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Thank you for supporting the top site for book series recaps, and we hope you continue to find it a useful resource! April 4, In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. That's irony with a capital Alanis Morrissette. Note: not all the examples in that song are really irony.
This might seem like a sad, tragic end—the big guy wins, the underdog loses. Usually, we like it the other way around, where the big guy loses and the underdog gets carried off by people in a parade. But that doesn't happen here. Instead, we basically get a big neon sign flashing "to be continued. At least, that's her plan—and we'll have to read the sequel to see how it all turns out. Some readers might not like this cliffhanger ending because it's so, well, cliffhangery. They begin a romance which crushes her friend Shay who had her own romantic ideas about David.
David teaches Tally everything he knows about the wild, about his philosophy about the City and most importantly what the operation actually does. It not only transforms your body, but it transforms your mind as well so that you cannot think for yourself or question authority. The city injects nanos into your brain which keep you under their control through compliance. The city Specials arrive the next day and destroy the smoke and Tally is exposed as a traitor.
To try to prove her intentions, she volunteers to return to the city to be transformed into a Pretty so that they can try the cure on her. Shay is kidnapped by the specials and transformed into a Pretty. Beauty What constitutes beauty and what benefits are there to being beautiful? What would happen if everyone was beautiful? The idea behind the transformation was to rid society of anorexia, jealousy, wars.
If everyone was perfect there would be nothing to be angry about because everyone is wonderful. However, even within the Pretties, there are slight jealousies about clothes, eye colour, hair colour.
The nature of the human condition has not been changed by its outward appearance. Possessions and Status In our modern world we revere beauty and there are many statistics to support that the more attractive a person is perceived, the better they will do in life in terms of material wealth and societal status.
Pretty Town tries to eliminate this by providing everything a pretty could want, food, clothes, accommodation. Everything is taken care of and everything is uniform aside from some minute personal choices.
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