Uglies Scott Westerfeld Analysis

Decent Essays
Jason Dang
Professor Hartwig
ENGL 110
5 February 2018
Exigence
In the Novel, Uglies, Scott Westerfeld looks at the current world situation where every young person feels the need to be attractive and portrays a perception of what the world will be like in the future. Many young people think that the only way to confine in the society is to become physically attractive. The contemporary society, then introduces many plastic surgeries that one can undergo to become beautiful. With this in mind, Scott Westerfeld tells a story of what the world might come to, where cities agreed that your sixteenth birthday marks the transition from ‘Ugly’ to ‘Pretty’ through a series of extreme surgery. The transition is meant to reduce conflict by making everyone to better conform to certain beauty standards. Tally Youngblood cannot wait to reach her sixteenth birthday so that she can now become ‘Pretty’ and reunite with her friends.
In every society, there are those people who are
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Just as Tally came to realize later, an individual is described by what is on the inside and not on the outside. In the end, Tally felt guilty for leading the authorities to The Smoke and for what they did to everyone she met at The Smoke including her friend Shay, who was turned pretty. She realized that being ‘Pretty’ was not pretty at all.
Scott also talks to the government or authorities, who control almost everything in a person’s life. The modern states manage our money, health care, independence and even food supply. In the book, the authorities controlled ordinary people to think that they are ugly, and only a series of operations could make them pretty. Furthermore, the government made people believe that the only way to live was the pretty way. In addition, the government controlled Tally’s life by forcing her to turn in her friend, an action that later frustrated

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