Part 2

The dystopian in the novel "Uglies" is clearly in the title. The problem in this book is stated in the title and it is that people think that they are ugly just because that is what they are told, and because they are not "regular". This is decided by the government in the book, these people are also known as special circumstances. And when Tally goes to become pretty the government has found out that she is friends with someone that is a part of the smoke. The smoke is a group of people who have run away from the regular society that everybody else is a part of, people who have avoided becoming pretty. She is then not allowed to become pretty until she finds her friend Shay who has run to the smoke. It is shown here that the government is obsessed with controlling who is pretty and who isn't. The reason for this that is found out in the book is that when the surgery is performed there is something that is done to the brain. They insert a lesion that changes the way that they think. It seems to make them happy all the time. But this happiness comes with a side effect, their become less intelligent. But the government mainly gains control over all people in the society. The only people who do not have the brain lesions are the people who have either important or government jobs. It has been made clear that the government wants control over everything.
I think that the author is trying to make a point with what the media is doing today. I have noticed that what is pretty is decided by the media just as who is pretty is decided by the government in the book. This is why the world (in the book) is far from being prefect. Even though there are many people who are unaware of the brain lesions in may seem perfect. One of the main reasons that I continued to read this book was because it led me to wonder if it was possible for a government in the current world to do this. This book showed me that if the government was to do this today most of the people would know nothing about it and would have been just as all of the pretties were in the book, they would have been clueless and the government could dispose of the people who found out what was going on. This is what happens in the book. When Tally is forced to goes to the smoke the special circumstances have forced her to find the place. The government wants to dispose of all of the people who have avoided becoming pretty. The government wants everything to go the way that it has been planned. And the smoke is the one place where people can avoid the surgery. What the media calls "pretty" in modern day society is unjust almost all models are skinny, and almost all models are underweight, this is just as unhealthy as being over weight. Being pretty is a bit different in the book. Pretty is being completely average, so essentially the surgery is making people think alike and look alike. That is what I think about social justice in the book, the media decides who and what is pretty, just as it is in the current world. One of the injustices that I previously stressed was that the government is in control over the people in the book. The citizens in new pretty town are under the control of the special circumstances. Another unjust circumstance that is described is that it is possible for someone to not fit in just because they are ugly. People are being discriminated against because of the way that they look. This is one of the reasons that people get things such as plastic surgery, because they are tired of being judged by the way that they look. The is unjust because people cannot control the way that they look. All they can control is their action. And even though some people may think less highly of Tally because she is "ugly" she may still be respected because of her bravery. Another example of this would be after Shay gets the surgery Croy Will agree to anything that she says. I think that the author does a very good job of showing the dystopian. It took my only a couple of chapters to figure out the message that  the author was trying to get across.

After reading the novel I think that the injustices that the author was trying to get across was that people will almost always believe things that are told to them by a higher rank. I think this because almost all of the people who are yet to undergo the surgery to become pretty think that they are ugly. And the only reason that they think this is because they have been told this. And they think that the people that have undergone the surgery are pretty. I think that the author is trying to open the eyes of the reader to how the media has influenced the way that we think of beauty.

I think that the message is brought across clearly but the reader must be a of a certain age for them to understand that the author is talking about something other that a world that is based in the future. But they way that the message about the media is not hard to find as it was brought up throughout the entire book.