Uglies By Scott Westerfled

There is no doubt that this book won’t be read 100 years from now. The book, “Uglies” By: Scott Westerfled is truly a great novel. This book determines that beauty is not all that proves you as a person. Beauty belongs to everyone, everywhere. In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
Tally must figure herself out before she undergoes surgery at the age of sixteen to become “pretty”: or what is so called pretty. Tally and Peris are the best of friends, but when Peris becomes pretty, Tally is left to figure out how to deal with Peris leaving. A wait of three months until Tally finally would get the surgery to become pretty. Throughout this wait, Tally meets a girl named Shay while sneaking out to New Pretty Town, where Peris lived
This book will teach the generations to come that if you want to be beautiful you’ll have to be a whole new person, a photo shopped fake. Today in advertisements and magazines we are presented with beautiful images of men and women, girls and boys. We are presented with fake pictures, imaginary pictures, something that will never happen, but we are totally fooled into believing that true beauty is what’s presented in magazines and advertisements. This book teaches us that our imperfections make us beautiful, that for beauty you lose your people, and you’ll regret it. The imagination of being perfect is told in someone else’s point of view. Our society is proven to believe that a person with a combination of qualities that pleases others is beautiful, but your imperfections are what make you beautiful. As Marilyn Monroe said “Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” Tally is taught in The Smoke, that alongside the surgery, “uglies” face tiny complications from the anaesthetic used in the operation, tiny lesions in the brain that were barely visible. These lesions were basically a
Life isn’t about impressing others, but it’s about impressing yourself, proving yourself wrong, making yourself proud, and lastly live life to impress yourself, not others, because in the end of the day you have to wake up with yourself every morning, with the same flaws, and the same imperfections, so learn to be thankful for what you have rather than wishing for other things. Life isn’t about money, or how much money you make, but it’s about how many lives you’ve changed. Wishes come true, but in reality, hard work is wishing, your wishes never come true, you make them come true. In this book, Tally takes her beauty for granted; she always insults herself, calls herself ugly and never accepts the true beauty she has. She wishes every single day that she was a pretty; she hides herself from the public sometimes, because she can’t stand her face. She constantly reminds herself that there is a pretty side to the world, and she isn’t in it, nevertheless she is included