I read a book called, Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld. It is about a society in which everyone turned “pretty” after their 16th birthday. Before they are 16 years old they are considered ugly. The two main characters are named Tally and Shay. Tally meets Shay and they become friends and they played a lot tricks. On the night before their birthdays (they had the same one) Shay asks Tally to run away to the Smoke. The Smoke is a place where people are all ugly but they live like normal people because they don't get the procedure to turn them pretty. Tally says no but later on this group called, Special Circumstances, questions Tally about Shay and tells her that she can’t turn pretty until she finds Shay with a note that only Tally can understand. Tally finds the Smoke but she ends up liking it. She lies to the people there until she feels like it’s her home. Special Circumstances gave her a pendant which would track her as soon as she opened it. It throws it in the fire assuming it was ruined but it wasn’t and Special Circumstances show up the next day. They capture everyone and kill the chief. Tally managed to escape. She also finds David, Shay’s ex boyfriend and now Tallies boyfriend. They plan to find the captives. They find the Shay is pretty and David’s dad is dead. They then save the remaining people and they hide out in this place called the Rusty Ruins. They try to restart the Smoke but Shay becomes more difficult to deal with because when you become pretty they change your personality and how you act. David’s mom thinks she came up with a cure to change the pretties personality back to before but Shay refuses. This book being a series, Tally choses to go back to the city and turn pretty. She said she would come back and see if the cure actually works. The plot is about a futuristic city that has been changed so that everyone lookes the same. Two girls snuggle to find what real life is and are very cautious because of societies standards. All of the pretties have the same characteristics and same with all of the uglies. The two people who have different characteristics are Tally and Shay. It is set in a futuristic era where technology is very dream like to us now. I think that this is a great book that shows you that you have the choice to decide if you want to be society's standards. I think that it is a good book for people with insecurities because it teaches you that you shouldn't judge yourself if you aren't "up to societies standards"
Prompt: Discuss the use of sound devices (alliteration, consonance, assonance, rhyming) in one of the poems in your sub-genre reader. How does the author use these elements to create meaning? Please include the poem as part of your response. In the poem "A Poison Tree" from the Romanticism era, there is a lot of examples of rhyming. The rhyme scheme was AABB stanza (4 times). The poem seemed very happy because of the rhyming. It seemed like a happy poem but it was actually the poem was quite dark. I think that the author used the rhyming to make the poem seem happy but when you read it again you realize it is about a man being poisoned under a tree. I also think the poem was written in a joyful way because during the poem the main character was resenting the man that was poisoned. In the last line he/she says that his/her friend was glad to see the friend poisoned. I was angry with my friend; (A) I told my wrath, my wrath did end...
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