Tally

beautiful, when you lose a best friend, nothing is. Tally Youngblood was still an ugly. Three months and two days until she finally turns sixteen years old, goes off for the surgery, and becomes a pretty like her friend Peris. Since Tally isn’t a very patient girl, she decides to sneak out and go to the New Pretty Town and see Peris just for a little while. Tally is a girl that loves pulling tricks and pranks. Even at the very beginning of the book, Tally is braking in to the New Pretty Town, and as we

Just like every single 15 year old girl, Tally Youngblood just wants a normal teenage life. She is desperately waiting to turn 16 so she can finally get her driver’s license and her pretty surgery. Once she gets her surgery, she can finally live in New Pretty Town with her best friend Peris who she has known since she was a child. Tally is eager to see Peris so she daringly travels to New Pretty Town just to see him. While Tally escapes New Pretty Town she happens to bump into Shay, another

Tally discovers one of these towns and makes an observation: “Without the lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left rolling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas.” (Specials 229). Despite the government’s attempts to keep their citizens controlled, the people’s conflicting nature prevails. Although the special surgery’s goal is to make people perfect, Tally still walks away from it with some major character flaws, one

turn their back on them? Tally Youngblood managed to hurt Shay, Corey, and Paris’s feelings in the book, Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld. Tally struggles to decide what to do when faced with difficult decisions and this causes her to have a weaker relationship with her friends. Being betrayed is what many characters experience throughout Uglies. This theme is relevant throughout the book, because everyone that runs into Tally ends up being betrayed by her in some way. Tally just wants to become a pretty

Cable tells Tally, “’Then I’ll make you a promise too, Tally Youngblood. Until you help us, to the very best of your ability, you will never be pretty” (Loc 1309). After hearing this, Tally reluctantly agrees to help Dr. Cable find Shay. This moment is important because it symbolizes weakness and selfishness in human nature. Sometimes, we are willing to go against someone we love if it benefits ourselves. Tally wants to be perfect so badly that she is willing

Tally’s best friend, catches her awareness after he becomes a pretty. The way Tally describes Peris, from his sparkling green eyes to his flawless skin makes it crystal clear that Peris has her heart. When I got the clue Tally had a crush on him, I became furious. All their life, from childhood to teenage years, Tally and Peris were close friends. Therefore, they always had a chance to step up their relationship, but even then Tally showed no interest. Then, boom! Once Peris goes through a procedure that

The theme developed in Uglies is that the idea of “pretty” or “equilibrium” shouldn’t be taken to far. On place where this theme is apparent on page 103 when Tally is talking to special circumstances about Shay’s disappearance before her operation. This relates to the theme because Dr. Cable essentially says that everything must exist equally and if there is any threat to that equality, the people behind it must be killed. Another way this theme is developed in the beginning is Tally’s own self-image

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

Speaking Up - A Teen’s Greatest Challenge Teenage years are a transition stage from a youngster to an adult. During this period, teenagers need to face many challenges, and one of the major challenges is to speak up. Teenagers find it difficult because they are still going through psychological development and are not mature enough to make right choices. One of the major challenges teens find difficult is speaking up. Speaking up is essential when people's thoughts and feelings should be communicated

following: Tally was not going to be pretty until she turned her friends in and the resolution is that Tally becomes pretty after the Smoke gets destroyed. As Westerfeld states, “‘Then I’ll make you promise too, Tally Youngblood. Until you do help us, to the very best of your ability, you will never be pretty.’ Dr. Cable turned away. ‘You can die ugly, for all I care.’” (Westerfeld 106). This proves the main conflict because it shows that the Special Circumstances doctor is not letting Tally become