraphs when the "bug eyes" come into the story. I like how he personified the fire to have fingers, and how he intertwines her dream with the fire that was actually happening. And i really like the use of the word blotting, while talking about the smoke covering up the sky.

Grace's Blog Post #3 - Page 141

     "But the lights stayed on, and Tally's nerves were soothed by the roar of white water, the cold slap of spray in her face, the thrill of bending her body through curve after curve in the moon-speckled darkness. The board was smarter then her old one, learning her moves in a matter of minutes. It was like graduating from a tricycle to a motorbike: scary, but thrilling. 
      Tally wondered if the route to the smoke had a lot of rapids to ride. Maybe this really would be an adventure. Of course, at the end of the journey there would only be betrayal. Or worse, she would discover that Shay's trust in David had been misplaced, which could mean . . . anything. Probably something horrible."

     I think the use of figuritive language in this section is very good. It is used in many places but I like the first sentence: "But the lights stayed on, and Tally's nerves were soothed by the roar of white water, the cold slap of spray in her face, the thrill of bending her body through curve after curve in the moon-speckled darkness." I think it uses great descriptions, also, the personification of the water slapping her face.  and I LOVE the line describing the night or darkness as moon-speckled darkness.