SPECIALS
BY: SCOTT WESTERFELD
By: Shannon Smith
6th hour
Mrs. Cummins’s Class
THE SERIES
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The “Uglies Series” is made up of 4 books.
(Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras)
“A world where
everyone’s ugly.
And than there
not.”
“What if
“Frighteningly beautiful, “Where fame,
perfection Dangerously strong,
popularity, and
isn't good Breathtakingly fast.”
celebrity rule.”
enough?”
THE SETTING:
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The setting occurs in many places
throughout the book.
One place is the city. This is where the
littlies, uglies, pretties, and crumblies
live. This is also where the Special
Circumstance Headquarters is.
Another setting in this book is the wild.
This is the land that is uncharted and
out-of-bounds to the citizens. The
Specials get to live in the wild because
they are suppose to keep people out of
the wild and keep the pretties from
destroying it. The run-away uglies
called the Smokies, have lost there
home because of Tally. To Tally, who is
a special; the Smokies are dangerous
because they bring deadly nanos into
the city. They also live in the wild.
OLD SETTINGS:
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THE RUSTY RUINS:
The Rusty Ruins is a setting that occurred multiple times in the
book, “Uglies” . This setting is remnants of our world after a
massive nuclear bomb. The Rusty Ruins are a way of telling
people that Rusties made a big mistake by making violence to its
fullest extent.
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THE SMOKE:
The Smoke is a civilization of ugly-runaways. The Smoke is a vast
area of land that has buildings that are similar to camp cabins
and mess halls. There are hover paths so the Smokies can ride
around on hover boards. But, that was the Old Smoke. Now, the
Smoke is on the move to find a new location, if there is one.
- THE SPEACIAL CIRCUMSTANCE
HEADQUATERS:
This is where the Specials are made and where new operations are
tested and invented. This is also where Tally first met a Special.
This is also where David’s father, Az, died.
THE HISTORY OF TALLY-WA
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Tally is the main character in
the “Uglies” series.
In the book, “Uglies” , Tally Youngblood is a
15- year- old ugly. She is eagerly waiting for
her 16th birthday to join her friend Perris, in
New Pretty Town. When you turn 16, you go
through an operation, that turns you
beautiful in every way. But, Tally has a new
friend named Shay. Shay does not want to
become pretty and wants to run away to the
Smoke.(An outside of the city Civilization)
When she turns 16, Shay has already ran
away. The Specials, who rule the city give her
a choice, to stay Ugly forever, or track down
Shay, turn her in, and she gets to become
pretty. Tally had no choice but to betray this
“Smoke” and her friend. While at the Smoke,
she falls in love with David, whose parents
tells her about lesions, a tiny tumor in a
pretty’s brain. After the Smoke gets
destroyed, Maddy, David’s mom comes up
with a cure for lesions that Tally promises to
take as soon as she turns pretty.
- In the 2nd book,” Pretties”, Tally has everything she
has ever wanted. She is part of a popular clique, called
the Crims. At her first party, she comes in touch with
one of the Smokies who tells her about the cure and
where to find them. Zane, the leader of the Crims; falls
in love with Tally. After there first kiss, Zane forces Tally
to remember her ugly past and tell him EVERYTHING.
Then, Tally and Zane go and find this “cure”. They are 2
tiny white pills. They each take one pill. There is a
backfire with these pills. One of them carries deadly
nanos that wipe out the lesions. The other carries the
cure for nanos. Without the cure for the nanos, the
nanos could tear your brain apart. That is what
happened to Zane. When Zane started having these
headaches, they ran away to the New Smoke with other
Crims in hope that Maddie could cure Zane. They left
Shay behind with her group, called, the “Cutters”.
When, they run away trying to get to the Rusty Ruins
with a hot-air-balloon; Tally stays on to long and ends
up in a testing area of violence. She learns that the
lesions are a way that stops violence from occurring.
She also learns that this testing area is where the
operation was invented. Blinded by love, she goes to
the New Smoke anyway to see if Zane is ok or not.
There is a catch, when Zane and Tally were still in New
Pretty Town, Zane broke his wrist and had to be
unconscious while the doctors fixed his hand. They
found that Zane had nanos and took the chance to put a
tracker in his tooth. So, the Specials caught Tally and
Zane in the New Smoke while the others escaped
because Tally didn’t want to leave poor Zane behind.
Shay had already became Special and took Tally back
to the city to become a Special.
PLOT
The plot includes rising action, climax, falling
action, and resolution.
RISING ACTION:
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Tally and the Cutters crash an ugly bash. They are looking for Smokies
that give out highly dangerous nanos to uglies and pretties. Tally finds
the Smokie and tries to knock her out but comes up with a better idea.
She chases the Smokie girl to find she is David’s new girlfriend. The
Cutters end up in a fight that loses Fausto, almost kills Shay, and Tachs
is left unconscious.
Tally finds out that Zane is still alive and wants to see him. She is still
madly in love with him. Shay wants to differ and says Tally should go out
to the wild and look for Fuasto. Tally makes Shay promise to take her to
Zane. When Tally sees Zane, she feels disgusted. She wanted to have the
feeling she use to have when Zane was around, not disgusted. After her
visit with Zane, Tally is determined for Zane to become a special so she
can love him.
Shay and Tally come up with a plan, help Zane escape his bubblehead
prison, track him to the New Smoke, and end the Smokies forever. There
is a problem; Zane has a collar that is made out of orbital-alloy, and for
him to escape Tally and Shay have to steal from the Armory. The armory
is the city’s military database. Tally and Shay end up destroying the
armory to get the orbital alloy cutting tool.
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Tally and Shay set Zane free with the cutting tool. The Crims put the
necklace and interface rings on animal balloons so the city can’t track
them. The Crims run away. Shay and Tally start tracking the Crims. On
the way, the Crims meet with a person who gives them a position finder
for there next destination. Tally decides to see if she can get a position
finder herself while Shay is still tracking the Crims. She runs into
Andrew Simpson Smith. He is a villager and holly man of the violence
testing site village. He gives Tally a position finder also. Half-way from
home, Shay gives up on Tally and decides to find the Smoke herself. Tally
stays with the Crims.
CLIMAX
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When the Crims and Tally get to the position-finder
destination, Tally is extremely bored. She has
helped the Crims out of danger once before and
wants to do it again. The Crim’s hover boards are
necessary to get to the New Smoke. Tally realizes
they might blow away while the Crims are sleeping.
She goes over to the camp to “help”.
She gets caught! Zane wants to desperately talk to
Tally and wants to convince her that he is still her
true love. Zane and Tally kiss. While they are
kissing, Tally sees all of Zane’s body and she sees
the effects from brain loss in a major way. Tally is
disgusted when she even looks at him; but to kiss
him! Tally runs away from Zane because she pities
Zane so much as if he would die right in front of her.
(Hint, Hint)
I made an image
myself to represent
the climax.
FALLING ACTION:
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A helicopter arrives. The helicopter is there to take the Crims to the New Smoke.
After the helicopter left, Tally jumps from a cliff in midair, and succeeds a landing on
the landing bars below the helicopter. The helicopter takes her to another city. The
smokies had gotten a whole city to join them! A city called, Diego.
Once on the ground, Tally notices the costume surges and pretty surges are as wild
as her sharp as needle teeth, and razor sharp finger nails. She could fit in. When she
spotted out where the run-a-ways were, she met with Fuasto who was a long lost
Cutter. Something was different about him; Tally could see it in his eyes. He was
cured. Tally new right away that it was a trap. She ran away from Fuasto by
jumping of a cliff, and nearly died.
The wardens found Tally and took her to the city hospital. When Tally, awoke from
unconsciousness, she found out she was a “Violation of Morphology”. She was about
to be de-specialized when Shay came to rescue her. They fought there way out of the
hospital with ease, but, something was different about Shay too. Shay was cured.
Tally tried to escape but the other cutters already had her pinned to the ground.
They were all cured too. The cutters told Tally that because of her little trick in
destroying the armory; Dr. Cable was going to have a full out attack on Diego. A war
was about to start.
The bombs came pounding on Diego. The Town Hall was destroyed and the hospital
was badly damaged after the bombardment. The patients were evacuated out of the
hospital a split second before the bombs started. So, all the Cutters had to do was a
search through the hospital. Half-way through the search, Shay found Zane.
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Zane was in a operation tank, barley breathing. The doctors said that Zane was going to
die if he was removed from the tank. They needed that tank desperately for a unconscious
crumblie. Tally already new Zane was dead. She bade him a kiss goodbye, and ran off.
Tally was now on her way home. When she reached the Rusty Ruins, she realized how close
Diego had come to the same fate. Then a ping came into her skintenna system. A cutter
couldn’t have followed her? When she found where the ping had came from, David, was
waiting for her. David told her how they had taken over Diego, and there plans for the
“Revolution”. He gave her the injector for the cure. A cure, Tally could never take.
In the city, she contacted Dr. Cable at once. Instead of Dr. Cable, it was Maxamilla Feaster;
one of Cable’s sub commanders. Feaster gave Tally coordinates to where Dr. Cable was. (
Level J, Operating Theater) As soon as she got to there, she was cornered by 10 specials
and Dr. Cable herself. Dr. Cable already new and told Tally who she really was to special
circumstances; a use. Tally threatened Dr. Cable by saying that her whole body was a
satellite done by a crazy surgery in Diego. The whole city would know who Dr. Cable really
was and Cable’s little secrets too. Dr. Cable was frightened by this. All Tally said was,
“Oops, I forgot to send it.”; and plunged the injector into Dr. Cable’s skin. She was captured
with ease.
After Tally was locked up in her cell, Diego started sending detailed pictures of Tally’s
body. A warning, that specials were dangerous. The cure started to take a change in Dr.
Cable too. And with in a month, one by one, all the specials were turned into average,
normal pretties. Except Tally. Her cell suddenly started to leak out knock-out gas, one
specially made just for Tally. A voice said, “Don’t just stand there, act like your
passing out.”. Tally was carried out of the cell, stripped of her clothes, and was put into an
operating tank. A liquid filled up the tank, a liquid that was suppose to keep you alive
while the doctors shredded you into pieces. Except this time, Tally would feel it, all.
Tally started to panic. She yanked out breathing tube and started to shake the tank to the
floor. She new someone had to rescue her. The voice kept saying, “ Stay still, I’m coming.”.
When the tank came crashing down to the floor, she crawled out of the tank. Dr. Cable was
waiting for her.
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The cure had taken full effect on Cable now. She had black soft eyes and a
voice soft and calm. Not the sharpness of a special’s voice. She still had
special abilities and physical appearances, but Dr. Cable, was changed.
Tally was in a ball, hiding her naked body. Tally said, “Why”. Dr. Cable
explained. Cable said that Tally was the last true special and that in order
for Tally to go out into the wild, she had to promise to stay a cutter,
forever.
Dr. Cable handed Tally a sneak-suit. At least, she wasn’t naked anymore.
She left Special Circumstances and went to the rusty ruins, where she
last met with David. She got messages in her skintenna system the next
day. They were from Maddie, Perris, and Shay. They explained what was
up with the world, and if Tally would join each revolution band. That
afternoon, David arrived.
This image signifies that
Tally is the only true
special left, and has to
stay like that, forever.
THEME AND RESOLUTION
The moral of the story with an example from the
book. The resolution of the story.
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Tally told David what messages she got that morning. She said, “I love you, that is
what Maddie told me to say to you for her.” David and Tally talked about there
opinions on this “revolution” and sent out this Manifesto the next day to Maddie,
Perris, and Shay.
“I don’t need to be cured. Just like I don’t need to cut myself to feel, or think.
From now on, no one rewires my mind but me. Back in Diego, the doctors
said that I could learn to control my behavior, ad I have. You all helped, in
one way or another. But you know what? It’s not my behavior I’m worried
about anymore. It’s yours. That’s why you won’t be seeing me for a while,
maybe a long time. David and I are staying out here in the wild. You all say
you need us. Well, maybe you do, but do not to help you. You have enough
help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with al
the cities coming awake at last. Together, you’re more than enough change
to the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in
your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things. You have your
New Smokes, your new ideas, whole New Cities and New Systems. Well…
we’re the new Special Circumstances. Whenever you push to far into the
wild, we’ll be here waiting, ready to push back. Remember us every time you
decide to dig a new foundation, dam a river, or cut down a tree. Worry about
us. However hungry the human race becomes now that the pretties are
waking up, the wild still has teeth. Special teeth, Ugly teeth. Us. We’ll be out
here somewhere-watching. Ready to remind you of the price the Rusties paid
for going too far. I love you all. But it’s time to say good-bye, for now. Be
careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.
- Tally Youngblood” pg 349-350
THEME
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The moral of the story is, “Think twice before you act. What might happen
if you do this, and how will other people react?”
Tally and Shay destroy the armory while stealing a tool. They do it for
Tally’s happiness. They don’t think on how it would effect the city.
“Their exploits at the Armory now seemed like a practical jokeone that had gotten a little out of hand, maybe…. Her skintenna
was crackling with the city’s high alert; wardens and regular
Specials out in force, the newsfeeds openly wondering if the city
was at war. Half of Crumblyville had seen the inferno on the
horizon, and the giant pile of black foam where the Armory had
once stood was hard to explain away. There were military
hovercraft visible over the center of town, stationed to protect the
city government from any further attacks. The nightly fireworks
displays had been canceled until further notice, leaving the skyline
strangely dark.” pg. 129-130
CHARACTERS
There are many characters in this book and all of
them have different traits; minor, major, static,
dynamic, antagonist, and protagonist.
TALLY YOUNGBLOOD/ TALLY-WA:
MAJOR, DYNAMIC, PROTAGONIST
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Tally is a fighting machine, like all Cutters; she
has finger nails sharp as chainsaws, teeth; pointy
as needles, airplane-ceramic bones, and muscles
that never sore. She has scars from previous
cuttings, and flash tattoos that spin with every
heartbeat.
Tally is the main character in this book. Tally is a
Special. A special is someone who keeps the
civilians from breaking the laws and going out into
the wild. She is part of a group called the
“Cutters”. To make her mind clear, she cuts
herself with a knife. When the pain ceases from
her arm/hand, it makes her icy so she can see in
any situation and hear things that are to soft for
an average human to hear. She is very cautious
and very clever. She is very stubborn when she
doesn’t get her way. She is also in love with her 2nd
boyfriend, Zane. Even if she is in love, her body is
engineered to be disgusted when she sees an
average, or below average like Zane.
There are so many
drawings of Tally
on the internet. I
thought this one
portrayed her the
most.
SHAY-LA/BOSS: MAJOR, STATIC,
PROTAGONIST
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Shay is the leader of the Cutters. She is
cautious like Tally but, she never misses
out on a capture or fight. Even when she
was half-drowned, she still proceeded to
finish her task. She is some what of a
baad girl. She doesn’t like taking orders
from anyone, even from her best friend,
Tally. When she does make a promise to
Tally, she goes of alone and leaves her
behind.
Shay has the same cruel beauty that any
special might have. She has the most
scars and the most flash tattoos.
I couldn’t find a
picture of Shay,
so I made one
myself.
ZANE: MAJOR, STATIC,
PROTAGONIST
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Zane is the leader of the Crims and Tally’s 2nd
boyfriend. He fell in love with Tally in the 2nd book. In
the 2nd book, Zane had brain loss that made him loose
his motor abilities. So, in the third book, “Specials”, he
is crippled and still is suffering from brain loss. He still
This is one of
loves Tally and can’t understand why she can’t love
the million
him until he is a Special. He doesn’t want to become a
versions of
Special.
Zane.
Zane is skinny to the bone because of a extreme makeup surges he does for parties. He is crippled and has
shakes and tremors. He has ink black hair and soft red
lips. He wears a dorm jacket.
DAVID: MAJOR,
ANTAGONIST/PROTAGONIST, STATIC
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David is the son of the founders of the smoke.(Maddy
and Az) Maddy created the cure for pretties that
David, being the leader of the Smoke, has to deliver to
the cities. David is also Tally’s X-boyfriend. So Tally
has hatred towards him as an enemy to the city, and
towards him being her friend. David is a cheater. He
goes from favorite to favorite. David is trustworthy
while you’re his favorite. He is kind to an extent. He is
very sneaky and is a huge risk-taker.
David has a scar on his right eyebrow and
imperfections of living out in the wild for his whole life.
He wears a t-shirt and leather pants. He wears a
jacket made out of animal skins sewn together.
I couldn’t find a picture of
David, so I just got a
picture of what he wears.
THE CUTTERS: MINOR,
STATIC
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The Cutter tries things that no other Specials have tried
before. The Cutters push beyond Special limits and
abilities. They cut or brand themselves to make there
minds clear and don’t report back until a task is succeeded.
Even when they are on the brink of death, they never call
for help. This is also the clique Tally is in.
Tally, is leading
the Cutters into
the wild where
they will capture
the Smokies.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
There are many examples of Figurative
Language throughout any book. These
examples include; imagery, foreshadowing,
similes, metaphors, personification,
onomatopoeia.
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Imagery:
A. “The uglies just stood there, so shy and self-conscious that any one actually dancing
looked like they were trying to hard.” pg.8
B. “He was bearded and dirty-faced, his clothing nothing but strips of animal skins
crudely sewn together.” pg.143
C. He felt like the flowers were waving him a hello. (online example)
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Foreshadowing:
A. “In the beginning, all it took was a kiss.” pg.180
B. “ Who ever it was could move as silently as David” pg. 141
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Simile:
A. “ …grippy shoes squeaked like panicked mice…” pg. 113
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Metaphor:
A. “ Instead of cutting her into ribbons…” pg. 198
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Alliteration:
A. Becky’s beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy. (online example)
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Personification:
A. “ Tiny icicles shaken from the pine needles” pg. 3
B. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky. (online example)
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Onomatopoeia:
A. “Ping!” pg. 13
B. “Buzzz” pg. 142
C. “Boom” pg. 117
CONFLICTS
There are many types of conflicts that occur in a
book. These include man vs. man, man vs. nature,
man vs. society, and man vs. self.
Tally vs. Shay: Shay and Tally get in an
argument when they follow Zane and the other
Crims to the New Smoke. They are arguing if
they should go ahead of the Crims with the
position finder, or lack behind the Crims and try
not to get seen.
 Tally vs. Herself: Tally struggles to control her
behavior while she waits to see Zane alive one
last time.
 Tally vs. Society: Tally and Shay fight against
Wardens in Diego to get out of the hospital before
Tally is despecialized.
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CREDITS
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Images:
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Clip Art
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Paint
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/buildings/a-library-addition-at-u-ofchicago-keeps-books-close/5155
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http://sandyhillcamp.com/tour_9.htm
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http://www.clker.com/clipart-paper-writing.html
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http://www.clker.com/clipart--skateboarding-stick-figure.html
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http://projectjacobg.blogspot.com/2012/07/my-spur-of-momentwish-list.html
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http://www.clipartmojo.com/clip-art/roller-coaster-04-3627/
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http://elglin.deviantart.com/art/Tally-Youngblood-SPECIAL166434295?q=gallery%3AElglin%2F112163&qo=11
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http://www.theotaku.com/worlds/alishasworld/?type_id=&media=
&format=&page=2
CREDITS CON.
Figurative Language
 http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-ofimagery.html
 http://examples.yourdictionary.com/alliterationexamples.html
 http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-ofpersonification.html