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Analysis Of Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

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Someone’s utopia is always someone's dystopia. In the novel Uglies, the author Scott Westerfeld created a dystopia to show how different it is compared to modern society. The novel has many unfair rules but there are two that stand out the most. Even though modern society has standards, but it is not as extreme as Uglies. Surgery in Uglies is perceived much differently than it is in modern society. In the novel, when a citizen turns 16 they are forced to get a surgery from head to toe. Tally Youngblood is 15 almost 16 and is ready for her surgery. As Tally stated,“They said at school they could make the operation on fifteen-year-olds now. Waiting until sixteen is just a stupid tradition”(Westerfeld 83). In other words, Tally is saying that
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