Once upon a time there was a ugly duckling who was ugly. The book of ugly duckling had been read‚ but now that it was 2015 ugly duckling thought that it was time to take action against mother duckling. So ugly duckling arranged a court case in the court of right‚ on muffin man road. He also sent a letter to mother duckling knowing that she would not like the news‚ and he also sent a letter to the lawyer academy for farmers requesting a lawyer for the case. On the day of the court case everyone
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Hunger games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins The Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfield What if violence and obsession were much more common than usual and the government was corrupt‚ what would you do? Could you do anything? Imagine that was your life every single day. That was the life of the protagonists in both Uglies and The Hunger Games. Both trilogies take place in a very futuristic world. The Hunger Games is based in a dystopian society‚ while Uglies is based in a utopian society‚ or so the government
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When I was 9 years old‚ I found a paperback copy of Scott Westerfield’s Uglies on my brother’s desk. This forever changed me. Before that‚ I had been only known my reality. I had not understood the limitless possibilities of the mind at this age. I had watched television shows sure‚ droopy-eyed in the evenings‚ consuming the static with youthful satisfaction‚ but this experience was nowhere near the immersion of literature. I had trouble learning to read‚ initially. I often found myself struggling
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Iris Johansen “The Ugly Duckling” Published by “A Bantam Book” in 1996 This is the first thriller by Iris Johansen that I’ve read. She is an American author of crime fiction and romance novels. Johansen began writing after her children left home for college. She first achieved success in the early 1980s writing romances. In 1991‚ Johansen began writing suspense historical romance novels‚ starting with the publication of The Wind Dancer. In 1996 Johansen switched genres‚ turning to crime
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English 1301 3/2/2014 Finding Happiness through Thick and Thin Happiness is something the world struggles with on a daily basis; maybe it’s not about the happy endings‚ but maybe it’s the stories along the way. Throughout my life I have encountered several trials that tug on my ability to become happy‚ robbing just a little ray of sunshine at the end of the tunnel. With some of the situations I have been in‚ people may say I should be unhappy‚ but that’s just the opposite. I grasped onto the
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with the concepts of identity‚ place‚ relationships‚ acceptance and understanding to oneself and other people. These aspects of belonging are demonstrated through the free verse novel‚ ‘The Simple Gift’ by Steven Herrick‚ and the fairy tale of ‘The Ugly Duckling’ by Hans Christian Anderson. In the very early stages of ’The simple gift’‚ Herrick displays sixteen year old‚ Billy Luckett’s‚ sense of alienation by using his first person character to highlight social issues such as hostility within his
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individual and retaining personal ideals which may ultimately result in a connection. This is explored in Emily Dickinson’s selected poetry I died for beauty‚ but was scarce and I had been hungry all the years ‚ as well as Scott Westerfeld’s novel Uglies. These texts all depict a struggle between being recognised and accepted in society and the desire to remain true to one’s self‚ exploring the paradoxical nature of belonging which‚ on one hand‚ provides fulfilment‚ but also removes a sense of personal
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in Scott Westerfield’s young adult novel Uglies. The book revolves around a futuristic totalitarian state that relies heavily upon technology and one in which individuals are divided into different age groups‚ upon turning twelve children known as Littlies leave their parents homes to live in the dorms of Uglyville where they continue to grow and learn in preparation for the Surge—a procedure that is performed on the sixteenth birthday transforming the ‘ugly’ young adults into Pretties (Westerfield)
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3/16/14 Pretties You can’t forget your past even in a bright present. In the novel Pretties‚ Scott Westerfeld discusses the different stages a girl‚ Tally Youngblood (Tally-wa)‚ goes through to become a beautiful woman. Girls are put into “The Uglies” category until they turn 16 which is when “The Specials” submit them into a surgery that transforms their lives. The surgery consist of making them beautiful‚ strong‚ healthy‚ and slowly erasing parts of their memories for the purpose of them only
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Ubu Roi is an Avant-Garde theatre play containing elements of dadaism and surrealism written by Alfred Jarry. Avant-Garde theatre is difficult to define‚ but it is similar to experimental theater and introduces new and unusual ideas. The performance opened and closed on the same day in 1896. Plot: The play begins with Papa Ubu‚ his wife Mama Ubu‚ and Bordure discussing a murder plot to kill King Wenceslas of Poland because Papa and Mama Ubu desire to have reign over Poland. In the second Act‚ Ubu
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