A Big Mistake

       

Summary 

           
In the few Chapters I had read after David told Tally about her parents and his childhood in the Smoke,Tally intended to tell the truth to her friend Shay. However, Shay start to talk and said to Tally that she knew what was happening and who gave her the necklace she was wearing. What Shay thought was that the heart necklace was from someone really important for Tally and that she felt guilty because she told that someone the secret between both that was the Smoke. Part of what Shay thought about the necklace was true except that the "someone" was not a guy it was Dr.Cable that send her there as a spy. After talking Tally felt even more guilty and sorry because she wasn´t there to stay forever she was there so Special Circumstances can find the Smoke. At the next day more events happen that made Tally feel horrible. First David gave Tally gloves he made when he was younger meaning that he was falling in love with Tally and this was a problem because Shay liked David.  When Shay saw that Tally received a gift from the person she love both talked and Shay told Tally to tell David that she already have someone and to show him the heart necklace so in the way David would know she was not interested in him. At night Tally was eating dinner alone until David appeared and tell her he needed to talk with her, so both went to the forest apart of the Smoke and while talking Tally began to have a feeling of love towards him. Tally decided to tell him what she promised to Shay about the necklace and that Shay was in love with him but David did not care and said to Tally that he was in love with her and both kissed. Then David said to her that he wanted Tally to met his parents. It was late at night but they went to David´s parents house. In this visit they talk about many things but the topic that amazed Tally was about a secret that only they knew about. About a discovery they did before escaping from the city. Was about how turning pretty also changed your way of thinking. When someone had the operation they also were modified their brains that only few doctors knew about because they were responsible of the changes. In the brains from the pretties David´s parents discovered lesions which were a bunch of cells that don´t looked right, like cancer. In that way pretties become with an equal mind with equal thoughts and opinions. The lesions were given just to the pretties who didn´t have a job in which they have to take risk. Tally was surprised and she didn´t want to return, she didn´t want Special Circumstances destroyed the Smoke so when David and Tally said goodbye and leave the house, Tally throw the necklace into the fire, without knowing the necklace was programmed to send signals when it was destroyed. So when she woke up Specials Circumstances arrive but luckily she escape after talking with Dr.Cable and ran to a mountain where she found David. 


Quotes

"Now riding on her knees, gripping the board with both hands, Tally twisted into the next turn, dropping to skim just above the cracked dirt of the dry creek bed. She heard the whine of the hovercars steadily build"(Westerfels 317). 

Tally is a teenager that is not afraid of anything. She is brave and intelligent and  was able to escape from the hovercars and the Special that was watching her when she escape in the hover board. Risking her life since she didn´t wear shoes and was not wearing the crashing bracelets that held her with the hover-board. If she do a wrong move then she can fall down and break her neck. 


David spoke up. "The lesions aren't an accident, Tally. They´re part of the operation, just like all the bone sculpting and skin scraping. Is part of the way being pretty change you"(Westerfeld 265).

The city in which Tally lived her entire live has many secrets that are hide to most of the people except Special Circumstances. The lesions in people head makes them be in agreement with what the authorities does and imposes and think the same way all, like being pretty is everything they need. The society in the story is being manipulated and more when they have the operation and the lesions are implemented in their heads. I think is a way to prevent freedom of speech since they think the same no one has its own opinion. Also with the lesions they make people serious and correct for example, Peris he was funny, criticize pretties and have fun escaping with Tally even though they could get in trouble but after the operation his way of thinking change. I think this city is not so different from The Rusties (our society today) because they are also lying people and hiding the truth and treating them as puppets. They also brainwash people minds.  

Final Thoughts

I am really liking this book because has a lot of action as also romance that I really like from a story. I think David is so cute and nice and I like the way he talk to Tally. I hope that when Tally decide to tell him the truth that she at first get to the Smoke as a SPY David don´t get mad for a long time with her. Well I think is understandable if he gets mad but I hope he understands.