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Maddy and Az were cosmetic surgeons for the Pretty Committee. That's the group that decides for all the cities what sort of surgery should be acceptable for the pretties. They were doing research on the pretty surgery and found that people had tiny lesions all over their brains. It turns out that lots of pretties are brain damaged and brain damaged in the exact same way. In fact, it seems like the lesions are done to the pretties on purpose.

The big secret of pretty town and the surgery is that when they do the operation, they modify not only the look but also their thinking. Maybe that's why there's no war and everything is nice in the city almost everyone is brain damaged to be happy and slow thinking. This make it easier to control the city. The operation changes the way people look and the way they think.

The only pretties who don't have lesions have jobs that require quick thinking for example firefighters, wardens, doctors, Special Circumstances, etc. Well, that explains why the rangers that Tally met were different than most of the pretties she met in the city.

In the end, it’s not really a utopian society that we are looking at but a dystopian society. They are just trying to make people think that it’s the best choice to do just to have the control on them.

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In my opinion, I believe that one of the most important theme of uglies is becoming your own person, not an image of what someone else wants you to be. I think that this concept applies to the novel because the civilization that Tally and other individuals lived in, were constantly trying to erase differences, and in doing so, the population was becoming a uniform society. The charactes involved in the conflicts fought fiercely to avoid the destruction of their originality. In doing so, I believe that the author was attempting to portray this message.

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A novel i can compare to Uglies By Scott Westerfield is The Help By Kathryn Stockell. I can relate these two books because similarly to Uglies, chracters in The Help are segregated and judged as a result of how they look. The characters are forced into certain lifestyle just because they do not appear as a society want them to. I can connect to this novel because just as Tally is very reluctant to admit she as done wrong when it comes to Special circumstances, I am hesitant to confess mistakes, or actions. Also, just as many Uglies in the novel, I have the tendency to criticize my physical appearance harshly , basing it upon perfected images in society. I seem to forget that looks are not all that consits of a person, their personalities, talents and abilities are much more important.

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The main conflict type throughout the novel is human vs human, as a result of the different perspective of special circumstances, and the Smokes. The two opposing groups struggle to enforce, or continue their idea on how life is to be lived. Tally becomes ensnared in this conflict and joins the Smokies as they strive to oppose Special circumstances in their multiple attemps to end the way of living in the Smoke.

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the setting of uglies exists in four areas, The Smoke, The Rusties Ruins, New Pretty Town and Ugly Ville. - A majority of the plot is centered at the smoke, a small village hidden far away from civilization. It is tucked behind a wall of mountains and a blanket of sea. This particular area is where the smokies decided to build a small refuge from society.
- The Rusty Ruins are the remains of our once great cities, the remnants of our society. It is the graveyard of a municipality that once slood until a catastrophic apocalypse decimated our populations, leaving the Pretties world to rise from the ashes, and our cities to rot.
- New Pretty Town is the location where newly created Pretties go to live. It is a bright and colorful place, crowed with extravagant buildings, and never ending parties, it is a happy and care free place where you only concer is to have a good time.
- Ugly Ville is where young uglies spend their childhoods. Large, squat buildings rise up out of the Earth, this area isn't a home to a very exciting atmosphere.

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We decided to choose this specific background because we wanted to illustrate the most important choice that tally will have to make in her life and this is the choice of turning pretty or stay ugly. This is not a simple choice this is why we chose someone who is standing in front of two paths like tally is standing in front of her two options

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Tally begins the adventure to spy shay and david to betray the promise and say it to Dr.cable and if she sucess she will become pretty. She will reach The Smoke with a hoverboard that Dr. C able gave to her. The hoverboard is faster and more technological than the others that she have stepped on. Nevertheless, nobody will know about the trip not even peris or the parents
In her road to The Smoke, Tally encounters some problems like when she has to eat her SpagBols who were very good at the beginning but that became too much repetitive for her and also when she slept in the nature even when it was cold and dirty. Also when she is at the end of her trip she is sleeping in the nature and then she begins to feel fire and to listen to sounds, when she wakes up she sees that there is a lot of fire in there than a helicopter with some people called the Rangers save her.
When Tally arrives to the Smoke, she meets Shay and all her friends (David, Croy, Ryde and Astrix). Shay makes discover all the place to Tally and also the Rusties that are a old civilisation.

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-Shay: She's happy that Tally was able to arrive in the smoke safely, but starts to feel jealous once she realises the guy she likes, David, is interested in Tally

-David: He starts to develop feelings for Tally once he sees how good of a person she is, as well as how hardworking and serious she can be.

-Tally: She wants to keep her promise to Peris, but feels so guilty about trying to ruin the life of everyone in the smoke, that she decides to not call Dr.Cable with the tracker. She feels like she will destroy everything around her, and little by little, she starts to fall for David, even though he is an ugly, which will lead to the end of her friendship with Shay.

-Dr.Cable: He is a crude man who doesn't care about the well being of anyone, unless he gets what he wants. He even left Tally with nothing but dehydrated SpagBol for a week.

-Croy: He is very suspicious of Tally. He thinks it's weird how she had enough food in her bag to last the entire trip (and still extra), and he can't forget the fact that he found one of Dr.Cable's trackers on Tally's hoverboard.

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The main theme of the book that reflect well the strory is trust. It is something very important especially in this part of the book. Tally made a promise to both Shay and Peris and both trust her, but we know that she will have to betray one or the other. She had decided to honor her promise to Peris, but in the end wanted to keep her promise to Shay. She not only had trouble earning the trust of Croy, but lost Shay's after all the events involving David.