The Uglies

            The book The Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, is a science fiction book written in 2005. This novel takes place in Uglyville and later on in Smoke, Rusty Ruins and finally Pretty Town. In this book it talks about how the main character, Tally Youngblood, goes through changes when she becomes the age of sixteen. Where she lives in the world of plastic surgery, forcing everyone on their sixteenth birthday to get plastic surgery. The reason behind this is because the government’s standard of prettiness is by getting surgery after surgery. Also doing this surgical procurers can help prevent wars, because after getting the operations done your brain would be taught to think like the “pretties”, as they call them after getting the pretty surgery.

            When it was Tally’s sixteenth birthday, also known as the day when she becomes pretty, she wasn't able to become one, because of one of her friends, Shay, which ran away from becoming a pretty. Shay believed that being ugly was pretty, she didn’t believe in the surgeries that the government provides. So she runs off to Smoke to join the rebels, leaving Tally a note. Giving Tally clues to where she is so she can join her if she changes her mind. Dr. Cable the surgeon/ the head master wants to hunt down the rebels and turn them to pretties and make the world an equal place, so he makes a deal with Tally. If she brings back Shay with her to Uglyville, they would both become pretty, but if she fails to do so, she will be an ugly for the rest of her life.