Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Uglies
I was really intrigued with Uglies. I never expected to pick up the book and actually enjoy reading it. I just wanted to mention that the points brought up in class today were ideas that didn't really stand out in my thought process of the book. I suppose if I was to write my paper from a critical perspective those specific issues would have come into play. I compared Uglies to the movie V for Vendetta. For those of you who have not seen it, it's a very captivating movie. You should consider checking it out. I found some similarities between the two medias that I thought were unreal! I mainly focused on the government and the control of society, which is something we did not specifically touch on during class. Watch the movie. I would be interested to see what you guys thought about my comparison of the book and the movie.
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I also really enjoyed the book the Uglies. In my paper, I compared the book to the movie Stepford Housewives like the artistic example we saw today in class. I also read an interview with Scott Westerfeld, the author of the Uglies, and I thought it was really cool how he described current public polices in the book. He incorporated our present day to the Rusties with the topic of oil use. He also explained that the process of becoming pretty is what we consider plastic surgery nowadays. The main point of his interview was describing how our definition of beauty changes over the years. He explained that a hundred years ago Europeans believed pale skin was a beauty, but now being tan is considered beauty.
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