![]() ![]() Being under pressure to fit into a certain beauty ideal, the people in our society are victims of a beauty mania, which demands a lot. High prices are paid for a beautyful face or a slim figure. At the same time it is obvious, that this world of glamour and flawlessness is moreoften a world of sham and pretence. We envy them for their beauty, their fame and their lifestyle. In our recent society beauty is a privilege, which leads to success, money and an unbridled lovelife. Their pretty faces, their beguiling smiles and glamourous appearances have a great influence on our idea of being beautiful. Television, social platforms and advertisments are full of them: successful, rich and irresistibly attractive people. Elements of dystopian fiction in the bookġ0.2 The young age of a female protagonistġ2. Cosmetic surgery in “Uglies” and criticism of our recent societyġ0. Cosmetic surgery and modern beauty trends as a part of our societyĩ. The beauty ideal in “Uglies” and parallels to our recent societyĨ. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Published in 44 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (complex), Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. As Brida seeks her destiny, she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to become a witch. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her to trust in the goodness of the world, and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom. ![]() Goodreads members who liked A Bride in the Bargain also liked: A Ta. Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Find books like A Bride in the Bargain from the world’s largest community of readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The S***s, Skaters, Geeks, Nerds, Freaks, and Pretty Ones all make up the vast majority of the student body. By now gang members made an identity for themselves by dying their hair color. David and Will live within the sealed-off walls of McKinley High for over a year. Every two weeks, supplies are dropped off to keep them alive it is here where students brawl it out Hunger-Games-Cornucopia- style for their basic essentials. The school quickly falls to chaos and groups of students ban together to increase their odds of survival. To prevent the spread of the virus, the school is put under a military quarantine. ![]() As it turns out, all of the students in the school are carriers of a deadly super virus that thrives on the bodies of prepubescent teenagers, to all others, the virus is deathly toxic. It is the first day of school when suddenly half of the school is blown up and all of the adults die horrible and gruesome deaths. In the first installment of the Quarantine series, we are introduced to brothers David and Will Thorpe. ![]() |