The Meaning Of Tally

While escaping, Shay and Tally wound up riding a hover board together. Tally starts apologizing to Shay for betraying The Smoke, but Shay is okay with being pretty now. “Tally thought of the lesions on Shay’s brain, the tiny cancers or wounds or whatever they were, that she didn’t even know she had. They were in there somewhere, changing her friend’s thoughts, warping her feelings, gnawing at the roots of who she was” (379 Scott Westerfeld). Tally is thinking to herself about what the government did to her best friend and why Shay would now be okay with the operation when she was so against it in the beginning. This proves that the government is putting lesions in all of the new pretties brains that they are not aware about. These lesions control people’s thoughts and change their personality so that there is no trace of their former selves which makes them beings of the government. This results in the government being able to maintain a position of high

If you ask twenty people to define beauty you will receive, in all probability, twenty different definitions. Beauty, being as ambiguous as it is, leaves room for interpretation. Alice Walker, in “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”, attempts to demonstrate that perception is subjective, and she successfully does so. Albeit, our perceptions do change as we go through life, experiencing and learning. By taking the reader on a sequential journey throughout her life and establishing a sentimental and sympathetic tone, Walker is able to portray that accepting and loving yourself is greater than being considered “beautiful” by society.

Quotation: “The philosophical dimension of beauty does not depend on the limits of the physical world; true beauty far exceeds our earthly bounds.”

Tally and Shay become good friends but have a fight with one another because of their opposing views on having an operation. Although Shay decides to try and make up for the fight and goes to meet Tally. When Shay meets with Tally, both of their feelings are expressed through their actions, in the text on page 87 it says,”Come in, stupid!” Shay crawled into the window, laughing, as Tally gathered her into a hug, warm and joyful and solid. They stepped back, still holding each other’s hands”. Tally’s actions of laughing and gathering Shay into a hug show a positive motivation between the two characters. This section of the text can also help the reader develop an understanding of how strong the relationship seems to be, setting up a

Shay reveals to Tally she “does not want to be pretty”[pg 80]. This indirect characterization of Shay discloses her as having an open mind similar to clarise. However, she is unable to convince Tally to leave with her as Tally’s beliefs are extremely different than of Shay’s. Tally’s desire to become pretty elevates to the point where it blinds her from the fact she is losing her identity. Shay is unable to convince Tally as she is ignorant and too naive to realize it.

However, special circumstances find out that Shay ran away and left the directions behind, so the give Tally a choice. The choice is to find Shay and turn her in so Tally becomes pretty or Tally never turns pretty at all. Tally then goes off on this journey to find and bring back Shay to become “pretty”. But when Tally reaches the smoke she learns new secrets about the world she lives in and her perception of what is right and wrong changes. So, Tally’s ultimate choice is either to stay in Smoke or go back and become pretty.

When I read this piece of dialogue Shay said to Tally, it made me think of what back story Shay has to compel her away from being hypnotized by the definition of pretty, just as everybody else. From when she first met Tally to when she ran away the night before they turned sixteen, she showed knowledge from the past (this book took place in the future). She shared series of information about the Rusty Ruins, an abandoned city, and told Tally how past technology use worked. She also mentioned a teenage boy named David, who started a civilization called “The Smoke”. The Smoke was a secluded place where runaway uglies went to escape from the life changing operation. Shay gave hints about her past friends planning to run away with her but

Tally is really worried about shay. She thinks that shay is going to get hurt or even worst killed while she going to that secret place. But on the hand Tall thinks that she’s just going to try to make tally come with her to the secret place. The day of Tally’s Operation she’s not able to get it ……..why u will have to read the rest of the

“Ooh, child,” The woman started. “Beauty is not about what is on the outside but the inside. You can be the most beautiful girl in all the land but with an ugly personality, you are the most lonely; but if you have the most beautiful personality, not matter your looks, you will be the most loved.”

While Tally escapes New Pretty Town she happens to bump into Shay, another hideous ugly waiting to become a beautiful pretty. Shay is a bit more rebellious than Tally but the two become great friends. Eventually, Tally brings up the pretty surgery and how she is scheduled to get it done once she turns 16. Shay doesn’t think

As Jane is of lower class than Rochester, it is unthinkable that Rochester would ever fall in love with her. In that day and age it was impossible for a woman to persuade a man in love. As a woman you needed to wait for man to propose to you. If you did not want to marry him, you had very little to say about it. What Jane does later in the story, declining one proposal and blowing one wedding off, was not usual and accepted in that time.

In today’s society we put too much emphasis on external beauty. In the story “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” by Alice Walker, the author gives us overall message that that true beauty comes from within. Walker shows us this message through her life journey of self-acceptance and self-discovery. At the beginning, as a child, Walker thought of herself as highly beautiful, as she says; "Take me, Daddy," l say with assurance; "I'm the prettiest!"”, also “It was great fun being cute. But then, one day, it ended.”

“Beauty calls with a sirens voice, and our longing to abandon all and chase after it is almost overwhelming. But we find that beauty is like the rainbow’s ends: it beckons but eludes. It’s a shimmering soap bubble that disappears in our grasping hand. In the presence of beauty we are like a child which our nose pressed to the window of a toy store. We look and yearn, but we find a barrier that prevents the full experience of what is before us. As much as we long to immerse ourselves in the beauty we see, we can’t do it.” – In Search for Certainty by Josh McDowell and Thomas Williams

Moral: Beauty in a woman is a rare treasure that will always be admired. Graciousness, however, is priceless and of even greater value… Without it nothing is possible; with it, one can do anything.

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