Specials (The Uglies) Literary Elements

science fiction

fictional future, Place names: New Pretty Town, Rusty Ruins, Diego (New Smoke)

Narrator: omniscient

Point of view: third person

Tone: indirect, impartial

Mood: exciting, threatening

Protagonist: Tally Youngblood, Antagonist: Special Circumstances, Dr. Cable

Shay and Tally, who are part of a new Special Circumstance group called Cutters, make a plan to attack the Armory of New Pretty Town and make it seem like Zane was the one who did so he can make his way to the New Smoke and later be captured by Special Circumstances and transformed into a Special.

Dr. Cable and Special Circumstance attack the town Diego, Tally breaks free from the mind-control of her Special operation with Zane's death. Tally decides to go after Dr. Cable and injects the cure into her, leading to Dr. Cable setting Tally free at the end.

"And she had been made to save the world."-
Tally was indeed made to save the world, aside from the Special egotistic rhetoric, and at the end when she is the last Special standing she proclaims herself to protect the nature and essentially the world.

"The uglies felt soft and unsubstantial against her, like stuffed toys come to life, boisterous but unthreatening."-The power of uglies is underestimated because, short time after this statement, Shay and the rest of the Cutters are completely brought to the ground by a few uglies from the Smoke, David being one of them.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.
-Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching

Imagery of Diego as a town full of different looking people, where Tally's scary-looking face loses its power.

"What is it that you're not feeling, that you have to do that?"

N/A

Specials, Cutters...

"The crumbly walked back to where he'd started, but the camera stayed where it was, no longer interested in him."