Infiltrator

In the previous chapter Tally talked with Dr.Cable about not having her surgery unless she chose to find Shay and tell Special Circumstances all of the things Shay told her to keep as a secret. After having this conversation with Dr.Cable Tally returned to her room at Uglyville ashamed of returning and being watched by all of the uglies around. She closed her door and cried without knowing what to do and what to chose. Either keeping Shays secret and staying ugly forever or saying everything she knows about David and the Smoke and have the operation. Later her parents enter to Tally´s  room  and comfort her. Also they persuade her and recommended Tally to tell everything about Shay to Dr.Cable unless she wanted to stay ugly for the rest of her life. However, Tally couldn´t betrayed her friend because they made a promised that was to keep everything as a secret. At night Tally went hoverboarding as usually and when she returned to her room Peris, her best friend, was waiting for her. They talked and Peris said to Tally that they also made a promise before Tally met Shay. The promise between Peris and Tally was that she was not going to get in trouble until having her surgery. In that moment Tally decided to say everything to Dr.Cable. When she went to met Dr. Cable she was told to leave the city and found where the Smoke was. In other words she was told to go there as an infiltrator and for this Dr.Cable gave her a necklace with a heart that was like a GPS that was activated just when Tally open her eye in the middle of the heart so her eye can be scanned. Also she was told that nobody should know about this plan, it was just a secret between Special Circumstances and Tally (For Tally this was unexpected since Dr. Cable at first said that for her to turn pretty the only thing she had to do was telling everything she knows about where was Shay, not going to The Smoke as an SPY). On her journey Tally didn´t have too much trouble and she understand all of the directions Shay left in the note that was written in secret code in case she decided to escape and don´t have the surgery which was not the case. Tally´s major problem was when she was almost arriving but she didn´t understand what "Red-eyed bugs" meant and since she was tired she decided to hide and sleep in the field full of white orchids. While sleeping she smelled something burning and heard the sound of fire. When she woke up the field was on fire. In that moment she stand up and tried to find the river. In her way to the water she saw once again a helicopter with people inside. They were the responsible of the fire. The people inside saw Tally and landed the helicopter on the ground and take her inside. All of them were wearing bug masks so Tally realized that was what Shay meant with "Red-eyed bug". But that was not all, she was surprised because when they take out their masks all of them were pretties from a city Tally never had heard before. They were called the "Rangers" and they carry her near to were the Smokies (that´s how the people at Smoke Valley are called)usually receive someone new since nobody know were Smoke Valley was located except for the uglies who run away. After waiting for other uglies to take her with them she saw in the mountain Shay with other people. Tally was happy to see her but she also feel sorry and bad because she was about to betrayed Shay and the others. However, she was confident of doing it. But this change when she heard the story of David, Shay´s friend, because he was born there he was not a run away like most of the uglies at Smoke, instead his parents were doctors who run away and have David in this valley. So the valley was his house.

     

Revealing Quotes

"The flying machine had been just like what Tally imagined when her teachers had described Rusty contraptions: a portable tornado crashing along, destroying everything in its path. Tally had read about aircraft that shattered windows as they flew past"(Westerfeld 166). 

Now I understand who are the Rusties. When someone refers to the Rusties they mean the old society in which we are living now. With social and environmental issues. To end these problems someone has created a new way of administration in which not issues take place and people don´t live in poverty. However, this new regime in which Tally lives is not so awesome as it sounds. With the quote we can see that society in the story is given just one perspective of the aircrafts. So they are basically being lied. They are taught that all of the aircrafts destroyed the surroundings and shattered windows and not that they help mobilizing people more quickly. In this new administration people in charge don´t one someone to break with it and turned society as before without they lies.

"Tally´s eyes widened as Shay turned the pages, pointing and giggling. She´d never seen so many wildly different faces before. Mouths and eyes and noses of every imaginable shape, all combined insanely on people of every age. And the bodies. Some were grotesquely fat, or weirdly over muscled, or uncomfortably thin, and almost all of them had wrong, ugly proportions. But instead of being ashamed of their deformeties, the people were laughing and kissing and posing, as if all the pictures had been taken at some huge party"(Westerfeld 198).  

When I read this quote I was surprised because for me most of the people in the magazines are pretty and beautiful but for Tally they are all ugly and insane. So I think that is funny because neither the most beautiful person is perfect instead is ugly. In this world what the authorities have created is a place where people are only confident when they are pretty and when they are ugly they just feel hatred towards their selves like Tally. She is going to betrayed her friend just because she doesn´t want to be "ugly" forever. I also start to think about how Tally looks like in this book however since everyone is ugly is difficult to imagine their faces because for me ugly is not the same as Tally thinks because she thinks everyone in the world is awful until the surgery and I think that everyone is beautiful with their own face features and bodies.

Final Thoughts

The chapters I had read so far become more and more interesting and Tally has to be intelligent and take good decisions. The decision she needs to make is the one of activating the necklace so Dr.Cable can trace her location. But now she is struggle with what to do because she don´t want something happening that might made David and Shay disappointed. For the next chapters I predict she is not going to activate the necklace and she would begging to change her thinking about the world and she would stay at the Smoke with her friends.