Post-it #3

I am still reading  Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (which I will be finishing this weekend).
   In my book, justice is used, and shown. "Shay rolled herself over. Her face was red, her lips puffy and bleeding. She spat, saliva trailing from her mouth to a blood-red glob on the dusty ground. 'Croy,' she managed with a thick tongue. Then her eyes fell on Tally. 'You!' 'Uh, Shay...,' Croy began. 'You did this!' Her whole body writhed like a snake in its death throes. 'Stealing my boyfriend wasn't enough? You had to betray the whole Smoke?' Tally closed her eyes and shook her head. It couldn't be true. She had destroyed the pendant. The fire had consumed it." (Westerfeld, Uglies 301).
   In the book, at this part, Tally (the main character) 
has been discovered-in a way-by her friend, Shay. Tally came to the Smoke initially as a spy for the people of the Special
Circumstances, and the said pendant, was given to her with a
 tracker in it, so when she got to the Smoke she could activate it and the people from Special Circumstances would come and take the "Smokies" back to their cities to become pretty. As Tally got used to the life of the Smoke though, she decided she didn't want to turn the Smoke in, so she stayed and didn't activate the pendant, and she threw it in a fire in front of David, (Shay's 'boyfriend') to prove to him that what the pendant meant, (she told him and everyone else in the Smoke that it was from someone back home who she liked and who liked her) didn't mean anything to her anymore. When she threw it in the fire, it activated and the people from Special Circumstances came within a few hours to get all of the uglies. So this is how justice is used. Tally got what she deserved which was, her world-that she now loved at the Smoke-taken away from her because she only went there for selfish reasons, to become pretty, after turning in all the 'Smokies', even her friends. Also, she lost Shay as a friend because she stole David from her AND she turned the Smoke in to the Special Circumstances, even though she hadn't realized it. Lastly, in a way her whole world was taken from her (the Smoke) like what she was so willing to do just weeks before, to everyone else who was living in the Smoke.




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