Symbolism In Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

The novel “Uglies” by Scott Westerfeld has an enormous amount of symbolism within thisnovel, that people can take from. In the story you are born “ugly” and when you turn 16 yearsold you get an operation to make you a “pretty” and then you get to live in New Pretty Townwith all of the pretties. The Ruins was a place that had depended all on oil, and crumbled downwhen they had run out that resource. This city symbolizes how easily things can fall especially ifyou only depend on one thing. Another symbol in the novel is the heart shaped pendant whichsymbolizes Tally’s conscience and all of the tough decisions she has to make. For example atough decision she had to make was when she had to tell Special Circumstances where Shay wasor she would