Tally In The Uglies

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Justice is just the behavior or a treatment. In the novel the uglies, the main chacternamed Tally was in some significant way to justice. In the way that when Tally was young she had always wanted to be a “pretty” and more to the other town with all the others because that's was the usual plan for everyone in ugly town. As tallys best friend was a year older than her, tally was upset when her only best friend left to became a pretty and start a new life in the other town. Tally had broken the law one night to go see her best friend, because an ugly can never enter pretty town until they undergo the process. When she came back tally had decided that she didn't want to because a pretty anymore, she was okay with herself and didn't

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