Blog Post on Uglies Series

I am at the very end of Specials, a book that I read quite a long time ago. It is the story of Tally, and her life as a special, and her saving the world, well again. I think that Specials differs from the previous two books in the serious because for the first time Tally is confident with herself, and no longer feels weaker than everyone else. I thought the author, Scott Westefield did a good job describing Tally through her life. In the first book, Uglies, Tally is very innocent and blinded. She knows not about Special Circumstances, who she will later become, and she is convinced that being Pretty is the right thing to do. In the second book, Pretties Tally is pretty-minded through part of the book, and in the other part she is trying to save her friends while at the same time trying to figure out who she is.
But in Specials, she knows who she is and that person is someone strong, and knows what is right and wrong. She has strong beliefs of her own now and can maker choices and plans for herself. In the other books she was always confused whether the choice she was making was the right one, and what the consequences were going to be. In Specials she knows that every choice she will make will have consequences, and that waiting for someone to make the right choice with sometimes make it too late. When she decides to go into Special Circumstances, she is not only risking her life but the future of everyone else. She could have made someone else make the choice for her, but she did it herself choosing she has become a stronger character,
Tally has also clearly developed in her thoughts as well. As an ugly, her brain is "normal"and no machines have tampered with het thoughts. Yet in that society anyone who has not had the operation to become pretty is seen as ugly, so Tally sees herself as worthless. When she meets her friends Shay, and they travel to the Smoke, her mind is changed and she realizes how horrible the city is. As a Pretty, her mind is again tampered with and she forgets everything that happened to her, so she is almost a different person. Yet through it all, Tally carried her beliefs and ideals no matter what the doctors did with her brain.