Tally Youngblood

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld takes place 300 years from now. There are two main cities, Uglyville and Pretty Town, and one hidden town that no one dares to go in, The smoke. The story takes place 300 years into the future. Tally Youngblood, fifth teen years old, she lives in Uglyville and is longing to turn sixteen years old to become a pretty. While she is trying to accomplish her long set goal she, of course, runs into problems, new friends, and new threats. In my opinion, the book was well…

Prettys. The main character Tally Youngblood's 16th birthday is coming up and she is scared to have the operation to turn Pretty. Tally's best friend Peris is a few months older than her and has already turned pretty and she misses him. So she decides that she is going to go outside of Uglie Town and go to New Pretty Town to see Peris. On her way back from seeing Peris, she meets Shay, a daredevil that is not scared of anything. Shay and Tally get really close when Shay tells Tally about the…

society's beauty standards. In Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, Tally Youngblood thinks having supermodel looks are the key to life, but when realizing the hard truth, everything she believed became one big lie. A significant passage of the book occurs when “One new legend towered above all the rest. Maddy had decided that the brain lesions couldn’t be kept a secret anymore; every ugly had the right to know what the operation really entailed. Tally and the others spread the rumor among their city…

show how their world values appearances. The story starts with a protagonist named Tally Youngblood, a fifteen-year-old girl waiting for her sixteenth birthday to receive a cosmetic surgery that she has been waiting for throughout her life. She awaits to transform into a Pretty so that she can conform to the societal standards of beauty and be included in New Pretty Town. However, a journey follows on where Tally realises the downsides to becoming a Pretty. The major argument the story explores…

parties . This so-called utopia mirrors the society represented in Scott Westerfeld's Uglies, which criticizes both modern-day society as well as envisions the future of the where society will be heading towards. The novel follows the story of Tally Youngblood, a fifteen-year-old “ugly”, desperately waiting for her sixteenth birthday when she will finally undergo the surgery that will transform her into a “pretty.” Westerfield's critiques…