Summary Of Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

In the original scene from Uglies, Scott Westerfeld chooses first to describe how Tally conceives a letter written for herself, in which she justifies her actions. This explanation is supposed to provide her with an inner consent for the acceptance of experimental pills, but only reveals the uncertainty reigning in her psyche. In the scene, she thinks about the future and David and their joint past. She also asks herself, how much time it would take to start missing David and whether she would be strong enough to overcome the lesions caused by the operation. It seems that she hopes she would beat the lesions, because she knew about them, beforehand, unlike other uglies. A wave of fear touches her when a hovercar stops by, due to the more frequent
Seemingly the author chose this scene to describe in a fraction of time the complex thought process, tainted with hope as well as the fear that is taking place in Tally’s mind. She feels the coming rupture with the past and is afraid that this transformation is not only going to cause profound changes in her relationship to David but cause major differences in her interaction with the current environment and her belonging to a certain caste. She is afraid of the shallowness and loss of intelligence that will follow after the operation and confronts the depth of this dramatic transformation. However, at the moment when she enters the warden’s hover, she makes it to gather forces and to re-affirm her ambitions, symbolized by her proud self-presentation to the warden, which is chosen by the author precisely, for this reason, embodying re-affirmation and determination after initial doubts (424-425). Shay, in her scene view, as we have re-created it taking her point of view as the base, enhances her lack of understanding of Tally’s motives as well as the shallow perception of reality, which is likely to be caused by the