...them pretty when they become sixteen. Tally Youngblood is a typical “ugly”, and lives in Uglyville with other people like herself. She cannot wait until she turns pretty, then she will live in Prettyville and constantly be surrounded beautiful people. Tally admires these beautiful people from afar and wishes she could be one of them. She does not look at inner beauty and only sees what is on the outside of people. Because of this, she views herself and the other people in her town as ugly, when in reality these people are really the beautiful ones since their brains are not affected. They have the ability to make good decisions because their entire mindsets have not been altered. Unfortunately, much of society today also views beauty as being attractive on the outside; however, many people in our current society also look inside people and get to see beauty for what it really is and what it was intended to be. There are many people with “ugly” looks who are still beautiful because of their inner beauty. People can be average-looking and beautiful because of what they are made up of inside. Also, people can be beautiful on the inside and outside. Magnarelli 2 There are many people who have walked this earth that show us the true meaning of beauty, such as Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesus Christ, and his mother, Mary. All though many people in society know and acknowledge this, the media shares much of the same view as Tally. If the media could understand real beauty...
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...to get to the graduation ceremony symbolises a milestone is Cia’s life as she is going to be an adult. After learning her father’s secret about the Testing, Cia went to pack her bags and choses two items that she could bring along with her. One of the items she chose was Zeen’s “small handheld device called a Transit Communicator” which has “a compass, a calculator, and a communication system”(38-39). This is a perfect survival tool and it also symbolises a piece of her home and a reminder to keep her family safe. One important motif in the story is the recurring deaths of Testing candidates to show the theme of social darwinism. Another motif was the demolished and revitalized cities that appears multiple times in the story such as Chicago,...
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