Outside Reading Post #6

After Tally gets dropped off by the rangers at the special meeting place, she is reunited with Shay, and meets her friends David and Croy. This is the legendary David that Tally had heard about all the time with Shay, and she gets to know him and the Smoke better. Tally feels it's kind of suspicious that it took her so long to get to the Smoke, so she makes up wild stories of adventures that she encountered on her journey. Tally explores the Smoke, and finds that everything is done by hand, nothing is given automatically, like at home in the city. At first this is hard to get used to, but this way of life begins to grow on her, yet she still is supposed to press the button on the tracker Special Circumstances gave her to be able to find where she is. David starts to like Tally, which makes Shay jealous, he even introduces her to his parents, who were former doctors in the city. At the part I am, Shay is mad at Tally for taking her love, and Tally is confused about whether she should stay, or expose the whole city to Special Circumstances.

Outside Reading Post #5

Tally sets off on the journey to find the smoke with the very confusing directions that Shay gave her. It was a kind of riddle, so that Special Circumstances wouldn't be able to decode it. Tally starts out her journey, and encounters obstacles along the way, such as almost being sucked under the current of the river, getting lost numerous times, having her clothes fly away while bathing in the river, and almost being torched in a field of flowers. The field of flowers was on fire because a group of elder Pretties set fire to them to prevent them from spreading like a virus. They pick up Tally in their helecopter, and she finds out that they are in alliance with the people in the Smoke,and they drop off any runaways they find at a special place where the Smokies come retrieve them. Tally doesn't really understand why they don't report these people to Special Circumstances, but they are Rangers and that's what they do.

Outside Reading Post #4

This book has taken a new spin in the pages I have read since my last post. Tally was sent back to Uglyville after being denied her change into a Pretty, and she has had visits from her parents, and surprisingly, her old best friend Peris. All of these visitors have tried to convince her that she should just forget her promise to Shay, and become a Pretty, which she is destined to do. Finally, they succeeded in convincing her, even though in the back of her head Tally knew this was wrong. So Tally goes back to the Special Circumstance building and tells them that she will tell everything she knows about Shay. This isn't enough for these people however, they tell her that she has to follow the directions Shay gave her to escape, and then call them so that they can bust Shay, and everyone else who has escaped. Tally doesn't really want to do this, but will do anything to be a Pretty. So Tally sets out on her journey following the directions Shay gave her...

Blog #4

A howling quartet
stood in the shape of a quadrangle
on the fourth of may
when four great whales came by on a quadcycle
they were drinking butane
and fell off their quadcycle

Outside Reading Post #3

When Shay brings Tally out to the Old Town- "Rusty Town", she tells Tally of a guy named David that she knows that she wants to meet there. He doesn't show up after they set a flare, so they go home, but Tally is left wondering about the world outside her own city, and the fact that there could be other cities and people out there. It's almost time for Tally and Shay to become Pretties, but right before the operation, Shay tells Tally that she's running away to find David and stay Ugly forever, and she wants Tally to join her. Tally is appalled by this, she's been waiting her whole life to become pretty, so she stays behind while Shay escapes forever. Shay had given her directions to meet her if she changed her mind, but Tally just ignored them. When Tally goes in to get her operation on her birthday, they tell her that there's a problem with her surgery, and she has to meet with a lady about "special circumstances". She finds out that Shay was involved with some kind of gang, and they know that Tally was friends with her, so until she reveals where Shay went and how she got there, they wont perform the operation. Tally sticks to her promise with Shay and doesn't reveal the secret, so they send her back to Uglyville. This is how far I am, but I wasn't really surprised that Tally didn't go with Shay because it's pretty obvious that she's anxious to become pretty. Now I am excited to find out what will happen next.

Blog #3

Number 1 poem:

There once was one singleton
who rode a unicycle through the woods.
He came across a unicorn with a unibrow.
They decided to race eachother out of the forest, and our solo singleton
came in first place.

Outside Reading Post #2

Tally reaches the Pretty party, and finally finds her old best friend Peris, but not after many peopole see her and realize she is an ugly. Peris helps her escape, and tells her she can never come back until she's Pretty, to stay safe, and Tally believes thats the only reason he doesn't want her to come back. On her escape away from the party, after bungee jumping off the roof of the party tower, and running through the "pleasure gardens" to get out of the Pretty Town, Tally runs into another Ugly, Shay, who becomes her new best friend. They find that they have the same birthday, and start connecting even more. Tally is so excited to become a Pretty, but it seems that Shay is kind of hesitant, and thinks that the whole idea of the operation is wrong, and everyone being the same is not appealing. I kind of agree with Shay, because I really think that everyone getting an operation at age 16 so that they can all be the same is a really weird idea, but to everyone in this book, it's normal. At the part of the book I am now, Shay has convinced Tally to sneak out into the "Old City" on their hoverboards. I'm beginning to realize that this book is about sometime in the future, and whenever they talk about the "old city", it's one of our modern cities today.