People Below Tally Themes

As is true for most stories, Specials has multiple themes and teaches many important lessons. One central theme is the idea that human nature cannot be controlled, especially their disagreeable mannerisms. The government in Tally’s world attempts to control not only the way people look, but the way they think as well. In the class of people below Tally, the “pretties”, doctors secretly create lesions in the brain during surgery, essentially brainwashing their citizens to make them less confrontational and easier to control. Tally is a special because the pretty surgery did not work on her. Her brain is too powerful to be corrupted even by specifically calculated lesions. A few of her friends join her in the transformation from pretty to special