Tally Youngblood, from the novel Pretties by Scott Westerfeld, just wants to be free. The city has been controlling her ever since she was a littlie and now Special Circumstances has an even tighter hold on her. They made her Pretty and put lesions in her brain so that she is always happy, and always does what she is told. Then something happens and she realizes that she needs to escape. To free herself from the power of the Specials. Tally’s struggle to free herself greatly affects herself, the story, and the theme of the novel. Tally’s greatest struggle was to free herself from the power of others. She was happy with her Pretty life, that is, until Croy, a Smokie from her past, suddenly reappears. He gives her the cure for the brain lesions.
