“When she awoke, the world was on Fire.” (Westerfield 164) She saw fields on fire, and all that can come to her head was to run. Fear was alive in her body and she had a different mindset. Tally was going to be pretty, but to get there she has to risk her life, just to change her face. To get what you want in life one has to endure a lot, just to get one’s way. Tally, the main character in Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, is a regular citizen of Uglyville but as she is about to turn pretty she has to report something that is close to her heart and her friends heart. Tally’s main concern is being pretty, but has to endure hardship, fear, and compassion to find that pretty is ugly. Being pretty seems perfect, you turn sixteen and then a few weeks
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When she got there Tally just wanted to report the Smoke and get it done and over with, but when she heard the stories of what it took to get it all there here whole concept on the Smoke changed. Tally had mixed emotions on what would the right thing for her to do. “Over his years of helping runaways to find the Smoke, David had encountered wild animals, forest fires, and bio-engineered poisonous plants. But nothing was more dangerous than a city afraid of change.” (Westerfield) She did not know what David has devoted to the Smoke. She thought it was just woods, little did she know that people live there and love it there. They all have a reason to be there and for Tally to just unravel the secretive smoke to others would just make her selfish. And that is what she was scared of. She did not let the special circumstances know. Tally inadvertently let Special Circumstances know by throwing the trinket into a fire. Special Circumstances came and completely destroyed the Smoke and the People. She ran from them but after she came to rescue the citizens in New Pretty Town. She showed something that she has never felt before, she helped David get himself together by finding his family and his community. Even Tally is confusing she still has a soft side, and she is will to help David even though it seems she does not
When she got there Tally just wanted to report the Smoke and get it done and over with, but when she heard the stories of what it took to get it all there here whole concept on the Smoke changed. Tally had mixed emotions on what would the right thing for her to do. “Over his years of helping runaways to find the Smoke, David had encountered wild animals, forest fires, and bio-engineered poisonous plants. But nothing was more dangerous than a city afraid of change.” (Westerfield) She did not know what David has devoted to the Smoke. She thought it was just woods, little did she know that people live there and love it there. They all have a reason to be there and for Tally to just unravel the secretive smoke to others would just make her selfish. And that is what she was scared of. She did not let the special circumstances know. Tally inadvertently let Special Circumstances know by throwing the trinket into a fire. Special Circumstances came and completely destroyed the Smoke and the People. She ran from them but after she came to rescue the citizens in New Pretty Town. She showed something that she has never felt before, she helped David get himself together by finding his family and his community. Even Tally is confusing she still has a soft side, and she is will to help David even though it seems she does not