Uglies
By: Scott Jakobsze
Summary
The book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is a fiction book which is based in a utopian society. Uglies is about a girl Tally Youngblood who is a 15 year-old that lives in this futuristic town where on your 16th birthday you have a surgery become a “pretty” and before then you are one of the “uglies”. In this society they value external beauty so that is why they have the surgery.
The storyline of the book is Tally’s friend (Peris) is older than her so he already got his surgery and she is left back. Tally meets and becomes friends with a new girl named Shay. Shay doesn’t want to become pretty but they argue about if it is good or bad. She teaches Tally how to ride a hoverboard and she tells Tally about a society outside of the town where no one is pretty called the Smoke, and she tries to convince her to go but Tally doesn’t want to go. The police have been watching Tally so the head of the police (Dr. Cable) makes her go so they can track her and shut down the secret town. If Tally doesn’t go with Shay then Dr. Cable won’t let her become pretty. So she has a big dilemma on her hands.Tally
Tally is a 15 year-old girl that has brown hair and greenish eyes. She is rebellious and brave when she goes to find her friend paris in New Pretty Town even though it is against the law and she causes a big commotion in pretty’s building.
Peris
Shay
Element of Conflict
Theme
Quotes
"I'm not afraid of looking the way I do, Tally. Maybe not, but you are afraid of growing up!"
I think this is a very important"quote because it shows how Tally doesn't want to grow up. She doesn't want to face reality and see this is who she is and surgery can't change you completely.
"Shay! Come on. It's just for fun." "Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun."
This is a very good quote because it shows how girls are these days too. They look at magazines or on the internet and see these amazing models and their self esteem sinks and they try to strive to look like that. The truth is that those women starve themselves they are also photo shopped at some points.