Specials By Scott Westerfeld Essay

Bernadette Basinger

Miss. Griffith

English 9-4

3 March 2016

The Specials

Many people, today, judge others and separate themselves from each other. In the book, Specials by Scott Westerfeld, there is a society made of four different groups of people called pretties, uglies, specials and extras. Pretties, uglies, specials and extras are people who are special surgeries so they can change the way they look, their agility and other features of their body. Through the book the specials are trying to end the use of a drug that is given to the pretties to lessen their intelligence.

Tally is a Cutter in their society. Cutters are a branch of Special Circumstances. The Cutters are led by Tally's friend, Shay. They are sent to an uglies party to

look for outsiders that crash the party to cause trouble. Tally and the Cutters have to disguise themselves as uglies, which made Tally feel homesick when she saw the uglies awkwardly interacting.
Tally had been remade.

Her bones were replaced aircraft ceramic, which made them lighter and indestructible and now her muscles repair themselves. Also, her hearing is improved and all of her senses are improved at a great amount.

Smokies are sneaking in pills with nanos, which destroys the pretties brain cells and keeps them stupid and mellow. Tally tries to arrest the Smoky, who escape by flying into the air by using a bungee jacket. The criminal is saved by Smokies on hoverboards, including their leader David.

Tally and the other Cutters get on their hoverboards and race to arrest the Smokies. Even with the Cutters' skills, they manage to get away. The Smokies had the advantage because the stole hover boards from the specials. Tally gets injured and separated from the rest of the group.

When Tally reunites with Shay the Cutters, she learns the pills were to going delivered to the Crims. The Crims are a group of trouble makers. The Crim that it was supposed to be delivered is Zane.

Tally and Shay go to see Zane, who is a pretty. He is still damaged from the nano pills. Yet, he's helping the Crims give out thousands of pills, which resulted in a new breed of smart pretties. Tally asked Zane to turn on his Smokey allies, and he agrees to do it for

her.
While Tally still is in love with boyfriend, she is setback by his disabilities. If she and Shay can aid him escape, they'll be in trouble. Later, Zane may possibly become a Special after he helps stop the Smokies.
After they take down the Smokies, and Tally recovers from an injury they return back to their homes and go back to be living in their separate cliques. This book show people who judge others should first look at how they help other people.