Pretties part 1

         So now that I've talked about Uglies, I can start talking about Pretties. Pretties starts off a couple weeks after the ending of Uglies. I liked that because it seemed like Tally was a completely different person in the first few chapters. In the first book Tally was hesitant for most of the book, and she only got a little bit of confidence at the end of the book. She seemed like any regular teenager but in Pretties she seemed like she had become not mature but older. Which she obviously had changed, it was just so dramatic, that it showed you how different the lesions actually made you.
         Now that Tally's pretty her priorities went from if she was going to survive in the woods, to what dress she should wear for the party that was happening that night. While Tally's at a party she sees someone dressed as a special and she decides to follow them. She eventually finds them and is given an address "Valentino 317" . It turns out that the person in the special costume was a person from the Smokies. It turned out that Valentino 317 didn't exist in the building in the building but on it. I think the author did this to show that just because someone implanted something into you and essentially brain washed you; it is possible to get over anything. People don't control you and no matter how hard someone can try and change you, you will always have that little spark inside of you that makes you, you. Tally proves this point (although she did have the help of her friend Zane, who kept her 'bubbly'), she overcame the obstacles keeping her from being herself and ended up finding the cure that David's mom had been working on.
         Zane takes one of the two pills, while Tally takes the other. After taking the pills they both start to get some of their old selves back. Zane and Tally are apart of a group called the Crims (a.k.a. Criminals). The Crims take pride in performing tricks. Tally and Zane convince the group to break the ice skating rink (because this is 300 years in the future, the ice skating rink is hovering in the air). After the prank Tally is approached by Dr. Cable, 
       "You resist conditioning well very well."
        "Conditioning. That's what you call it?" Tally swore. "Like it's a hair treatment or something?"
        "Amazing." Dr. Cable leaned close again, her eyes focusing on Tally's as if trying to bore through her brain. "Somewhere in there, you're still a tricky little ugly, aren't you? Most impressive. I could use you, I think." (pg. 132).
        After this Dr. Cable talks about how Tally would be perfect for Special Circumstances. Tally obviously denies, but Dr. Cable reveals that most Specials were like Tally and all of them became Special. How would you feel knowing that your life was practically taken from you the day you were born? Knowing that when you turn sixteen, you will get turned into a completely different person? That if you try to change and go against your destiny, you will be hunted down and changed against your will.

 

Do you believe you have free will or is everything already decided for you?