Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is about a world where everybody is eager to turn 16. They all are so eager to turn 16 because when you get there, that's when you turn “Pretty”. The kids turn pretty from a surgery that they receive. The surgery is really intense, the surgeon's change everything about the person's appearance, they go as far as to rub all their skin off and let it grow back in perfect conditions. In their world, people are split up into three towns, Uglyville, New Pretty Town, and the community where the late “Pretties” live. Everyone before they're 16 is known as an ugly. They are programmed to hate themselves, until they are pretty. The main character, Tally has anticipated her surgery for her whole life. She wanted her surgery
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In Uglies the only way to escape your surgery is to run away, to a place called the Smoke. That's exactly what Shay does, she doesn't care about her surgery so she leaves to be with her friends, who had also left previously before they had their surgery. The Special Circumstances weren't really that happy about Shay leaving, so they looked to Tally. They knew how much she wanted to be a Pretty and they used that against her until she told them what she knew about Shay’s disappearance. Tally helped them, only because she wanted to be pretty so much, that she chose her looks over her friends happiness. Shay had this philosophy that everyone didn't need the surgery, because they were normal. “We’re not freaks, Tally. We’re normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we’re not hyped-up Barbie dolls.” Westerfeld 82. The girls have really grown up in an environment that was self-loathing and materialistic. “But it’s a trick, Tally. You’ve only seen pretty faces your whole life. Your parents, your teachers, everyone over sixteen. But you weren’t born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.” Westerfeld …show more content…
That everyone has to be pretty to succeed in life. Uglies was published in 2006, but there was definitely some foreshadowing. He might now have meant to, but the plot of Uglies is saying “if you don't look a certain way, you have to hate yourself until you make the change to fit the social normal.” As to now? Media dictates how people look and how people should think they look. The girls made models of how they wanted to look for their surgery. They had to give the surgeons what they wanted to look like but, did they really have to change so much? The next Tally was a much more standard morphological model, with almond-shaped brown eyes, straight black hair with long bangs, the dark lips set to maximum Westerfeld 39-40. “Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.” Westerfeld 334. The media now, really is acting as Dr.Cable, the Special Circumstances trying to find Shay. Shes trying to get Shay back because she rebelled against what was wanted to be the normal thing for every 16 year
In Uglies the only way to escape your surgery is to run away, to a place called the Smoke. That's exactly what Shay does, she doesn't care about her surgery so she leaves to be with her friends, who had also left previously before they had their surgery. The Special Circumstances weren't really that happy about Shay leaving, so they looked to Tally. They knew how much she wanted to be a Pretty and they used that against her until she told them what she knew about Shay’s disappearance. Tally helped them, only because she wanted to be pretty so much, that she chose her looks over her friends happiness. Shay had this philosophy that everyone didn't need the surgery, because they were normal. “We’re not freaks, Tally. We’re normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we’re not hyped-up Barbie dolls.” Westerfeld 82. The girls have really grown up in an environment that was self-loathing and materialistic. “But it’s a trick, Tally. You’ve only seen pretty faces your whole life. Your parents, your teachers, everyone over sixteen. But you weren’t born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.” Westerfeld …show more content…
That everyone has to be pretty to succeed in life. Uglies was published in 2006, but there was definitely some foreshadowing. He might now have meant to, but the plot of Uglies is saying “if you don't look a certain way, you have to hate yourself until you make the change to fit the social normal.” As to now? Media dictates how people look and how people should think they look. The girls made models of how they wanted to look for their surgery. They had to give the surgeons what they wanted to look like but, did they really have to change so much? The next Tally was a much more standard morphological model, with almond-shaped brown eyes, straight black hair with long bangs, the dark lips set to maximum Westerfeld 39-40. “Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.” Westerfeld 334. The media now, really is acting as Dr.Cable, the Special Circumstances trying to find Shay. Shes trying to get Shay back because she rebelled against what was wanted to be the normal thing for every 16 year