Ultimately, she throws the locket given to her by Dr.
Tally's world is rocked by this revelation and by her feelings for David, the first ugly who Tally finds beautiful. The surgery might make one beautiful, but it also inserts lesions into the human brain that render one unintelligent and docile. David brings Tally to meet his parents, Maddy and Az, who inform Tally that there is a secret behind the operation, one kept from the larger population. She gives Tally a locket to activate once she has arrived, and promises that if Tally is successful, she will still receive the surgery.įollowing a coded note from Shay, Tally journeys to the Smoke, where she makes friends with its inhabitants and falls in love with the child of its founders, David. Cable-a Special, or a pretty who has been surgically altered to have superhuman abilities and terrifying facial features, whose job is to ensure the continued existence of the current regime-threatens to withhold Tally's surgery unless she follows Shay to the Smoke and betrays its location.
On the morning of her surgery, Tally is taken to a secret underground bunker, where Dr. While waiting out her last days as an ugly, Tally befriends Shay, whose negative view of the surgery leads her to run away the city to the Smoke, a settlement of people who have successfully evaded the operation and are living in the wild. It levels the playing field between people with nearly identical appearances come nearly identical survival rates. Tally Youngblood is one of the last uglies in her community to undergo the mandatory plastic surgery that turns sixteen-year-olds into pretties, people whose appearance has been altered to reflect her culture's beauty ideal.Īccording to her society, this operation is intended as an equalizing force.
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