(SPOILERS)Uglies Reading Response- How is the main character realistic?

   
           In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the main character Tally lives in a world where you are considered an "ugly" until your sixteenth birthday where you undergo a operation that turns you into a beautiful "pretty". When you transform into a "pretty", you move to Pretty town which is a high-tech paradise where all you do is party and have a great time. Tally is about to turn sixteen until she meets a friend named Shay who has a different opinion about "Pretties" and "Uglies". She doesn't agree on how everyone is born to believe that they are ugly and they have to go through a several week long operation to become pretty. Shay wants to stay "Ugly", and tells Tally about a secret city in the Rustic Ruins that the city doesn't know about. Then Shay ends up running away, and "SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES" (authorities that control the city) find Tally and give her the worst choice possible. To find Tally and turn her in, or never turn pretty ever. Because of what she is brought up to believe, it is a very hard decision.
              The author Scott Westerfeld writes the character in a very realistic (believable) way. I feel like it sends off a message of how Tally would choose being pretty over her friend and how it states that in today's world, people will do anything to become pretty. (More on last blog).
          Scott lets us into her shoes. When Tally was thinking about when to press the button that she received from "SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES" to push when she got to the "Smoke" (the secret city), I really pitied her. At first she was just thinking about herself, and if she just got over with this, Tally would be able to go back to her normal life and become pretty, and be reunited with her old friends in Pretty town. However, as she spent more and more time at the Smoke, Tally realized how if she pressed the button, it would jeopardize and ruin the lives of all these people in the Smoke. And David, the boy who was born in the Smoke by his parents, got into a romantic relationship with Tally the night before she accidently set the button off. This made Tally feel even more bad. She would be ripping David of the only life that he ever knew. Scott really did make the character realistic. Humans have feelings, and most people wouldn't kill hundreds of people and take their whole lives away just to become pretty. (Except people not in their right mind.)
          The way the author Scott Westerfeld made the character so realistic got me thinking of how I would react to that situation. I think that I would've betrayed Shay, I admit it. Humans are selfish, and I believe if I was in this situation I would act the same way as Tally. Of course, I wouldn't of let David kiss me. If I knew that Shay liked him, I wouldn't steal David away from her. That is one way I would've acted differently than Tally. I love this book very much!