Plot Summary
Uglies is a science fiction novel written by Scott Westerfeld. In the story that takes a period of time in future, the government provides all needed supply for people. When people turn sixteen, they get in an operation that makes them look pretty. After getting in the operation, people cross the river from Uglyville to New pretty town and live a new life with no responsibilities. Tally Youngblood can’t wait to take her license for turning pretty and to come together with her friend Peris again who already lives in New Pretty Town. Before her birthday Tally goes to the place that Peris lives, Garbo Mansion, to talk with him even for a little bit. When returning back to Uglyville Tally meets a girl named Shay and they become friends.
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She doesn’t know that tracker activate itself when it gets damaged. Special Circumstances occupy Smoke at the following morning when Tally is asleep. Dr. Cable, the head of Special Circumstances, still thinks Tally is on their side but Tally hides out with David.
Literary Devices
Imagery - “Her thin lips pursed with unhappiness. Her hair grew even frizzier because she kept running her hands through it in frustration. A trio of zits exploded across her forehead, as if marking the days since her sixteenth birthday” (Westerfeld 120). The Imagery helps the reader to create the picture of Tally in their mind.
Simile - “It was as rough as the wood grain of the table in the dining hall, the skin along his thumb as hard and dry as leather cracking with age” (Westerfeld 217). The skin is compared to the table in the dining hall and leather. The simile helps the reader understand the texture of skin more fertile.
Personification - “Tally collapsed on the ground and coughed, her lungs finally protesting against the smoke and dust particles she had inhaled” (Westerfeld 335). Human quality is given to lungs. Personification helps the reader to understand the idea and it makes the sentence more