Through out the whole book tally always found ways to bring attention to how “ugly” she was. David was raised in a society where there were no uglies or Pretties, just people. The way David was raised is how we, in our time period, live today. Tally was raised believing automatically that she was ugly, nothing more, nothing less.

In our society and David’s society, Tally would have probably been an average looking girl or better. But we would never know by the way that Tally kept degrating herself.

I believe that David saw Tally differently because he looked at who she was and not what she looked like. And it’s that type of true affection that females want. For them to be told not just how great they look physically (not that that’s bad at all), but how great they, as a person, are.

David didn’t see how one side of her face was off a bit, or how her nose was ugly. He saw Tally. The Tally that had fun playing games! Who was risk taking, intelligent in her own way. I have read the Uglies, Pretties, and the Specials. But the Uglies is the one that sticks out. It shows true affection towards another person. Some thing we are all looking for, even me.

I feel that the illegal immigration issue should be enforced to the full extent. I’m not saying that people don’t have good reason’s for wanting to leave someplace that they hate, but immigration is what it means moving from one place to another. In this case it is moving from one country to another, which can have many problems. First of all, different country means different laws, so for example in the country your coming from you are allowed to carry a weapon with you, or something to that effect, if you were to come to the US you would probably get arrested and put in jail and once they found out you were illegal without having done anything you will get put in jail. So in my opinion it is important to follow the rules because they have them for a reason.
No to be mean, but I still back up my statement about enforcing illegal immigration to the fullest. Victor and his family may have been poor, but if they got into the country legally they would have no problems starting fresh. The problem with sneaking in is if they get caught they get deported and get put under heavy watch and will never have a chance to get to the US again.
Overall I didn’t really like the book I would not recommend it to people.

I don’t think that fate is decided before birth. i think that choices we make throughout our lives and it isn’t our fate to chose what we do. but i also think that in this book fate partially what compels toms decisions but the book is fiction. you can choose not to do anything if you don’t want to.

With this analogy, Victor is explaining his position as a poor person. The tree represents his life, the path he will be taking. The farther he climbs the tree, the more successful he will be. The branches represent the opportunities he has to change his course and tide of his life. But because of he is poor; he says climbing the tree would be impossible for him. The tree is covered in lard, making the tree slippery. This symbolizes that when he is climbing, he will just fall back to the bottom again. The branches are farther up the tree, showing that no matter how far his arm reaches, he will not be able to grasp the branch with just his hands. He is saying in this that he will never be able to grab and hold onto that chance and be able to continue up the tree and follow a dream to become bigger. And all this falls onto the poor community of Mexico according to Victor. But I say he is wrong. Everyone has the chance to become better than what they are. For me Victor could use spiked boots, a symbolism of help and support from all his friends and family. There’s other ways to climb the tree, and is you are determine, you would be able to change your stars.

Chance’s dad was also getting jobs and making money to live on. If Chance had to leave his boat he could have sucked up his pride and asked Melissa if he could stay at her house for a bit until they got money. He did not think of these alternatives, so he did what he thought would get him money at the expense of his morals. Fortunately, I have yet to make a decision that had no right choice, but I do believe I will face a difficult option in the future because things just happen.

Currently, the American society is based off of appearance and possessions. Almost every teenager has a cell phone, a computer, or an ipod( or mp3 player), while there are children in other countries who can’t even get their hands on food. Every day, teenagers struggle to pick out the best clothes, have the best shoes, and pile on pounds of makeup, when kids are dying of hypothermia in third world countries. The basis of society is conformity, not personality or depth. Presently, America is drawing away from the very foundation it was formed on: Individuality. Western civilization has the chilling potential to turn into a society like Tally’s in Uglies. Everyone struggles to be tan and skinny. With more people getting plastic surgery everyday, America has the possibility to turn into a society of Littlies, Uglies, Pretties, Middle Pretties, and Crumblies. Although the thought of a communistic, dictated society is very alarming, it will never happen in our generation. Thanks to the structure of the government, drastic requirements and rules can not be imposed on society, if they do not abide by the constitution, and pass through a system of checks and balances. I believe the change could even happen generations after our children, even though the Earth isn’t expected to last that long. Ugglies is very similar to The Giver. In both stories, the main characters find out about rebel societies, that do not conform. Hopefully there will always be that alternative, due to human nature, if the phenomenon occurs to our society.

Technology did play a huge role in the story “Hit the Road”, without the amount of technology that was used the whole book would have to have been rewritten. At the beginning of the story Britt is so very excited about getting her driver’s license; she is excited to get behind the wheel of the car. Her grandmother does eventually say that she can a little later. Through out the story Britt and her friends are text messaging each other or communicating by cell phone or what ever they need to do to keep in touch with on another. Britt does this mainly to give them the plan of what they were going to do. Then, there was the whole situation with the laptop. After Aston kidnaps Britt’s grandmother Britt grabs the laptop to see if there is anything for them to get any evidence or information as to where her grandmother had been taken to. Also, when she was driving and playing with her phone she almost go in to a car accident; this at that point in the story raised the tension to the extreme.

Do I think that the use of technology added or subtracted from the entire story? I can’t say that it really did either but, if I had to choose one of the two I would say that it added extremely. I would say this because, the use of the high tech devices is very easy to relate to the average teenager. Over sixty percent of teens have a cell phone and about ninety percent of teens in the United States have a computer. As you can see technology is very easy to relate to for teenagers these days and that is why I think that the use technology in this story is a good thing for writers to use in their stories. The only downside to all of this is that technology is a never ending advancement in today’s society so, this book can become easily “outdated” because, science has come out with some better thing than a cell phone or a laptop.

Being in a blended family can be very difficult. I personally am not from a blended family but some of my friends are, and I know how tough it has been on some them. When you aren’t from a blended family your whole life you automatically know everyone in your family and you grow up with them. You share a lot of experiences with them also. In blended families you don’t grow up with them and don’t have as many shared experiences. So then your opinions and views on things tend to differ. That can cause a lot of problems and arguments. Generally that part of your blended family is going to do things different then what your used to. That can not go over well, and in some extreme cases break up blended families. Being in a blended family is difficult because you don’t know that new part of the family that well. Also because you may not like having to share your part of the family with the new part of the family. I think that it is harder on the children in the family. Mainly because they have no choice in becoming part of a blended family, where as the parents do. The children just have do deal with it and listen to what their parents tell them to do. Sometimes that can be tough because you may not agree with what you have to do. Being in a blended family is hard on the parents too. However it’s not as hard because they had a choice in it and because no one is telling them what to do. Being part of a blended family can be hard, but it can also turn into something wonderful.