User:Kenyanqueen4/Student Draft of Uglies


 * Tally Youngblood is an adolescent girl who happens to be a fifteen year old Ugly at the beginning of the novel, is adventurous and witty and knows many tricks to play on the new uglies. Tally grew up with her best friend Peris who has recently been turned to a Pretty. Tally is anxious to be pretty as many other Uglies her age are and is confused by her new friend Shay that she meant on one of her expeditions who does not want to become Pretty.


 * Peris is Tally’s male best friend from the time  that they were littlies and they played together as Uglies, Peris birthday is a couple months before Shay’s so got the operation to make him Pretty sooner. Peris is changed by turning Pretty and wants Tally to stay out of trouble so nothing will halt her turning Pretty so they can be together.


 * Shay is Tally’s new found friend that she met on one of her crazy expeditions to go see Peris in Prettyville. Shay is adventurous as well and sort of rebellious. Tally is surprised by Shay because she is the first person Tally has ever met who doesn’t seem to want to become Pretty. Shay speaks of a different world where people are ugly forever.


 * David is the person who lives at the Smoke who Shay is always speaking of. David is someone who has not had the operation to make him Pretty by choice. He is the like one of the main leaders of the Smokies, a boy a couple years older than sixteen.


 * Dr. Cable is the doctor at Special Circumstances who tells Tally that she has to go to the Smoke if she wants to receive her operation. Dr. Cable is a pretty but not a normal Pretty her features are intimidating.


 * The Boss is the old ugly who runs the library at the Smoke. The Boss is the epitome of what being ugly is about he is old, wrinkled, discolored and shuffling through Shay’s eyes. He is only the age of forty.


 * Sol is Tally’s father a middle pretty who does not know much about Special Circumstances.


 * Croy is another one of the Smokies who ran away with Shay. He is reakky supportive of rebelling against the operation


 * Maddy and Ax David's parents who founded the Smoke who used to be Pretty doctors.

Plot Summary: Uglies is about a girl who is waiting to turn 16 to receive the operation to make herself Pretty. She lives in a society in which people are made to conform. The stages of life are littlies in which young kids like in Crumbly-ville with their Middle Pretty parents. When they turn 11 they hit adolescence and naturally become ugly by awkwardness associated with these word. The Uglies live in dorms with other peer Uglies who become their friends and they take pleasure in playing tricks associated with their mischievous manner, they are to receive the operation to make them pretty when they turn 16. Uglies usually are anticipating their 16Th birthday so that they will become pretty making all of their abnormalities perfect. Everyone in Pretty-ville is equally Pretty. When Tally makes a trip into Pretty-ville trying to visit her friend Peris who was recently turned Pretty and she sneaks into one of the notorious Pretty parties. She runs into her friend Peris who seems zoned out and never really got angry at her for embarrassing him that way. When she leaves she runs into another Ugly girl Shay who is in a similar predicament trying to escape from UglyVillle to sneak into Prettyville to play one of her tricks. Her and Shay become really good friends ans Shay expresses a different opinion about receiving the operation she says she has a choice about being changed and that is crazy. Shay decides to run away a couple days before the operation to the Smoke. So when Tally goes to receive her operation she ends up at Special Circumstances a place where most people do not even believe exist. It consists of Super Human pretties. Tally meets doctor Cable who tells her that she cannot have the operation until she leads Special Cicrumstances to Tally. So Tally must travel to the Smoke alone having a detection signal that she willl set off when she reaches there so that the Smoke will know when she has arrived. Tally gets to the Smoke and lives there for a week or two seeing all the things from our human times such as magazines where she thinks everyone is Ugly. Tally falls in love with the leader of the Smoke David who parents used to be Pretty but reversed the operation. Tally learns about the brain lesions that David's parents Maddy and Ax discovered that you receive when you get the pretty operation that make you stop having an opinion. Tally does not want to receive the operation anymore after this realization but when she comes back to the camp she accidentally sets off the trigger and Special Circumstances arrive the next day. Tally runs away with David while the whole camp has been burned down and cleared out. Tally and David set out to rescue all the Smokies from the Special Circumstances building itself. When they get their they find that Shay has been turned Pretty and Tally feels like it is all her fault. Ax has been killed by Doctore Cable. Maddy thinks she has found a cure for the bain lesions but she needs a guinea pig to try it on. Shay does not want to take it but Tally believes if she will receive the operation she will take the pills.

This book has received many reviews from many creditable sources. Kirkus Reviews rates Uglies 4 out of 5 stars. The authors of the Baroque Body makes a summarization of equality based on the story. The Kirkus Review says the beginning and end pack hefty punches.
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