Character Analysis Of Tally Youngblood

In this day and age, society has built standards to how citizens should look, talk, wear, behave etc through social media, films, celebrities, friends and family. The youth has now taken place in this and now feel that if they did not meet society's standards, they aren’t beautiful or handsome. Some leaders and motivational speakers are good at telling others to love themselves and to accept how they look. Nevertheless there are still those who need to seek help and those who beat themselves up because of how they are. However is social conformity really the key to happiness? Social conformity is notoriously found in the book Uglies where turning 16 gives you the opportunity to undergo plastic surgery to change your appearance into a “pretty” look. Tally Youngblood is a rare example of a 16 year old girl who hasn’t undergo plastic surgery and was sent to the Smoke, a small town where those who don’t believe in plastic surgery or the society's ambitions go to live like the people of today. However Shay, a friends of Tally’s, is an example of an “ugly” who has a very strong opinion about the surgery, a very negative opinion about it.

In “Pretty” society, a clearly defined hierarchy exists between “Littlies”, “Uglies”, “New Pretties”, “Middle Pretties”, and “Late Pretties”. At age 16, each “Ugly” member of society undergoes an appearance altering operation to become “Pretty” on the pretense of social homogeneity. Tally begins her story as a stereotypically trouble-making Ugly, who—apart from “tricks”—adheres to her society’s laws and norms. On one particular excursion—a trick in which she infiltrates New Pretty Town—Tally makes contact with Peris, an adolescent love interest that turned Pretty before her. Their dynamic exemplifies Tally’s societally conditioned sense of inferiority, clearly represented by the

Dr.Kesiraju Ramprasad said that “Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It is having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and most importantly a beautiful soul”. However, truthful the Doctors quote may be, it is often not what is viewed as important in real life situations. In society, beauty

“In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly”(Scott Westerfeld). In the future, everyone is considered ugly and live in imperfect Uglyville, until they turn 16. The magical age where you get The Operation. The Operation that turns you pretty, lets you live in perfect Pretty Town, and is considered the most important thing in life. In the novel Uglies, written by Scott Westerfeld, he features the dystopian archetypes of a dehumanized state and conformity showing the result of everyone looking and acting the same way so the government can control them and maintain a position of high anarchy.

“Pretties” is the second book in the “Uglies” series written by Scott Westerfeld. The book starts back off when Tally, the main character, has just had the operation to turn pretty. She has a party to go to and must pick out her costume. She decided to go as a Smokie because she had to look “Bubbly” enough to get into the Crims. The Crims where a clique in New Pretty Town, they were the kids who pulled tricks and pulled stunts. After her and Shay, Shay is her best friend, pick out their costumes they go to the party. At the party Tally saw someone who she thought she recognized. The person she saw was Croy from the Smoke. He gave her instructions to follow. After her encounter she goes back to the party and the leader Zane, accepts her into

Tally must figure herself out before she undergoes surgery at the age of sixteen to become “pretty”: or what is so called pretty. Tally and Peris are the best of friends, but when Peris becomes pretty, Tally is left to figure out how to survive without anyone to talk to. A wait of three months until Tally finally would get the surgery to become pretty. Throughout this wait, Tally meets a girl named Shay while sneaking out to New Pretty Town, where

does not think of herself as pretty, but in fact she believes that she is ugly

Tally had grown up like a normal person in her community, everyone is told that they are ugly and that when they grow up, everything will be perfect because they will be pretty. Tally makes a

Tally Youngblood is the main character in the story Uglies, and her character changes various times throughout the story. In the novel, Tally faces numerous issues and decisions. Many of these issues and decisions affect how Tally changes later in the story. In Uglies, Westerfeld illustrates to readers how Tally’s character changes from wanting to be pretty to realizing her looks are not everything.

Schizophrenia is responsible for life-long mental illness that presents an abnormal reality to those diagnosed with it. It can cause hallucinations, delusion, decreased motivation and judgement, erratic behavior, substance abuse, among other symptoms. Schizophrenia and mental illness, in general, can be a tricky subject in terms of an accurate portrayal. However, even inaccurate portrayals can help readers understand its implications. The way that authors write schizophrenic characters and their relationships in their works can leave an enduring impact. Considering only the following story of a likely schizophrenic protagonist, readers are presented a sensible mentally ill character who may not have a happy ending but does leave a lasting impression in those readers who become familiar with him. In Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne touches on the reality of those inflicted with such mental illnesses as schizophrenia and does not shy away from showing the dark implications it may have on their life.

By Tally quickly turning down the idea of not being pretty, shows how strong-minded and determined she is to get the operation. Even if it means losing her new best friend and missing out on a life adventure, Tally is determined not to miss her beauty surgery. Why is she so set on being pretty? Because if she is not, her society will be there to critic her appearance. “. .

While Tally is in the Smoke , she finds out about magazines and what they really are. Also while Tally is in the Smoke, she meets David’s parents Maddy and Az, who were doctors that did the operation when you turn 16. Maddy and Az tell her all these secrets about the operation and about these things called lesions and how they are like cancer- you don’t remember anything before the operation. Toward the end of Section 2 Tally throws the heart pendant that Dr.Cable gave her in the fire, thinking the fire would destroy the pendant. It activates, and Tally does not realize that she activated the heart pendant and the Specials could now find out where the Smoke

In the song ‘At Seventeen’, Janis Ian sings “I learned the truth at seventeen, that love was meant for beauty queens”, this can be compared to Josie’s experiences in high school because it states the need to fit in but being rejected because of their looks.

Young Goodman Brown," written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is the story of a young Christian mans struggle between good versus evil, and the loss of his innocence. All of us harbor a propensity for evil regardless of the mask that we put on for society.

This passage comes from Lispector’s “Preciousness.” It is about the disturbing coming of age of a girl who is not ready to be a woman. Throughout the story, the girl struggles to find her identity, understand her sexuality, and find her place in the larger social community. Lispector uses the passage above to emphasis the lack of the girl’s preparedness for maturity and change. She writes, “it was always the same thing renewed: waking up.” Lispector is showing the audience that the girl had a scheduled routine. She then writes, “She was fifteen years old and not pretty.” Lispector is illustrating to the audience that she is at the prime age for maturing and developing. She then describes that inside this teen’s developing body is “something