"The Uglies" Readers Response

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Readers Response Uglies by Scott Westerfeld centers around a character named Tally Youngblood who’s about to turn 16. In this society everyone is ugly but when they’re 16 they go through a procedure that makes you “pretty”. Early in the book Tally meets a girl named Shay who doesn’t agree with the society ways and has decided to not get the procedure to turn pretty. When Dr. Cable a secret police officier heres Tally and Shay talking about the procedure and the secret town where all the uglies go that don’t want to turn pretty. He decides to blackmail Tally so he can find the secret place and turn everyone pretty, if she doesn’t find the secret place he won’t turn her pretty. After finding the place she ends up liking the secret town and meeting a guy named David who persuades her to change her view on the procedure by doing that she destroys the tracker. Doing so Dr. Cable sends Special Circumstances in and arrest everyone, Tally and David escape. Tally and David go back to the city to rescue the other uglies, when they get to the city they find out the Shay has been turned pretty and David’s father is dead. David’s mother comes up with a solution to cure the brain damage when you get the procedure to become pretty, Tally decides to volunteer to be the guinea pig for David’s mother. I can relate this book to today’s society and how society wants you to look. In today’s society you’re not pretty unless you look,dress,eat,smile,talk a certain way etc. and if you don’t meet those ‘requirements” you’re frowned upon. In Tally’s society the only way they know is the procedure to become physically pretty, others are lucky to look beyond that like Shay. There are people in today’s society that see things the same way that Tally and Shay do. It shows how messed up the society is to brainwash everyone of what they should do from the very beginning to look a certain way and

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