Book Project 1

Uglies By Scott Westerfield

Uglies by Scott Westerfield is set in the future. In the book once you turn 16 you get an operation that turns you from a normal person (Ugly) to a perfect human, a pretty. Pretties are perfect in every way. They have the body of a supermodel and a beautiful face. Once you have this operation you move away from Ugly town, a quiet normal suburban area, to New Pretty Town, which is a lively city with a wild nightlife.
How Scott Westerfield perceptions of the future:
There will be new technology such as Hover boards that know you’re its owner, floating ice rinks, and everyone has an interface ring that lets you communicate with inanimate objects around you, like elevators or the hover boards.

The main conflict in the book is the operation that turns you into a pretty, this operation makes you beautiful but most of all once you move to new pretty town you are an equal to everyone around you. You are just as beautiful as anyone around you but no more beautiful. This fixes a lot of problems in the world today. No one is competing to be more beautiful, no one is fighting over it, but what types of consequences does it have? Not everyone follows the rules. Such as, Tally Youngblood and her new best friend Shay. When Shay decides she doesn’t want her operation she runs away to The Smoke, a secret reserve where rebel Uglies go to stay away from getting turned into a Pretty. Tally stays behind but once it’s her turn for her operation she gets told there is a problem and is forced to figure out some uudecoded clues left behind for her to solve to find and lead people to The Smoke to find Shay.

 I won’t spoil any more of the book but I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to read it. Although I think the main audience will be teenage girls.

Reflection 7

I think for a book to be labeled non-fiction it has to be at least 75% true. I think that the 25% that isn’t true shouldn’t change the overall feeling of the story. If it is 95%-100% true it can be called a memoir. Even though there is a 5% that isn’t true as long as that 5% only slightly bends what happened in reality to better help the reader understand how the author felt than that’s okay. Besides pretty much every book has at least one aspect, as small as it may be, that isn’t true. If a book is any less than 50% true it should be called a realistic fiction because if the story came from something that happened then it is realistic but if up to half of the book is made up or bent than its fiction. I think that even though genres can cause people to pass by a book they help give the reader a better understanding and connection to the story. If the story is labeled as a memoir than it should be a true memoir, not partially true and partially made up to spice up there life. If someone like David Shields doesn’t care about how true or how plagiarized the story is than they don’t have to look at the genre labels.

Reflection 6

Genre Labels

I defiantly think that they genre labels are helpful when the cover of the book doesn’t give much information on the book, especially when you know you’re trying to find a certain genre of book. When I look through books that’s usually one of the first things I look at because I know what I like to read and those labels clearly identify what the book is going to be like. I don’t they’re necessary because if you read the back of the book you can usually tell what kind of book it is. I think that in some ways they help generate readers because most people know what genres they like and will pick up books based on the genre labels instead of taking a lot of time to look at every book cover and read the back of every book to decide if they might like it. I also think that they repel a lot of readers who might otherwise like a book because as people are browsing through the racks if they just look at the labels and don’t read the back of the book they don’t really know what the book is about and might miss out on something they would really enjoy.

Reflection # 5

Book covers that make me want to keep walking:

·         usually i dont like the covers with a just part of or a whole girls face because they arent descriptive but I like this one of how her freckles and how she is laying in a grassy field tell you about the character and setting.

 

 

 

 

     Book covers with “dismantled body parts” like people holding hands or a close up on a girl’s ankles or hands bother me. They're not unique and dont usually tell you anything intresting about the book. Usually when I see a book cover like that I’ll put it back and move on.

·         Book covers that are extremely girly also bother me. They usually don’t say much about the book. I pass those up to.

·         The book covers of a girls back are usually boring and generic but if they are in a unique place or have something unique about them then I might reconsider.

Book cover that I want to stop and look at:

·         I like the book covers with symbols on them, like The Hunger Games.

·         I also like book covers with a lot of detail and different                                               aspects from different parts of the book but that all mold into one                                            picture.

 I usually dont like book covers like the twilight one with just one simple picture but since ive seen the movie I know its a good moment in the story but then again this doesnt say anything about the book itself if you didnt know what it was about.

Reflection #4

Books made into films: best adaptation to worst.

1. Harry Potter
Theese books have an amazing adaptation into film. Theese books were really intresting, amazing, well written and the movies represent every visual aspect perfectly and follow the story;'s every action and event.
2. Hunger Games
The first book is  written with tons of detail and theyre fantastic. The film follows the story almost perfectly. The visual representation is amazing and the scenes are realistic yet like a fantasy.
3. My Sisters Keeper
I liked both the movie and the book because the movie followed the plot and has good visual representaion except for one huge change. The ending to the movie and the ending to the book are completly opposite. This changed the feeling and upset the audience.
4. Series of Unfortunate Events
The story was detailed and fun in the books and was followed okay in the movies. But the movies turned out to be odd, the visual representation was off key and strange.
5. Twilight
Theese books have an intresting and dynamic story. I even think that the adaption has good visual aspects but the acting in the films are horrific and at some points, hard to watch. The films didnt do justice to the books.