It is very inspiring when someone who is considered extremely attractive realizes that everyone is beautiful. In Uglies, this may be considered the greatest scandal of all, but it shouldn’t matter what people think of each other as long as they look past the obvious appearance.
“Tally looked into his eyes and saw that his face was glowing again—touching her in that pretty way she’d felt before. ‘That’s why you’re beautiful, Tally.’ The words made her dizzy for a moment, like the falling feeling of looking into a new pretty’s eyes.” (Westerfeld, pg. 276).
I think that although Tally and the rest of her society are influenced by the way they look; the new pretty David knows what real beauty is rather than the false Pretties that the surgeons create.
I think that the purpose of this passage was to show that not everyone will have the same views about real beauty. There are always those few individuals who are often despised because of their morals, morals that are actually higher than most of our values. The overall effect that this has is that it makes us think about our own morals and what we perceive as beautiful, and in return, this may prompt us to change our mindset.
This future depiction gives us some hope in the present because people like David do exist, who aren’t superficial and ignorant in their views. They teach us that we can all be accepted by society if we can look past this obsession with beauty.
Languages and images help us to realize what we are doing to ourselves because when we look at images of real people of every background, race or religion, the universal truth is that we are all beautiful despite society’s misguided views.
In my last blog when I mentioned the drastic measures we take to feel attractive, it should not become a priority to change our natural appearance because of what others think.
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