Uglies Scott Westerfeld Chapter Summaries

Scott Westerfeld’s science fiction novel titled Uglies, is a book about teenagers who live in a world where everyone is expected to look the same after the age of sixteen. 2.Tally lives in Uglyville, and not being able to await the day she turns pretty, she sneaks into New Pretty Town and meets a girl named Shay who is also visiting her “pretty” friends. 3.Shay and Tally become extremely good friends, and they do everything together, including using apps to morph their faces and imagine what they’ll look like after their surgery. 4. As Tally is morphing her face, she realizes that Shay is very uncomfortable and wants to sneak out into the Rusty Ruins, a place without any civilization, and while they are there, Tally notices that Shay oddly

knows a lot about the uncivilized land. 5. Tally notices Shay’s odd behavior, and questions Shay, but she never thought that Shay would want to run away from civilization and live in “The Smoke;” A couple days after Tally hears the astonishing news, Shay has already ran away and all Tally has left of their friendship is a note with secret directions to Smoke.

6. The day of the surgery that is supposed to make her pretty, Special Circumstances brings Tally into their secret headquarters and tells her that she cannot turn pretty until she helps them find Shay, so she sets out as a spy to the uncivilized land of Smoke, and once she arrives, she learns that she really enjoys it there, and falls in love with David, a teenaged guy who was born in The Smoke after his parents ran away several years ago. 7. Since Special Circumstances gave her a heart necklace that would trigger an attack on The Smoke, she decides to throw it into a fire after her and David have their first kiss and she finds out that during the turning surgery, the doctors mess with your brain in order to control your thoughts, little did Tally know that the necklace activates when under pressure, and because of that, she wakes up the next day to find all of Smoke being raided by everyone from Special

Circumstances. 8. Luckily, she and David escape all of the attacks, and save all of their friends from Special Circumstances a couple of days later, and they make the tough decision to run away again even though Shay has already turned pretty and has a different mindset. 9. Other citizens of The Smoke try to find a way to change Shay’s mindset back, but without her cooperation, there is nothing they can do to help her unless someone is willing to try the medication, therefore, the book ends with Tally turning herself in to become pretty, and the story will continue in the next three books.
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