However, things don’t go so smoothly for Tally.
Missing Peris, Tally decides to sneak into the Pretties' beautiful city across the river.
Although she manages to see Peris, Tally isn’t happy with what she discovers.
To Tally’s surprise, Shay isn’t interested in the Pretty surgery.
Despite their commonalities,humans couldn’t resist forming nations, factions, and communities predicated on their differences.
To combat this, the Transformation was developed.
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Allegedly, conformity breeds happiness and peace.
Allegedly, conformity breeds happiness and peace.
Tally frequently uses a program to make Morphos, a rendering of what she plans to look like post-surgery.
In a futuristic society where everyone undergoes compulsory cosmetic surgery at 16 to become “pretty,” Tally eagerly awaits her transformation. However, when her friend goes missing, she embarks on a journey that challenges her beliefs about beauty, conformity, and rebellion, ultimately questioning the foundations of their world.
For example, Tally wants to select her hair and eye color.
Tally agrees to infiltrate David’s group, but what she discovers is much different from what Cable suggested.
The brain lesions make those who have undergone the Transformation unable to care or think.
While Maddy sat on the Morphological Standards Committee, Az dedicated his time to making the surgeries safer.
In a twist,Az reveals that the surgery causes a pattern of brain lesions to form.
Essentially, the brain lesions make those who have undergone the Transformation unable to care or think.
Instead, they’re “sedated into a false sense of happiness.”
In its earliest iterations, the operation resulted in several deaths a year.
However, seizures and brain damage were not out of the question either.
Since receiving the cure themselves,Maddy and Az have spent 20 years trying to replicate the formula.
Unfortunately, the cure isn’t complete.
Az fears that testing it on humans could lead to seizures, permanent brain damage, and death.
While that makes completing the cure challenging, the serum is the only weapon against Cable’s schemes inUglies.
