
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Westerfeld, Scott (2011-05-03), Uglies, Simon and Schuster, Retrieved on 2014-12-03Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: juvenile fiction Memes
03 DEC 2014
The Pretties
There was a certain kind of beauty, a prettiness that everyone could see. Big eyes and
full lips like a kid’s; smooth, clear skin; symmetrical features; and a thousand other
little clues. Somewhere in the backs of their minds, people were always looking for
these markers. No one could help seeing them, no matter how they were brought up. A
million years of evolution had made it part of the human brain.
The big eyes and lips said: I’m young and vulnerable, I can’t hurt you, and you want...A society that uses plastic surgery to turn everyone into a beautiful average as a means of reducing conflict.