Blog Post #6 "Shay"

Write a one paragraph summary of the chapter.

Tally escapes from the Mansion and runs toward the garden. When she is crawling through the brush, she thinks she sees a park warden. The person is actually an Ugly. Her name is Shay.


What have you learned about Shay? Is she like Tally? Make a prediction about what will happen between Tally and Shay.

Shay is an Ugly who spys on her friends who have become Pretties. She likes to sneak around. She is pretty much exactly like Tally. I think Shay will be caught in New Pretty Town and will not become a Pretty while Tally will.

Blog Post #5 "Best Friends Forever"

Why do you think New Pretty Town advocates bungee jumping?

I think they advocate it so they can train people to use them in case of a fire in a party tower.


Find information about the history of bungee jumping and post it along with the website URL.

The word "bungee" (pronounced /ˈbʌndʒiː/) originates from West Country dialect, meaning "Anything thick and squat", as defined by James Jennings in his book "Observations of Some of the Dialects in The West of England" published 1825. Around 1930 the name became used for a rubber eraser. The word bungy, as used by A J Hackett, is said to be "Kiwi slang for an Elastic Strap".[4] Cloth-covered rubber cords with hooks on the ends have been available for decades under the generic name bungee cords.
In the 1950s David Attenborough and a BBC film crew brought back footage of the "land divers" of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, young men who jumped from tall wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles as a test of their courage and passage into manhood.[5] A similar practice, only with a much slower pace for falling, has been practiced as the Danza de los Voladores de Papantla or the 'Papantla flyers' of central Mexico, a tradition dating back to the days of the Aztecs.
A tower 4,000 feet high with a system to drop a “car” suspended by a cable of “best rubber” was proposed for the Chicago World Fair, 1892-1893. The car, seating two hundred people, would be shoved from a platform on the tower and then bounce to a stop. The designer engineer suggested that for safety the ground below “be covered with eight feet of feather bedding”. The proposal was declined by the Fair’s organizers.[6]

Bungee at Kawarau Bridge
The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the 250-foot Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, by David Kirke, Chris Baker, Simon Keeling, Tim Hunt and Alan Weston of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club.[7] The jumpers were arrested shortly after, but continued with jumps in the US from the Golden Gate and Royal Gorge bridges, (this last jump sponsored by and televised on the American program That's Incredible) spreading the concept worldwide. By 1982 they were jumping from mobile cranes and hot air balloons. Commercial bungee jumping began with the New Zealander, A J Hackett, who made his first jump from Auckland's Greenhithe Bridge in 1986.[8] During the following years Hackett performed a number of jumps from bridges and other structures (including the Eiffel Tower), building public interest in the sport, and opening the world's first permanent commercial bungee site; the Kawarau Bridge Bungy at Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand.[9] Hackett remains one of the largest commercial operators, with concerns in several countries.
Despite the inherent danger of jumping from a great height, several million successful jumps have taken place since 1980. This is attributable to bungee operators rigorously conforming to standards and guidelines governing jumps, such as double checking calculations and fittings for every jump. As with any sport, injuries can still occur (see below), and there have been fatalities. A relatively common mistake in fatality cases is to use a cord that is too long. The cord should be substantially shorter than the height of the jumping platform to allow it room to stretch. When the cord reaches its natural length the jumper either starts to slow down or keeps accelerating depending upon the speed of descent. One may not even start to slow until the cord has been stretched a significant amount, because the cord's resistance to distortion is zero at the natural length, and increases only gradually after, taking some time to even equal the jumper's weight. See also Potential energy for a discussion of the spring constant and the force required to distort bungee cords and other spring-like objects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungee_jumping

Blog Post #4 "Best Friends Forever"

Characterization: Tally

• She is an Ugly
• She wants to be a Pretty so she can see Peris again.
• She can't wait to see Peris so she goes into New Pretty Town to see him.

Characterization: Peris

• He is a Pretty.
• Was best friends with Tally as an Ugly.
• goes to parties all the time.

How do you feel about the friendship of Tally and Peris? Are they true best friends? Why or Why not?

I don't think they are true best friends because when she asked him if they were still friends, He said yes kind of sarcastically.

Blog Post #3 "New Pretty Town"

Find and Quote ONE oxymoron from the chapter or ONE example of irony. (Quote it directly)

"She could see New Pretty Town through her open window."



Why do you think Tally Chose to wear a mask to the party that was deemed "white tie".

She did not want people to have people know she was ugly.


Find information about the history of masks and post it. How does this relate to Tally's decision?

Masks have been designed in innumerable varieties, from the simplest of crude “false faces” held by a handle to complete head coverings with ingenious movable parts and hidden faces. Mask makers have shown great resourcefulness in selecting and combining available materials. Among the substances utilized are woods, metals, shells, fibers, ivory, clay, horn, stone, feathers, leather, furs, paper, cloth, and corn husks. Surface treatments have ranged from rugged simplicity to intricate carving and from polished woods and mosaics to gaudy adornments.Masks generally are worn with a costume, often so complete that it entirely covers the body of the wearer. Fundamentally the costume completes the new identity represented by the mask, and usually tradition prescribes its appearance and construction to the same extent as the mask itself. Costumes, like the masks, are made of a great variety of materials, all of which have a symbolic connection with the mask's total imagery. Ideally the costume should be seen with the mask while the wearer is in action.The morphological elements of the mask are with few exceptions derived from natural forms. Masks with human features are classified as anthropomorphic and those with animal characteristics as theriomorphic. In some instances, the mask form is a replication of natural features or closely follows the lineaments of reality, and in other instances it is an abstraction. Masks usually represent supernatural beings, ancestors, and fanciful or imagined figures and can also be portraits. The localization of a particular spirit in a specific mask must be considered a highly significant reason for its existence.The change in identity of the wearer for that of the mask is vital, for if the spirit represented does not reside in the image of the mask, the ritual petitions, supplications, and offerings made to it would be ineffectual and meaningless. The mask, therefore, most often functions as a means of contact with various spirit powers, thereby protecting against the unknown forces of the universe by prevailing upon their potential beneficence in all matters relative to life. http://www.anymask.com/historyofmask.html

Masks helped Tally hide her identity.

Blog Post #2 "New Pretty Town"

Have you ever had a friend like Peris who abandoned your friendship after moving? Explain.

Yes I have. My friend Ben from when I was 4 years old moved to another state. He said we couldn't be friends anymore because he was moving. It made me very sad.

Define the following terms:

1) interface ring - a ring worn by Pretties and Uglies for cars to detect where pedestrians are.

2) toothbrush pill - a pill taken by Pretties and Uglies to brush their teeth for them.

3) cacophony - a drum machine used by the Pretties for impromtu parades through the town.

Blog Post #1 "Before Reading"

How do you define beauty? What would the world be like if everyone was beautiful?



I define beauty by a character trait of a person who is happy with who they are.




Post a picture of something you find beautiful, and something you find ugly and explain the reasoning behind these choices in a paragraph.


I put the puppy on because puppies are always cute. I put the toad on because it is covered in warts.