Curiosity
I blink my eyes in hope that the fear of the unknown will soon fade away into a beautiful memory that will last forever. I imagine all the possibilities in aspiration that none of them are as bad as in real life, as hard as I try the happiest moments seems to lose color when I think of them. I question who I am, I question where I came from, I question what life could have been like. I question if she thinks about me as much as I think of her. I wonder if I will ever get to see her again I wonder if she’s happy, I wonder if I have any siblings, I wonder if she has a photo of me like I have one of her. I feel let down I feel like a mistake, I feel lucky to have an amazing new family, I feel down that she doesn’t want to know more, I feel confused. It’s been fifteen years, so many thoughts have crossed my mind, but non of them will ever fulfill my hunger, as the day I will get to look her in the eyes and call her mom. |
Uglies Book Report
Reading Style #4
The book Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, describes a story of a teenager named Tally and her journey to discover the importance of being herself. The plot is supported by the locations where the story takes place. Tally grows up being herself, having the looks she was born with, and “acting natural” in the way she goes about her life. At one point she has to move to dormitory living with other early teenagers. This is where they live before they go through a procedure to make them “pretty”. Just about everyone accepts the transformation as normal, they don’t question it. What they don’t know is that the operation also changes their brain so that they think like everyone else, lose the ability to think for themselves, or question authority. After the operation the 16 year olds move to “New Pretty Town”, where they can stay up late, do what they want, and have a lot of fun, they just end up being like everyone else without any diversity. They also don’t question each others behavior or try to test themselves in things they do or ways they think. Later in the story Tally discovers a town, Smoke, that is a place where people can remain themselves. There they escape the “pretty” operation. It represents the way things were before the change occurs. Root Words
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