So, for the first part of the book, all we see are the Pretties and Uglies. Then, on the day of Tally's surgery, she was told there was a problem and she was introduced to the Specials. They are pretty but kind of pretty in a scary way. On page 104, Tally is talking about the Specials and her encounter with Dr. Cable from Special Circumstances. "The woman was a cruel pretty. Her nose was aquiline, her teeth sharp, her eyes a nonreflective gray. Her voice had the same slow, neutral cadence as a bedtime book. But it hardly made Tally sleepy. An edge was hidden in the voice, like a piece of metal slowly marking glass." The Specials are people that rarely ever interact with the Pretties or Uglies. They are the people that are just talked about, and a lot of people consider them more of a myth. They are blamed when things out of the ordinary happen. Peris comes to visit Tally after everyone finds out about her little visit with the Specials. He says, "Specials are like gremlins; you blame them when anything weird happens. Some people think they're totally bogus, and no one I know has actually seen a Special."
I am trying to figure out what group of people the Specials represent in our culture. The Pretties represent the people obsessed with beauty and perfection and will sacrifice anything to be considered pretty by everyone, where the Uglies represent the people who do not care what others believe and are willing to stand up for themselves and things that truly matter. The Uglies are the outsiders, the plain ole normal people that are not considered special to many people but value the beauty on in the inside per say. So are the specials people that care about their appearance but also prioritize their lives and are not obsessed with perfection and beauty?
I believe the specials are just the backbone of society. They are like the government persay. They make sure everything thats suppose to happen does actually happen and things that are not of the norm are diminished. So Specials can't be at the same level as everyone else. They can not be lower than Uglies but they can not be the same as the Pretties.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the comment above. I almost feel like the Specials are the secret part of our government that really NOBODY is so sure about. I still do believe that they are obsessed with perfection and beauty though, because that is what they hold over Tally's head to force her to do something.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with your representations of whose who in society from the categories of Pretties, Uglies, and possibly Specials. Being Uglies is just part of the precess in this society to becoming pretty. Mostly everyone is obsessed with being pretty, which is why they get the surgery. Pretties have everything they could want so they don't obsess over being pretty because they already are. Our society does not fit any of these stigmas.
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