Uglies
Scott Westerfeld is an American author
of science fiction who was born in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. In 2005, he
published Uglies, a best-seller which is the first tome of an
eponymous trilogy whose second tome is called Pretties
and whose third tome is called Specials. Uglies
is about Tally Younglood, a fifteen-year-old girl, who lives in a
future dystopian world. Indeed, in this society people are considered
as ''Ugly'' until they have a cosmetic surgery to become ''Pretty'' on
their sixteenth birthday. Yet, this cosmetic surgery turns out to be a manipulation organised by society in order to control the
population. Moreover, this surgery changes your personnality and your
way of thinking. At first, Tally refuses to believe it in so far as
she has always wanted to be '' Pretty '' and is willing to have the
cosmetic surgery. But later, one of her friends called Shay decides to flee a
few days before her sixteenth birthday so as not to have the cosmetic surgery.
Unlike what Tally thinks, a lot of people decide not to have the
surgery and flee as soon as they turn sixteen, although it is
forbidden because the surgery is obligatory, to a god forsaken spot
called The Smoke. This town is a few days away from Tally's town and its
inhabitants are all '' Uglies '' who have refused to have the cosmetic surgery
and therefore have decided to stay '' Ugly ''. From now on, Tally
is going to choose if it is whether better to stay and have the cosmetic surgery or better to refuse to become '' Pretty '' and join the '' Uglies '' in The Smoke.
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