Westerfield’s Uglies is a society that is purely dependent on age. A person’s age in the society is what determines where they live and what they can do with their life. For instance, the youngest children live with the middle aged group of people until they turn twelve, which is when all the children move into dorm style living. The society appeals to readers because everyone gets to choose exactly what they look like, and nobody hates anyone. There is no war or any major crimes that make citizens scared for their wellbeing. Although, the reason there is no war, crime, or hatred is because there are lesions in everyone's brains. The society is foreboding because everyone has lesions in their brain that alter their feelings. The city Tally
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These lesions prevent creativity, violence, and apathy. It also allows them to constantly be satisfied with life and forget all past grudges. For instance, before Shay had surgery, she hated Tally because she believed that Tally stole David from her. Post-surgery, Shay was completely fine with the idea of David and Tally being together. She even was happy that Tally loved him (378; ch. 46). The surgery allows people to think they are getting exactly what they want, while altering their brains so they can have a stable society. Uglies focuses on three main outcasts: Shay, Tally, and David. Shay is an different from everyone else in the city because she was never interested in getting the surge like all the other uglies. For instance, when Tally was making a pretend morphological model(what one looks like after the surgery), Shay said she had never made one. Tally proceeded to think, “Everyone made morphos, even littlies, too young for their facial structure to have set. It was a great waste of a day, figuring out all the different way you could look when you finally became pretty” (40; ch.
These lesions prevent creativity, violence, and apathy. It also allows them to constantly be satisfied with life and forget all past grudges. For instance, before Shay had surgery, she hated Tally because she believed that Tally stole David from her. Post-surgery, Shay was completely fine with the idea of David and Tally being together. She even was happy that Tally loved him (378; ch. 46). The surgery allows people to think they are getting exactly what they want, while altering their brains so they can have a stable society. Uglies focuses on three main outcasts: Shay, Tally, and David. Shay is an different from everyone else in the city because she was never interested in getting the surge like all the other uglies. For instance, when Tally was making a pretend morphological model(what one looks like after the surgery), Shay said she had never made one. Tally proceeded to think, “Everyone made morphos, even littlies, too young for their facial structure to have set. It was a great waste of a day, figuring out all the different way you could look when you finally became pretty” (40; ch.