3) Characters and their transformation

Uglies

Scott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction who was born in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. In 2005, he published Uglies, a best-seller which is the first tome of an eponymous trilogy whose second tome is called Pretties and whose third tome is called Specials. Uglies is about Tally Younglood, a fifteen-year-old girl, who lives in a future dystopian world. Indeed, in this society people are considered as ''Ugly'' until they have a cosmetic surgery to become ''Pretty'' on their sixteenth birthday. Yet, this cosmetic surgery turns out to be a manipulation organised by society in order to control the population. Moreover, this surgery changes your personnality and your way of thinking. At first, Tally refuses to believe it in so far as she has always wanted to be '' Pretty '' and is willing to have the cosmetic surgery. But later, one of her friends called Shay decides to flee a few days before her sixteenth birthday so as not to have the cosmetic surgery. Unlike what Tally thinks, a lot of people decide not to have the surgery and flee as soon as they turn sixteen, although it is forbidden because the surgery is obligatory, to a god forsaken spot called The Smoke. This town is a few days away from Tally's town and its inhabitants are all '' Uglies '' who have refused to have the cosmetic surgery and therefore have decided to stay '' Ugly ''. From now on, Tally is going to choose if it is whether better to stay and have the cosmetic surgery or better to refuse to become '' Pretty '' and join the '' Uglies '' in The Smoke.

6) The world of imagination.

Inception

Inception is an action and science-fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, which was released in 2010, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Dominic Cobb, Ellen Page as Ariane, Marion Cotillard as Mallorie Cobb and Cillian Murphy as Robert Michael Fischer Junior. It deals with Dominic Cobb, an extractor (that is to say, someone who infiltrates people's dreams in order to get an information in particular out of them), who goes into exile so as to flee the police. Cobb's wife, Mallorie, has been found dead and some proofs make the police thinks Cobb is guilty, that's why he is sought. Saito (Ken Watanabe), who is a businessman and who knows him because Cobb previously visited his subconscious, tells him that he will delete those accusations on condition that Cobb agrees to perform an '' inception '' on Robert Michael Fischer Junior, owing to his father, Maurice Fischer (Pete Postlethwaite) who is dying and, consequently, is going to pass along his business to his son. Saito would like, by the way of the inception (implanting an idea in somebody's subconscious through his dreams), that Fischer Junior let his father's business (which competes with Saito's one) down in order to create his own company, despite his father's one is very successful. Cobb accepts, since he wants to come back home in Los Angeles where he left his two children, Philippa and James, with his parents-in-law. What's more, he would like this mission to be the last one and to stop his carreer. Then, Cobb will gather his team made up of his usual colleagues (except for Ariane) and they'll go on adventures where reality and dream are hardly differentiable.

 

5) Travels, initiatory journeys, exile.

Lord of the Flies

Lord Of The Flies is a drama and black and white film directed by Peter Brook, based on William Golding's novel of the same name, starring James Aubrey and Tom Chapin as the main actors. It was shot in 1961 but was only released two years later, in 1963. This film adaptation deals with a group of British schoolboys stranded on a desert island after they had survived a plane crash. They are left with no adults in the context of the Second World War. As they want to succeed in remaining civilized British boys, they start to etablish rules and to vote for a leader in order to create their own micro-society. The boys are divided into two groups : the first one, managing by Ralph (who is made chief), build shelters and stay by the fire while the second one, managing by Jack, hunt to feed everyone. But a rivalry starts growing between Ralph and Jack as they both want to be in charge. Jack and his group gradually turn into savages whereas Ralph tries to keep his group civilized, so as to behave as they were taught during their upbringing. Finally, this hostility will lead to an unexpected and bloody climax.
The title is referring to the emblem of Jack's group : the head of a wild pig drove into a stick, which attracts a lot of flies since it is dead.

4) The writer in his or her time.

Just One Look

Harlan Coben, said to be '' the modern master of the hook-and-twist luring you in on the first page… only to shock you on the last '' according to Dan Brown (author of The DaVinci Code), is an American best-selling author of mystery novels and thrillers who was born in 1962 in Newark, New Jersey. His novels are critically-acclaimed and it's probably the reason why Coben is the first author who has won the three major prices of American suspense literature (Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony Award). In 2004, he published Just One Look, a thriller which deals with Grace Lawson, a woman married to a guy called Jack Lawson with whom she has got two children. After she had picked them up from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs in which she finds a mysterious picture from fifteen years ago. At first, Grace doesn't manage to recognize a single person in the five strangers that the photo is showing but then she realizes that there is actually one person that she knows very well: her husband. Later, as soon as her husband comes back home, she shows him the picture and asks him if it's really him on it, just for the record. Jack answers no but Grace keep doubting. Then, while she's waiting in the bedroom, she hears the sound of a car starting. Consequently, she looks through the window and sees her husband leaving their home although he didn't inform her of his departure or even explain to her why he decided to drive off and, furthermore, right after they talked about the mysterious picture. Therefore, the next day, Grace decides to inquire about the people on it because she feels that Jack is in trouble and that, besides, this picture is the reason why.

Lettuce be friends ! (haha haha... ok)

• So, in order to introduce myself, my name is Chloe, I'm sixteen so I'm in the 11^th grade and this thing is for English Literature. For this class, I have to create a blog where I have to tell about any kind of work of art, like for example books, films, music, or paintings. 
• I probably won't talk about the last one, not that I hate PAINTINGS but because I don't like the way painters of our generation represent things, sometimes it's just two features and several colors mixed together and I don't really think this is art 'cause it don't represent anything in particular so I don't understand how people can seriously buy those things ten thousand pounds or more and put them in their living room. 
• Anyway, let's talk about something interesting : BOOKS. For me, books are more than something boring you have to read for school because you are going to have a test on it. Books are a way to escape from reality, from your daily-life. When you read a book you automatically create a film in your head, which is actually great because it can surprise you and make you feel as if you are living or witnessing the scenes you are reading, especially when the scenes describe something which can not happen in reality because it forces you to picture it in your mind. Moreover, there are plenty of books which can please you because there are so many genres and so many authors that you can't say '' I hate books, all of them '', because it means you had only read the boring books gave by your teachers and, as a result, you are just boring as well.
• To move on, let's talk about something I also like : FILMS. My favourite films are definitely Horror films. In my opinion, they are really entertaining but only if I watch them with other persons so as a consequence it makes me laugh and not pee in my pants. Wow that was awkward.. but I also like to watch others types of films, like for instance the last good movie I saw was Dark Shadows I think, I really liked that film since it was pleasant and quite funny. On the other hand, I don't often go to the pictures so when I do I don't watch crappy films like Project X (it's just my opinion, please don't slap me). 
• Finally, MUSIC is for me, and for everybody I suppose, an important thing because I listen to it everyday, it changes my mood in a good or in a bad way and furthermore, there are lots of great artists who can really change your day by listening to their voices (not the ones changed with autotune but the real ones), make you smile, give you gooseflesh and I think it's fantastic.

Have a good day ! xoxo