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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld


            What is your idea of a perfect world? According to Scott Westerfeld, a perfect world means being separated by a world full of beautiful people, and being separated by a surgery, where ugly people are not treated equally. Scott Westerfeld in Uglies, sets up a future where cosmetic surgery is compulsory when you turn 16, making everyone pretty. Of course, there are some people who want to keep their own face but they are not allowed to keep their ugly faces. Westerfield was born in Texas May 5th, 1963. He now divides his time between Sydney and New York a lot of the time. Westerfeld graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in Philosophy in 1985. Uglies was named as Best Book for Young Adults in 2006 by the American Library Association. Uglies have 3 million books in print and is a fiction book. It publish and copyrighted in 2005.1.
             The primary setting is in Pretty Town. Tally almost gets caught there and then gets captured and brought there and at the end of the book she goes back there to get turn pretty to be able to see if the cure maddy has for brain damage works. Pretty town is not imaginary it is real and it seems like a fun place you party all the time and you are pretty. It kind of reminds me of Heaven because we will be beautiful in Heaven and we will be worshiping God. Uglies takes place in a future world where everyone gets radical plastic surgery when they turn 16 in order to make them pretty.2.
             Uglies has a narrator with an original take on teen life. The Uglies is written in third person limited omniscient. It's an effective choice because Tally is an extremely important person in the story. The theme of uglies is that beauty does not fix everything. That a seemingly perfect world is never perfect. That you should be true to yourself and not blindly follow everyone and what they think. The climax of the story is when Tally after she gets captured and escapes. She finds David and they go to special circumstances and help get the others that were captured out and Maddy tells tally she has a cure for the brain damage but she needs to test it on someone so Tally turns herself in to get turned pretty to be the experiment of Maddy's cure.


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