Uglies, by Scott Westerfield, is one of those books that makes you want to read cuddled in a blanket on a snowy day, or getting a tan on the beach. It's the kind of book that makes you want to sit down, and not get back up until you finish it.
Tally is a 15 year old girl who lives in a world where when you turn 16, you go under an intense operation to become perfect. Your bones get stretched or shrunk, you have diffrent hair, you lose or gain weight- everything about you becomes ideal. One day Tally meets a girl named Shay, and Shay isn't so sure she wants to become pretty. She likes herself just the way she is, and theres a place where Tally can go to never become pretty. When Shay runs away to this place, Tally is forced to either turn in Shay or never become a pretty. Tally chooses to follow Shay, and when she arrives to this new land she learns some things about becoming pretty that changes her viewpoint on her world, and her friends.
The theme of this book is, "Change is good, because it can lead people to places they would of never expected to travel."
This theme is supported by Uglies because Tally takes a chance by traveling to a new place. Her entire life she has been hidden inside her city, and has never left. When she finally leaves, she is shown what the world actually looks like, and not of how it is depicted by others.
This sounds like an interesting book is another theme possibly beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Maybe the author is telling us to be happy with ourselves
ReplyDeleteNo, because the author is discussing how individuality is important in our society.
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