Tally Youngblood

Tally Youngblood is the main character in Scott Westerfield’s Uglies; Her characterization advances the theme of inner strength in the story. Tally is blackmailed into betraying her friend. Dr. Cable, a woman of high rankings, refuses to grant Tally permission to undergo a surgery to make her gorgeous unless Tally betrays her friend Shay. Tally is given orders to search for and uncover a secret society specified as the Smoke. Tally is a vulnerable, young girl whose only wish is to be transformed into an attractive woman in the beginning of Uglies. Despite the agreement between Dr. Cable and Tally, Tally decides to live at the Smoke. Nonetheless, Dr. Cables organization, Special Circumstances, discovers the location of the Smoke. Her time…

Westerfeld was published by Simon Pulse Publishing on May 2011 and contains 406 pages. The Uglies is a science fiction novel about Tally Youngblood, a teenage girl, living in Uglyville, who is trying to decide the truth of the pretty operation and the importance of her friends. The Uglies is the first of the four books in the Ugly series. Tally Youngblood, the main character in this novel, is a fifteen year old girl that lives in Uglyville. The author makes Tally seem skinny super athletic…

In Uglies, at age of sixteen, Tally Youngblood is struggling to speak up when she “couldn’t explain that she [has] come here as a spy, or David will never trust her again” (Westerfield 275). Tally is glad that nobody knows the truth temporarily because everyone is happy when the truth is not been told. But how many pressures would Tally feel if she decides to hide the truth for her entire life? She should speak up about the what had truly happened, but how could it be easy if it would possibly…

represent grit and determination by characters in the book Uglies, such as Tally Youngblood. Uglies is a dystopian type novel set in the future, written by Scott Westerfeld. It features a sixteen year old girl, named Tally Youngblood. Tally, had lived in a society where the majority of the people had cosmetic surgery to enhance beauty when they reach sixteen-years-of-age. So when Special Circumstances seized her only opportunity of undergoing surgery, she reluctantly agreed to navigate through…

Uglies, Tally Youngblood is just another ugly longing for her sixteenth birthday on which she is to turn pretty. All is well until she finds out that being pretty isn’t really as beautiful as it seems. Throughout the novel the theme of appearance showed great importance to many of the characters. Having beautiful features is not what’s truly important in life. Having a beautiful heart and mind is what actually matters. Appearance was the underlying theme of the story for many reasons. Tally was…

seeing things. In Uglies, it displays the journey and development of a young fifteen year old girl named Tally Youngblood. She starts off having her whole life planned out in front of her; however, she later begins thinking about what she really wants when she explores other parts of the world. Tally goes through major changes and learning experiences to gradually find herself as she explores the wild. She eventually comes to terms with reality and learns what normal should really be like. Tally…

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…

Westerfeld, the main character Tally feels this way. Throughout the book, Tally has people laughing or being shocked about the actions that is being done or has brought to the area. Tally thinks that both people in both civilizations will act the opposite way of how they really had reacted. Tally has both the pretties and Uglies react to her actions when special circumstances comes and Tally is caught in front of everyone, being caught by the pretties in one of the apartment buildings in New…

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…

ideology is captured in a riveting way in Scott Westerfeld’s novel Uglies. In the book, the main character, Tally Youngblood, is living in a society that suggests from the ages of 12 to 16, one is considered ugly and pretty much sent into exile until their sixteenth birthday, where an operation is performed to make them “pretty.” It sounds a bit ridiculous, but adolescents today can probably relate to this feeling of banishment in their few years of awkwardness. Consider for a moment what it…