Uglies Scott Westerfeld Character Analysis

“When she awoke, the world was on Fire”. (Westerfeld 164) She saw fields on fire, and all that can comes to her head is to run. Fear is alive in her body and she has a different mindset. Tally wants going to be pretty, but to get there she has to risk her life, just to change her face. To get what you want in life one has to endure a lot. Tally, the main character in Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, is a regular citizen of Uglyville but as she is about to turn pretty she has to report a place that is close to her heart and her friends heart. Tally’s main concern is being pretty, however she has to endure hardship, fear, and compassion to find that pretty is ugly. Being pretty seems perfect, uglies turn sixteen and then a few weeks later, BAM

She has to endure a problem that no other sixteen year old has to deal with. While all of her friends are waiting for her she is stuck as an ugly and is just trying to make it through. So, she can either stay ugly or rat her friends out. For sixteen years she counts down the days, and the summer before her birthday, all of her expectations vanish. She wants to be like everyone else in New Pretty Town but she has to do the unthinkable just to be like everyone else. She forges a strong relationship with a girl named Shay, but as the days get closer, Shay leaves, and turns Tally’s world upside down. “The man said, “There’s a problem with your operation. Come with me.”(Westerfield 98) Shay and Tally made a strong and personal friendship. They trust each other with all of their problems and secrets, but when Shay leaves, Tally is faced with a tough choice. Tally is forced to stay ugly or destroy the trust between the two of them. This is the hardest decision Tally has had to make in her whole life: report the Smoke. She betrays Shay and goes ahead and let Special Circumstances

When Tally arrived, getting it done and over with is all that is in Tally’s head. Although, when she heard the stories of what it took to get it all where, her whole concept on the Smoke changed. Tally has mixed emotions on she should do. “Over his years of helping runaways to find the Smoke, David had encountered wild animals, forest fires, and bio-engineered poisonous plants. But nothing was more dangerous than a city afraid of change.” (Westerfeld ) She does not know what David has devoted to the Smoke. She thinks it is just woods, little does she know, people live there. They all have a reason to be there, and for Tally to just unravel the secretive smoke to others will just make her selfish. That is what she was scared of. She does not let the special circumstances know. Tally inadvertently lets Special Circumstances know by throwing the trinket into a fire. Special Circumstances came and completely destroy the Smoke and the People. She runs from them, but she comes to rescue the citizens in New Pretty Town. She shows a personality that she has never shown before, she helps David get himself together by finding his family and his community. Tally has shown many character traits throughout the book, it may seem that she is doing this only for herself, but she will stop and help David in the