Uglies by Scott Westerfield is set in the future. In the book once you turn 16 you get an operation that turns you from a normal person (Ugly) to a perfect human, a pretty. Pretties are perfect in every way. They have the body of a supermodel and a beautiful face. Once you have this operation you move away from Ugly town, a quiet normal suburban area, to New Pretty Town, which is a lively city with a wild nightlife.
How Scott Westerfield perceptions of the future:
There will be new technology such as Hover boards that know you’re its owner, floating ice rinks, and everyone has an interface ring that lets you communicate with inanimate objects around you, like elevators or the hover boards.
The main conflict in the book is the operation that turns
you into a pretty, this operation makes you beautiful but most of all once you
move to new pretty town you are an equal to everyone around you. You are just
as beautiful as anyone around you but no more beautiful. This fixes a lot of
problems in the world today. No one is competing to be more beautiful, no one is
fighting over it, but what types of consequences does it have? Not everyone
follows the rules. Such as, Tally Youngblood and her new best friend Shay. When
Shay decides she doesn’t want her operation she runs away to The Smoke, a
secret reserve where rebel Uglies go to stay away from getting turned into a
Pretty. Tally stays behind but once it’s her turn for her operation she gets
told there is a problem and is forced to figure out some uudecoded clues left
behind for her to solve to find and lead people to The Smoke to find Shay.
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