**This week you will need to post one more comment on the Week One board, along with the Week Two requirements. Please return to the comment section in Week One and read all of the comments below your last post. I have listed directions at the end for you. Happy Blogging!
Questions for Week Two:
- Describe the Rusty Ruins and what clues show us that it is based on our life. What do you think was the terrible end of life as we know it?
- Explain what the Special Circumstance division is and your feelings towards this division.
- Explain what the problem with Tally's operation is. Do you think she made the right decision and why?
- Explain why the rangers had to produce a firestorm to save the planet. Compare this situation to another situation in the novel or our world.
- All humans in our society would have been considered an Ugly according to this book, even movie stars and models. What are your thoughts about this concept?
- Do you think Tally will turn Shay in? Make a prediction about whether or not you think Tally will have the opportunity or choose to turn Pretty.
Click on the comments link below to blog and read other students posts.
Dear Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteThe rangers had to produce a firestorm because they are trying to get rid of all the phragmipedium panthera. They are trying to get rid of this certain flower because one day a Rusty scientist discovered a way to engineer the species to adapt to wider conditons. The thing is, she messed up the expirement, so they grew and they grew and they have to get rid of them somehow, so they burn them! I would be scared just like Tally was to wake up and see the field that you were sleeping in was burning!
Sincerely,
ms0618
Dear Ugly Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteSpecial Circumstance is kind of like the brains of the city. They make sure that everything is running smoothly but to look at the town you'd never know it. Not many people have ever seen a "Special" and most "Uglies" and "New Pretties" don't even believe in them. These people had surgery to make them look cruel and wolflike so that when you look at them, you are fearful. Special Circumstances is involved in making sure that there are no infiltrators from the outside world so that the people in this community think that their way is the only way of living and so noone questions their authority and way of running things. I think that this division was started by the people who made this city the way it is. They are the ones to blaim for brainwashing everybody. I think that there must be something rotton about them because "Specials" basically live in hiding and nobody really knew where their headquarters were. Tally had no knowledge of Special Circumstances and I think that there is a reason that they are kept secret. ~ OR1020
Dear Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteI have never really thought about modles being considered uglies in this book. It's weird to think that since this book takes place in the future we are all cnsidered uglies now. I also think about being like born ugly and ugly till ur sixteen? I wonder why the author chose sixteen to be the year of your surgery? They could be tunrned pretty when they are twenty or twentyone or even fifteen!
Sincerly,
ms0618
Dear Ugly Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteThe problem with Tally's operation is that Dr. Cable, and Special Circumstances, wants to find where the Smoke is. The Smoke is a place where people run away to escape the life of the city and all their lies. Tally's friend of three months runs away to the smoke and Dr. Cable knows that this is the opportunity to find out where the Smoke is. She tells Tally that she will not be turned "pretty" until she finds the Smoke and betrays her friend Shay along with everybody else living in the smoke. Shay had given Tally coded directions as to where the smoke was. I don't know how I feel about Tally's decision. I don't think I would betray my friend. I might run away to the Smoke because if I didn't turn pretty, I would have to stay in Ugly Town forever and be the laughing stock of the century. I might tell Dr. Cable that I would do it and get her support and use the hoverboard and SpagBol that she gave me, but then just drop the tracker in s tream somewhere and stay in the Smoke or try to find a different city that didn't know about her and who would turn her pretty. I don't really know what I would do. I think I would have to be put in that position to understand because I have no concept of how deep her desire to be "pretty" runs. ~ OR1020
Dear Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteI think that Tally will turn in Shay. Or I think that maybe the Special Circumstances planted a special chip on Tally that the Smoke people can't sense it or find it. I think that Tally may turn in Shay because she wants to be pretty, and if she doesn't she will be ugly for life!!! She doesn't want Shay to get hurt or in trouble. She wants Shay to be pretty with her, but Shay wants to live on her own terms. Tally wants to have a PRETTY adventure with Shay, but Shay wants to have a SMOKE adventure with Tally. I also think that Dr. Cable might of had a chip somewhere in Tally, so she can send a hoovercar over to the Smoke to find all the uglies that didnt want to be pretties. Well blog to you all later.
Your Frind,
ms0618
Dear Ugly Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteAll humans in our society would have been considered an Ugly according to this book, even movie stars and models. It's hard to think that some of the people that we consider really beautiful would be hard to look at compared to the "pretty" people in this book. I think that this is because everybody got so used calling "pretties" pretty and it just seemed like that was the way it was. In the book, the teachers tell students that the way they feel towards pretties, slackjawed and awestruck, is just part of evolution. I think that this is a load of cow poo. It's not called evolution, it's called brainwashing!!! If people in our society today saw what was considered a "pretty" person, they might think, that's a nice looking person, but there's just as much a chance that they look away in disgust. According to them, I'm an ugly, you're an ugly. Everybody is an ugly. I think this is wrong and that these people need to change their thinking styles. ~ OR1020
Dear Ugly Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteIn response to MS0618, I agree that it would be really scary to wake up to see the field in which you are sleeping to be on fire. I think she was most afraid that her hoverboard would get ruined and that then she would have to walk the rest of wherever she was going. I agree with everything that you said about the flowers. They were scarse and pretty, so someone made them so they would easily grow in more places and then they became a menace. Dandelions remind me of these flowers. I don't think anyone mixed with the genetics, but they look like flowers and yet everyone is trying to get rid of them. When I was little, I would argue with my classmates that dendelions were weeds and not flowers, and of course I was right "because my daddy told me so." It also reminds me of clover. This is because the clover crouds out the grass and then pretty soon, there's not any grass in a big patch on your lawn. I think that the person who made them this way didn't think all the way through and so the outcome was disasterous. There are many things in our world today that should have been given more time and thought. These are things that cause problems every day. ~ OR1020
OR,
ReplyDeleteI never really thought of the fact that the Special Circumstances division must have had surgery to look cruelly beautiful! It blows my mind to think of all the engineering involved in terms of the physical characteristics of each person in their community. Their emphasis on looks becomes more and more disturbing as I read the novel, but it also makes me think about our own society and how we need to alter our views on the importance of looks. Great observations!
Ms. Steffen
MS,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your statement that Tally wants to have a Pretty adventure with Shay and Shay wants to have a Smoke adventure with Tally! If they both want such drastically different situations from their friendship, will it last? Or will one of them change their minds about how they want to live life? I certainly hope that we will find out the answers by the end of the book!
Ms. Steffen
Dear Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteSpecial Circumstances division is a group of people that try to find the Smoke. They try to find people who run away from turning pretty. I think that it is a bad thing because they shouldn't force people to turn pretty. I think they should give the people an option because I don't think it is going to hurt anybody if some people don't turn pretty. Most of the people in the book want to turn pretty anyway so nothing would really change.
From,
mb0122
My Fellow Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteI personally think that Special Circumstances is a group, that in my opinion, is sort of nosey. They just need to mind their own business and stay out of other people's worlds. They are trying to find the Smoke and I hope they find it because I want Tally to be pretty
Yours Truely,
RH0530
Dear Uglies,
ReplyDeleteTally operation isn't working out because Special Circumstances wont allow her to be pretty unless she tattles on her friend Shay. They are being unfair and in a way they seem like they are blackmailing her. I give Shay credit for being a good friend but then she goes and tells Special Circumstances where Shay is. So I think her choice was sort of good but I am really mad that they still won't turn her pretty =(
RH0530
OR,
ReplyDeleteHaha I also think that it is a load of cow poo. The people of Uglyille and Prettyville seem like they think pretties are better than everyone else and WE, REGULAR HUMANS, would be considered not as good as them.
HOW RUDE
RH0530
Dear Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteThe problem with Tally's operation is that she knows where Shay is and Special Circumstances knows that she knows. They won't turn her pretty until she tells them where Shay is and where the Smoke is. Tally decides that she is going to tell them where Shay is just so she can turn pretty. Tally gives Doctor Cable the note that Shay gave her, but Doctor Cable says that it is in code that only Tally knows and that she will have to find the Smoke for them. Tally is now trying to find the Smoke. I think that she made a bad decision because she is betraying her friend and all the other "Smokies." My prediction is that Tally will not activate the eye thing and Special Circumstances will come looking for her.
From,
mb0122
Dear Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteThe rangers had to start the fire so that they could stop the spread of the phragmipedium panthera. The flowers are easily spread and take up a lot of room where they are. So that way other plants cannot grow and animals can't survive. Such as birds, that nest in trees can't survive. They spread so easily because a Rusty scientist engineered them to adopt to wider conditions but she messed up and they grow everywhere! They have to burn them to stop them from spreading.
From,
mb0122
HELLO BOLGGERS!
ReplyDeleteThe thought that even movie stars and models in our world would be considered ugly is weird. So if their uglies are like our pretties I wonder how pretty the pretties really are!
RH0530
Dear Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you RH0530 about special circumstances. They are noesy! They want to know everything and anything they can get their hands on. They are people who want to be the ones to discover something and kinda of brag about it! They are using Tally to discover the Smoke. I also want Tally to be pretty! I don't know why, but her wanting it so bad in the book makes me want it for her too! Well blog to you all later.
Sincerely,
ms0618
Dear Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteI think that all the models and movie stars' carrers would crash and burn because they were "ugly" and weren't pretty and glamourous and perfect in every way. Even if they managed to keep there fame I don't think they would get very much publicity, I think they would get shunned and just ignored by all the other pretties in the world. The only thing that they would get known for is just simply being an ugly model/movie star. Don't you think?
Sincerely,
ab0406
Dear Fellow Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't know which choice Tally will make. Right now, in the book, I think Tally will turn Shay in. Because being pretty is all that really matters to Tally right now and she will obviously do anything to turn pretty, even if it means breaking a promise to her friend. But maybe along the way as Tally starts to see how the people who live in the Smoke live. She might open her eyes to see that those people have a point and no one should just be pretty or ugly, they should just be themselves and be who they want to be not how they think they should be or how someone else thinks they should be.
I don't know what one Tally will choose but I know for one thing she will ether be betraying Peris or Shay.
What are your thoughts?
Sincerely,
ab0406
Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteTally's operation is on hold for right now because Special Circumstances needs Tally to find Shay and bring her back or she will never be pretty and she will have to spend the rest of her life as an ugly. Tally reluctantly goes and tries to find Shay. I think Tally made a hard decision. Because ethier she turns pretty and totally stabs Shay in the back, or she stays ugly and stabs Peris in the back. Either one is nor good or bad I just think that turning pretty is more important to Tally so she reluctantly goes to turn Shay in.
Sincerely,
ab0406
P.S. Why does Special Circumstances even care that Shay is gone in the first place?
RH0530,
ReplyDeleteI think you are absolutely 100% right. Special Circumstances are just black-mailing Tally. They are being completely unfair about making Tally choose between turning on her friend or turning pretty. Already having a good hunch that she is giong to turn pretty because it is important to her. They are slimy little sneaks.
Sincerely,
ab0406
Dear Ugly Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteThe problem with Tally's operation is that Shay ran away to the "Smoke" and Special Circumstances wants her to turn Shay in. Tally made a promise to Shay to never tell anyone where she went. At first she wouldn't tell them where she went and I think that was being loyal to her friend. But then she had a change of heart and decided to turn her friend in just so she could be pretty!! I don't think that is very loyal and makes her seem very selfish. What do you guys think??
BB0519
Dear People that are reading the uglies,
ReplyDeleteThe problem with Tally's operation is that the doctors who make you pretty will not let her become a pretty until she helps the find where Shay is at. Tally didn't know what to do in the fist place because Tally promised Shay that she would not tell where Shay ran away to no matter what. I think she is doing the wrong thing because she is going to get her friend in trouble just so she can look pretty. I would probably do the same thing but I know I would be doing the wrong thing.
~AH0926
Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteThe problem with Tally's operation is that Special Circumstances won't let her become Pretty unless she found The Smoke and turned Shay in. I think that Tally is making the wrong decision because she is breaking Shays promise. Acually I would probably do the same thing though. I would feel really worried if I was Tally because you would loose a friend, or an operation that turns you pretty.
~MW0423
Dear Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteI am commenting on BB0519. I think you are right. Tally is being selfish and isn't very loyal! She made a promise and just broke it for her sake. She didn't even think of all the people she was hurting by doing this.
From,
mb0122
Dear Ugly Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteThe thought of everyone being ugly in our world to their world is shocking!!! Even movie stars and models! That is all just soo shocking!
Even though people are prettier than others it is not right to judge someone on their appearance. I don't think people are judged on the inside. Most people just judge people on their looks.
BB0519
Dear AB0406,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you! Tally had to make a hard decision. And either way she was stabbing someone in the back. If I were her I don't know what I would do. Stab your best friend forever in the back, or a friend that you just met, but has been loyal to you through it all. I guess being pretty to Tally was more important.
BB0519
Dear Ugly Readers,
ReplyDeleteI think Tally won't want to turn Shay in, but the Special Circumstances will find her. Then Shay will be really mad at Tally, but in the end Tally will turn pretty. I think this because Tally won't want to turn her friend in so she'll do something, but eventually will have to get out of the Smoke. This story is very different, but in a good way. I like this book a lot!!
BB0519
Dear Bloggers of all ages,
ReplyDeleteMy prediction of if Tally will turn Shay in or not is, I think Tally's final decision will not to turn in Shay. I then think that Tally will just stay with the people of Smoke, but I think Tally is planning on turning her in now but I just don't think she knows how much Shay means to her and how she really doesn't want to lose her so Tally just might stay at Smoke and I think she might learn to like Smoke becasue people dont care if your ugly or pretty and it might turn out that it is what Tally really likes.
~AH0926
Dear Ugly Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteI think that is just crazy that not even movie stars or models would be considered a pretty. Which makes me very curious of what a real pretty looks like but i do have a good idea of what a pretty looks like. In the book, it says that some are just a natural pretty which amazes me that they actually have thoses in their world. I would feel pretty cool if I was one of them. I wonder what we would look to the pretties if they saw how we look like.
~AH0926
Dear RH0530,
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you. What I dont understand is why does Tally have to find Shay and her friends. I know that Shay is her friend and all but I'm sure the other people who ran away had friends but they didnt have to choose between turning their friend in or turning pretty. That is something I don't understand.
~AH0926
Uglies Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteSpecial Circumstances is the headquarters of this secluded world. They seem to be in charge of everything. I think they were the masterminds of this place and all the brainwashing that took place to pull it off. They seem very secretive and manipulative. I don't think they should be so concerned on whether or not people want to become "pretty". I think that this is what led me to believe that they came up this place. They're probably going to want what they planned to do. This place seems very questionable and worthy of an investigation!
Sincerely,
PK0913
Uglies,
ReplyDeleteThe rangers had to produce a firestorm to save the planet because a rusty scientist was attempting to create more phragmipedium panthera flowers to make things look more "pretty"! Well, they definitely got more flowers, A LOT MORE!
I would be quite frightened to wake up and see flames out my window. I would be absolutely terrified!
This is kind of like fire. People could just be wanting a campfire, but by the end of the night they could have a whole forest fire destroyed. Sometimes things we do aren't always completely thought through and we do them anyway. Even though we fail, this is how we learn and do better the next time!
Blog to You Again,
PK0913
Bloggers of The Uglies,
ReplyDeleteAccording to this book everyone in our society is considered ugly, even models and movie stars. I think this is "pretty" idiotic/ignorant! We are all created in the likeness and image of God. We are all one; fat, skinny, tall, short, black, or white! I think some of the glitz and glam has to go. Society is influencing so many people that in order to be "pretty" and "happy" you have to have all of this fortune and fame for being on a "reality" TV show. People are starting to conform to these earthly ways instead of dealing with the things that truly matter.
Be a True Pretty!
PK0913
Ms. Steffen,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely on what you wrote to OR1020 on 10/15/09. It blows my mind too that they came up with all of this engineering to make someone "pretty"! I find it very disturbing as well on how obsessive "looks" are to their "world". It is awful on how preoccupied we are on our appearances.
PK0913
BB0519,
ReplyDeleteI think Tally really had a large decision to make. I think someone is going to think she is selfish either way. Is it going to be Peris or Shay?
I don't know for sure if tally made the right decision or not. I don't know what their morals are and what their life/world is really like. Things seem to be so perfect, but than so complicated?
Cheerio!
PK0913
Dear Bloggers of the Ugly book,
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts about everyone would be ugly even all the celebrities are, that why would the author think of such a nasty thing to do to the celebrities, I mean think of the normal people as well.
Dear Ugly Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteI think that Tally will turn shay in because i don't think that tally really likes shay because shay can be nice at times but i still don't think that tally likes her as much as she does with peris, But then again she couldn't turn shay in because she kind of does like her.
Dear MW,
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you about tally's operation and what not but the one thing wrong with her operation about thinking that she should be thinking that she should be saving shay not turing her in.
IM83095,
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is kind of hard to tell what kind of decision Tally is going make. Tally and Peris have been friends forever, but she is also friends with Shay. Part of me thinks that Tally is going to turn Shay in because they say when you become "pretty" everybody seems to get along. So she probably wouldn't have to worry about what Shay thinks, but maybe she will still care? Sometimes I feel that Tally wants to stay the way she is with Shay? Gosh, I'm so confused!
PK0913
MW,
ReplyDeleteI would just as weird if I was Tally because of the major decision of either turning pretty or loose a friend. It would be a really hard decision.
AB0406
Dear IM83095,
ReplyDeleteI think that Tally does like Shay, but not enough to give up turning pretty for her. I agree that Tally has a better relationship with peris than Shay
~MW
AH,
ReplyDeleteI think I found out the answer to our question. She has to go to find Shay because the people at Special Circumstances want to learn about the land of Smoke. But I am still wondering why they care so much and why they are sending Tally to do all of their dirty work.
Yours Truly,
RH0530
Dear Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteSpecial circumstances kind of runs the whole city. They make sure that everything runs smoothly. I don't really like them. I would see them as kind of like a cop!
~MW0423
Dear OR,
ReplyDeleteI think that special circumstances is kind of like the brains of the city. I think that you did a really good job explaining what it is. You helped me realize a lot of things that they do.
~MW
Dear Ugly Bloggers,
ReplyDeleteI agree with AB0406 who is agreeing with RH0530 that Special Circumstances is blackmailing Tally. They are doing this because they want to find the smoke where people run away if they want to escape pretty life in the city. Tally's friend Shay did this and Special Circumstances won't let Tally turn pretty until she turns in Shay and the smoke. They told her that they would turn her pretty when she helped find Shay. She thought Special Circumstances meant that she just had to tell them all she knew. They tricked her into telling her that AND going to the smoke and betraying the location of the smoke. I agree that Special Circumstances are being slimy little sneaks. Reading through all the comments, there are a lot of different observations about this book, but they all kind of follow the same general opinion. ~ OR1020
Dear AH,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you I can't believe that movie stars and models aren't considered pretty!!! I mean look at them now and think about what a real pretty in Tally's world would look like! I can't even imagine!! Someone prettier than like Beyonce!! That's just crazy!!!! I can't really picture what they look like.
BB0519
Dear MS0618,
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you that you think Tally with turn Shay in. I don't think she will because once she stays at Smoke for a while I think she will learn to like it there because no on really cares what they look like. That is why i disagree with you. So i don't think that Tally will turn pretty.
~AH0926
BB0519,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on everything you said. I can't believe that they thought models and celebrities were ugly. In the book they are right on somethings though, models are freakishly skinny. Well most of them at least. I also agree that people are judged on their appearances and not who they are on the inside. The librarian said that Tally had to wear gloves so that the acids on her hands wouldn't destroy the three century old magazines. So that tells us that this is a long time into the future.
From,
mb0122