Tally

astonishing catastrophe that morphed the world into its current state, Tally Youngblood is your average fifteen year old. Like any teenage girl living in Uglyville, all she has ever desired was the all-consuming surgery which provides a gateway to a life of supposed eternal bliss. So, undoubtedly it comes as a surprise when her new best friend, Shay introduces a foreign concept to her: perhaps the surgery isn’t the sole purpose of life. Tally is a multidimensional, witty, an ‘afraid yet brave’ kind of protagonist

Do you feel like living in a world where nobody is perfect? In Tally Youngblood’s world, everyone is ugly. When they turn 16, the uglies are turned into a pretty by an operation. Tally is a teenager who wants to be a pretty; however, there are many complications with Tally’s operation. Due to this, Tally has to face many choices which change her old perspectives. In Uglies, Tally’s character changes when she meets Dr. Cable, after David tells her about his secret, and when she is leaving the Smoke

figures in the text. Tally and Shay are two best friends that have a streaky relationship because of their opposing opinions on the world and how they should live their lives. The relationship between the two slowly becomes worse and worse towards the end of the book. Both Tally and Shay’s emotions are expressed in the Uglies with revealing actions. Towards the beginning of the book, Tally goes and meets a friend of hers named Peris, He had just recently turned pretty and Tally and hasn’t seen him

In the beginning of the book Uglies, the main character Tally a almost a sixteen year old girl is a ugly waiting for her next birthday so she can get the operation and turn pretty. Tally had a wide nose, thin lips, too-high of a forehead and a frizzy tangled hair. Tally couldn't wait to see her friend Peris who just became an pretty because they were best friends. She sneaked out to Pretty Town where the Pretties lived to go find Peris. “She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission

Dynamic Character: Tally Youngblood The Uglies is a dystopian novel about a young girl living in a futuristic society with a very controlling government. Scott Westerfeld’s character, Tally Youngblood, is the protagonist of his novel. Tally changes and progresses as her story is told, making her a very dynamic character. As you read you discover that she an adolescent who is selfish and will do anything to become a “Pretty”, but as her story goes on her traits change from a selfish, immature, and

Tally is a 15 years old girl and just wants a normal life just like every girl that 15 years old she wants to turn 16 to get her driver license and to be turned pretty by getting plastic surgery. Shay likes to jumps before she looks and sometimes she doesn’t look at all. Shay is very different from Tally but in most ways they are both similar at being alone. Shay like to rebel against the whole system David is mostly the least rebellious rebel because he was born into the smoke. Born from two runaway

Tally meets a new friend, Shay, and together they make a dangerous trip to the Rusty Ruins. There they ride an old rusty roller coaster with parts of the tracks missing. In the novel, Tally goes on a lot of adventures. She does a lot of ‘thinking outside the box’ and she is very curious. Tally was a smart character. She was able to trick her room as if she was asleep. In the text it says, “…shoved an old portable heater, one that produced about as much warmth as a sleeping…” This was smart

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

Tally Youngblood can’t wait till she turns sixteen in three months. When she does, she will receive a life changing surgery transforming her into a pretty. Tally would then reunite with her best friend, Peris, in New Pretty Town. In the meantime, she decides to meet Peris earlier than planned. When Tally finally finds Peris in a party tower, it seems as though Peris’s personality had vanished. He appeared annoyed, wishing she had visited when she was a pretty. As Tally was leaving to Uglyville, she

In the book Uglies the author, Scott Westerfeld writes about the life of Tally Youngblood and her obstacles along the way. After Tally’s best friend Peris becomes pretty and makes her promise she will become pretty too, Tally meets Shay. When Shay runs away to avoid becoming pretty, Tally is forced to betray Shay or risk not becoming what she has always wanted to be. All of Tally’s promises cause a lot of conflicts and cause everyone a lot of problems. Tally’s two main promises caused significant