How Does Tally Change In Uglies By Westerfeld

In the beginning of the novel, we learn about Johnny Cade - a quiet boy who is haunted by his past. A short time ago, Johnny was beaten senseless by a bunch

Both were sneaking in the town and stayed friends since. Nevertheless there friendship has suffered major tests throughout the book however a bigger question may be that why did shay stick with tally even though she was an ugly in new pretty town, trying to meet an old friend and was about to get caught by the police? The answer is that Shay didn’t care about how she looked what situation she was in but she cared about her and her personality. Also, Shay’s action when meeting new uglies show that she isn’t judgemental however she is open to the littlies and the mid year

In Uglies by Westerfeld, the main character, Tally goes through changes through out the book, like Tally’s decision on becoming a pretty and her choice of going to the Smoke. Tally Youngblood is the protagonist in the novel Uglies. Throughout the story, Tally Youngblood experiences a lot of changes. As Tally’s character experience these changes, her perspective on turning pretty had changed while meeting Shay helped Tally become more rebellious.

In the book, The Outsiders a character, Johnny Cade starts off by his character traits being afraid, but throughout the novel, Johnny turns into an upstander person who had the courage to conquer a person from the Socs gang because they were threatening him with drowning his good friend, Ponyboy. Johnny’s friendship with Ponyboy was close but in the end, Johnny didn’t necessarily change that much despite his actions but, Ponyboy’s understandings of him improved in a good way.

Imagine living in a world where at the age of sixteen kids turn pretty and their life becomes perfect. Everything in life becomes easy and carefree, sleep all day and party all night. That was the life Tally was suppose to live. The whole concept of the operation was that once someone turns sixteen life becomes perfect. Tally’s trip to the Smoke was suppose to be easy once she arrived at her destination. In the end, it turned into something Tally could have never imagined. Tally’s personality had changed without the operation. In Scott Westerfeld’s book Uglies, Tally learns even the simple things in life can end up being complex.

The story is based on her life, how she meets new friends, and about her journey to “The Smoke.” In the book she shows three main traits. She's very caring, she demonstrates this when she tells Shay to be careful on her trip to “The Smoke.” Tally also helps David look for his parents. Another value she shows is a bad example, she exhibits a non-trustworthy person because she tells Dr. Cable all about “The Smoke.” She is also not fair due to her giving up “The Smoke,” that wasn't fair because other people lived there and they deserved to be happy, even though she did it by accident. Those are the main traits that she

“I want her to be safe.” Nick whispered. It wasn’t a lie, but Nick just had a horrible way of going at it. “She’s my friend.”

Shay is trying to convince Tally to go outside of the city limits with her to show her the Rusty Ruins. Tally is skeptical about it because the government equipment could detect them. Shay promises that it’s safe and says to Tally, “‘I just want to show you something that’s my idea of fun, Tally. Before we go all pretty and only get to have everybody else’s idea of fun’”(50 Scott Westerfeld). This can prove that the government is controlling everyone to keep them from being non-threatening. This also shows that once everyone has the operation they conform to the same idea of fun. Shay wants to be individual but Tally is set on conforming to be

Dr. Cable gives Tally supplies to get to the Rusties and a heart-shaped locket that she is to activate when she finds Shay. Once Tally activates it, Special Circumstances will be able to find the location of the Rusties and arrest any outlaws living there. Tally travels for several days and nights and finally gets to the Rusties. Shay is happy to see her, and immediately introduces her to all of her new friends. These friends include David, a sixteen year old that ran away from the surgery because he wanted to stay pure. When Tally meets him, she thinks to herself, “He was an ugly, but he had a nice smile. And his face held a kind of confidence Tally had never seen in an ugly before” (Loc 2180). David represents pureness and reality. In our world, we classify someone as beautiful if they have exquisite features that are rare. In Tally’s world, everyone was given these rare features,

She decided to go anyways and she crash landed in a river. She winds up breaking her hover board and has to walk the rest of the way across the entire city to get to the New Smokies. Then she realizes that she had landed in a Special circumstances experiment. After a week she escaped by using a hover- car and flies to the New Smoke. When she arrives David (her old boyfriend as a Smokie) is there with his hover board and they go to where everyone is staying in the New Smoke. But Tally finds out that Zane is still extremely sick. In the meantime, while they wait Tally decides to go to the river and take a bath. In the midst of it David goes to the river and tells her that someone had a tracker on them and the Specials should be there soon. He tells her everyone must leave, but first they have to find the bug. They check everyone but they find out that when Zane was in the hospital they implanted a tracker and they used it to find the New Smoke. They can’t take it out of Zane so everyone escapes except for Zane and Tally stays with him. A few minutes after the escape Special circumstances arrives and takes them both. When Tally awakens she realizes that Dr. Cable, a Special herself, has made Tally into a Special

Shay, her new best friend, decides to run away to a place where being ugly doesn't really matter to anyone. “ it’s not like here, Tally. They don't separate everyone , uglies from pretties, new and middle and late. And you can leave whenever you want, go anywhere you want.” The relationship that Tally had with Shay was strong, but took the place of the surgery and Tally was willing to turn shay in.

But Tom was not about to leave until his friend divulged the secret of his whereabouts over the last few weeks, and squaring his shoulders, he slowly shook his head. “Not until you tell me where you’ve been.”

Due to the evidence I found I believe that the present theme in the Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is that betraying your friends after making a promise only leads to disaster. Tally betrays her friend Shay during this story leading to strong bad feelings for both of them. Guilt and Regret for Tally, Hatred for Shay. If Tally wouldn’t have betrayed her friend, these feelings wouldn’t be present in the two

When writing the book Uglies, the author, Scott Westerfeld, used a sufficient amount of details to emphasize the differences in social classes and how each class is distinctly separated. By labeling the citizens in the colonies, Westerfeld was able to show how each class was viewed. The novel follows a character named Tally, who is a teenager living in a time set ahead of our own. In this community there are different stages a person goes through while growing up. All citizens first start out as "littlies," or kids younger than twelve. Once over twelve the kids move to their own town, called Uglyville, away from their parents and are

Shay disappeared to the “smoke:” that is where other uglies run to if they do not want the operation, but the government does not approve of this choice. Even in the smoke, only a few know the truth about the operation. What will they do to save the people from the operation? In the smoke, they embrace