...years into this dystopian future, everyone turns pretty by a surgical operation once turning the age of 16. Tally Youngblood has 3 months until her 16th birthday and has waited her entire life for that moment. Her and her best friend Peris always pictured their life in New Pretty Town together where every day is a party and the only rule is to have fun. With Peris being 3 months older than Tally, therefore already turned, Tally’s on her own in Uglyville waiting for her 16th birthday to come. When Tally meets a new friend, Shay, who is not as certain as Tally about having the operation, she shares her thoughts on staying an ugly. Shortly after, a few days before their shared birthday, Shay reveals her plan to run away to a place outside the city called the Smoke. Shay tries to convince Tally to come with her to the Smoke but Tally denies the offer while trying to convince Shay to stay with Tally and become pretty with her. The next day, after Shay runs away, on their 16th birthday, Tally waiting anxiously in the hospital is confronted and taken to Special Circumstances. There she meets Dr. Cable, the head of...
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...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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...and New Pretty Town. This young girl is waiting on her operation to become pretty. Her name is Tally Youngblood and she was an ugly waiting to become pretty. Tally Youngblood is sneaky, smart, and a faithful friend to Paris and Shay. She made a promise to Paris. Paris had been her friend since they were little. He was her best friend; they did everything together, except they did not become pretty at the same time. So after all that Tally had gone to see Paris. When Tally came back to Ugly Ville, she met this girl name Shay and she was an ugly also. Tally and Shay were waiting to become pretty. They were going to become pretty at the same time, but Shay did not want to become pretty. She wanted to stay with her natural skin that she had. Tally in the story is really smart. When it was time for her to become pretty, she had to go down to the special circumstance. She knew that something was wrong when she had to go down there. She was looking concerned that she would not become pretty. When Tally got there she met this lady name Dr. Cable. Tally knew why she was here at the special circumstance and it was that Shay had gone missing. Tally was asked a couple of questions by Dr. Cable. Tally was answering a question with another question....
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