The book that I read is a very good book for generate questions. The following generate questions are, I think, really interesting and bring a lot to think about:

1. Why did the author choose his characters to be sixteen?

2. When are people mature enough to have their own opinion about the image? Relate to the novel.

3. Why are the characters in the story -and all the people in general- so obsessed by their image and the way they should look?

4. Who or what forces the characters -and people in general- to think like everyone else and to have the same ideas about the society, the world?

Justice or Injustice

    Justice or injustice are two very important themes in my novel. The hole story is about being "ugly" and turning "pretty" at sixteen. And the world where those people are living in separates these two sides very clearly. Uglies can't do what they want, they are always supervised, they have a special schedule that they have to follow and if they do anything wrong, they may recieve a punishment. But the worst part is that everyone makes them think they are ugly and not good enough so they strongly believe  in this. But on the contrary, the pretties have all the rights: they are almost compelled to have fun, they do absolutely waht they want everyday without any schedule or anything to block them. Everybody thinks that they are better than everyone else, even the pretty themselves.
"Of course, Peris could sleep as late as he wanted now. Just one of the advantages of being pretty." (Westerfeld 5)

  The character, and even the reader, learns in this novel that there always are situations of injustice.  And Tally, the main character, understood this when she met Shay: she learned that the world she is living in is full of injustice and she really tries to find the right middle. She breaks a lot of rules and sometimes it is for the best, but she has to learn that some choices have serious consequences. And that the best way to try to find any sort of justice is to try to be happy with your rights and, I think, sometimes to break some rules. We all need freedom, we just have to know our boundaries. I think that there will always be injustice but we can try to manage it in our way, the best that we can.
























   

Westerfeld, Scott. UGLIES. New York: Simon Pulse, 2005. Print.

The five elements that I think are relevant in that book are: conflict, suspense, immediacy, setting and  characters.

And for me, in order of importance, the elements are: the conflict(s), then the characters, the suspense, the immediacy and the setting.

The conflict is very used in that story because there are at least two ways to think. The  mains characters think in two different ways and I think that the author tells it very well by showing their two different points of view. Even though they don't fight, this conflict create a tension between them and we don't know how it might end.

""Oh, that's right," Shay said. "A couple of months and we'll be stuck inside the river. Pretty and boring."
Tally snorted. "I don't think it's exactly boring, Shay."
"Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun."
"I can," Tally said quietly. "Never having any."
"Listen, Tally, these two months are our last chance to do anything really cool. To be ourselves. Once we turn, it's new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty." Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. "Then dead pretty."
"Better than dead ugly," Tally said." (Westerfeld 49-50)
In that quotation, it is obvious that there is a conflict and a different way to see things. This conflict makes the story and the end will depend on which side the author decides to take.

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So I kind of like every kind of literature, it could be a romantic, science fiction, fantastic,...

The last two books that I have read are The Help by Kathryn Stockett and One Day by David Nicholls.
The Help is the black maids point of view on the white families and women for which the work in the 1960s. There's also a movie about that story and I actually watched the movie first, but I really liked it so I wanted to read the book which I liked a lot too.
One Day is the story of two people that met the night of graduation and decided to stay friends. We follow their story each 15 July for twenty years. I also watched the movie first and read the book after. But I loved both of them, I think that the story is beautiful and the idea of telling it each same say during twenty years is very good.

The best book that I have ever read is One Day. I found the story very touching and real. There's humor, drama, romance at the same time and I like that. The events that happen in this book are realistic and I really didn't expect the end.