Synopsis Of The Book 'Pretties' By Scott Westerfeld

Uglies illustrates many issues that young teenagers will go through in life. The reader has an insight of three main characters and their struggles to fit in to certain societies and others. They are Tally, Shay and David.

When Tally got on the hover-board to go and get her operation she could tell that something was wrong, but she did not know what it was: “The strange-looking man flew with an aggressive impatience”(Westerfeld 99). Then Tally was brought into Special Circumstances and brought into a room. Dr. Cable then walks into the room that Tally was in and told her that she would not be getting the pretty operation unless she helped them find the Smoke. When Tally decides to betray Shay to help Special Circumstances, so she can get the pretty operation is when Tally goes off on her journey to the

“Beauty” by Tony Hoagland was written in 1998. In this poem, Hoagland expresses his feelings on how women care too much about physical appearances. Throughout his poem he tells the story through the eyes of a brother of a girl who learns to love herself for who she is. Hoagland’s poem stresses the importance that beauty goes deeper than the surface. Throughout his poem, Tony Hoagland uses many literary devices to perfect his poem. These devices include the message, tone, imagery, figures of speech, and personification.

Would you like to live in a world where you are born ugly and forced to transform pretty by age 16 and you have no say? Well the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is about a girl named Tally who meets Shay, a teenager just like her, that decides not to turn pretty and escape to a city called “The Smoke.” This gets Tally in trouble as she is threatened by a doctor in Special Circumstances, named Dr. Cable, that she will stay ugly for life if she doesn't find and return her friend, along with other people that escape too. I enjoyed this book very much because I felt that it kept me interested while reading instead of boring me. Throughout the book the main characters showed a variety of different character traits. Also some scenes demonstrate when the character is applying values either positive or negative.

In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the author believes that betraying your friends after making a promise only leads to disaster. In the beginning of the book, the main character Tally and her best friend Shay live in a city where everyone is given an operation to turn “pretty” at the age of 16 . Shay and Tally have a strong relationship and hoverboarding is one of the main links between the two. But when Shay tells Tally that she is leaving because she doesn’t want to turn pretty, Tally refuses to leave with her because of her lifelong dream to turn pretty.

Tally Youngblood is an adventurous girl who wants to be pretty so she can live in New Pretty Town where her best friend Peris Lives. Tally meets a new friend named Shay while she was trying to run away from New Pretty Town. Tally is an adventurous, smart, and faithful friend making her a complex character.

In the novel, Beauty by Robin Mc Kinley, the family of a wealthy merchant looses their wealth when the shipment boats get lost at sea. There are three daughters named Hope, Grace, and Honour, whom is nicknamed Beauty, and a father. The family is forced to move to the country and start a life more modest than accustomed. After the family adapts to country life, one of the older sisters gets married to an iron worker who used to work at the shipyard owned by the father. They have babies. Life goes on in the country.

The first tough decision that Tally makes is to go to the Smoke and betray Shay. She is given the choice of either going there and giving away its location, or never becoming pretty. This would mean that she would practically never see her best friend again and that she would live a secluded life in Uglyville for the remainder of her life. After thinking about what she should do, Tally decides

In the novel Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, Tally is selfish, but she is later revealed as smart. Tally agrees to help Dr. Cable by betraying Shay for her to be pretty. Tally says, “Okay, I’ll do it. Turn it off” (Westerfeld 131). Tally naivety about being about being pretty is all she thinks about makes her betray her friend and expose the smoke city.

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

Gazing at beauty does inexplicable things to the human mind, it is uncontrollable and difficult to maintain stability. In the story A&P by John Updike, Sam and his co-workers are engrossed by the three girls in the grocery store. One could say, the opposite sex holds the power of desire.

In the play “Reasons to be Pretty” by Neil LaBute, the opening scene shows a couple fighting about what seems to be a petty thing. Greg, the main character, told a coworker that he believed that his girlfriend, Stephanie, “hasn’t got a face like that girl’s- maybe her face is just regular- but I wouldn’t trade her for a million bucks” (LaBute 10). Throughout the book Greg goes through normal drama with people he would not normally find drama with. It feels although Greg is going down a downhill slope. He loses people, and he gains allies in unlikely people. LaBute tells the tale about a lovers quarrel gone wrong, and leaves the readers wondering what will happen to all of the couples in the play. This play shows the trail of normal dramatic events for one man by the people closest to him determined from the given circumstances, Greg’s values, and the resolution.

Tally realizes now that she was oblivious about what exactly she was doing before. She sees that she would be ruining people’s lives, not just Shay’s runaway. This is when Tally starts wondering whether she should activate the pendant or not. “ If Tally activated the tracker, it wouldn’t just mean the end of Shay’s big adventure. It would be David’s home taken from him, his whole life stripped away.” (Westerfeld ). This is a line from Uglies that takes place inside of Tally’s mind while she is debating whether she should give up the Smoke or not. If she did, all the trust that David and Shay have in her would vanish, although she would be keeping her promise to

The second book in the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, is about a girl named Tally Youngblood, who is the main character throughout all the books. Tally is a sixteen-year-old who has just undergone the operation that changed her from an Ugly to a Pretty. Tally has become a member of the most popular group in New Pretty Town, the Crims. After attending a costume party, she discovers that she gave her consent to take an untested drug made by one of the leaders of New Smoke, a group that lives outside of the cities, in order to heal the lesions in her brain left by the operation. Tally and her friend Zane find the hidden

But her dreams are stopped short when she finds a girl named Shay who instantly clicks with Tally, or so they thought. Shay doesn't want to be pretty so leaves her home and travels to a distant settlement called the Smoke. Therefore leaving Tally suffer the consequences of Shays actions, and then for leading Tally to betrayal all because her dream of turning of Pretty was