Tally

“I’m Tally Youngblood, make me pretty” (Westerfeld 406). Tally, the main character, says this sentence at the end of the first book in the Uglies series, written by Scott Westerfeld. The Uglies is set in a futuristic time, where everyone is considered “ugly” until they have an operation to make them “pretty” at the age of sixteen. In many ways, the book connects to modern time. Scott Westerfeld is trying to give a message about vanity, being yourself, and having flaws, because of the connections

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. Tally’s character changes whenever Peris comes to Uglyville to see her. That is when she decides

Tally is an exceptional character from the book Uglies who captivates everyone's attention with her bold personality. Dr. Cable manipulated her by making her go to Smoke all alone, which was an action of a risk taker. In addition, she accomplished many actions that took true courage while she was running away from Special Circumstances during the Smoke invasion. Along with these positive qualities, Tally is a determined girl who will get what she wants when she puts her mind to it. From all the characters

People make sacrifices either for themselves or for others. Scott Westfield’s book, Uglies, has Tally decide her own fate while shaping others. Tally meets shay and they go on an adventure to the rusty ruins where tally learns about the mysterious David. When Shay runs away to the smoke, Doctor Cable refuses to give Tally an operation to turn her pretty for life and forces her to rescue Shay from Smoke or she will not turn pretty. After her long journey to smoke she starts to do hard work and earn

good friend to Tally. Until Shay wanted to leave and never come back to become pretty. Shay wants Tally come with her but she refuse. Leaving was not an option for her because she wants to become pretty like her friends. Before Shay left for her adventurous trip she gave tally a note telling her where she was going to be. She did not tell Tally who she was going to be with at all. Shay gives tally a coded message that told Tally were she was going to be with full detail. But Tally tells Shay that

In Specials, the main character Tally wants she old boyfriend, Zane, to join the Cutters, her special group of Specials. The cutters are lead by Tally’s friend, Shay. Zane is a Pretty, but he is crippled. Due to the damage on his brain caused by the “cure” for the brain lesion put in every Pretty’s brain during the operation. Because Zane took only one of the pills and Tally took the other, the pill caused Zane’s brain to slowly be eaten away. The pill Tally took was supposed to stop it once it finished

social-encountered situation, and give a new meaning to beauty in itself. In this short chapter, Tally and Shay are making morphs, an early copy of their ‘pretty’ selves before they receive their operation. Though Tally has made her dream morph, and is mentally counting down the days until their operations, Shay is not. In fact, when they were making Shay’s morph, and she suggests that they go hoverboarding instead, Tally insists they have to “get this right”.

throughout the story which develops the theme. In the beginning of the novel Tally acted rebelliously due to the fact she snuck out of her house and past her curfew. She went past the iron skeleton of the bridge and across to New Pretty town to see her friend Peris. Unknowingly, she ends up crashing a party since she was an ugly. But at the end of the novel, she is dedicated since Tally decides to rescue the smokies with David. “Tally had memorized the map, but if she made one wrong turn she was toast. Without

Recently, a hot topic has been the effects of media on body image. There has been speculation that media can lower an individual's satisfaction with their body. Scott Westerfeld portrays this same idea in his book Uglies. All Tally Youngblood wants to do is be a Pretty like her best friend Peris (Westerfeld, 2005). In Tally's world this is normal; at sixteen everyone has a surgery to them into beautiful human beings (Westerfeld, 2005). Westerfeld (2005) writes that the only stipulation of the surgery

explores a seemingly perfect future, where people have to go through an extreme cosmetic surgery that turns them into “pretties”, surgically enhanced human beings. Tally Youngblood decided to evade surgery after learning about it’s true, mind-controlling nature. In the exposition, both characters are faced with a choice: to