Characters
Events
Conflicts
Text Structures
Other
100
Tally's tough and persistent personality is fully delineated by the author.
What is a round character?
100
Tally is fascinated by the idea of becoming pretty and can't wait to join her friend, Peris, in New Pretty Town in the beginning of the book.
What is the exposition?
100
Shay gets upset with Tally once she realizes David likes Tally and not her.
What is individual vs. individual?
100
Maddy needs a test subject for her cure, but Shay refuses, so Tally offers up herself.
What is problem/solution?
100
The Smoke, New Pretty Town, and the Ruins
What is setting?
200
Astrix's personality goes undeveloped by the choice of the author.
What is a flat character?
200
Tally befriends Shay, and soon after, Shay runs away before being forced into undergoing the pretty operation. Tally refuses to go with her and is then blackmailed by authorities into finding her friend and turning her into them; thus starting the main conflict.
What is the initiating event?
200
"Even on the narrow path, she was constantly shoving past branches and twigs, tripping over roots and rocks."
What is individual vs. nature?
200
Special Circumstances sets the Smoke on fire to scare people and make them come out of the buildings, so the runaways get caught and everything is burned down.
What is cause-and-effect?
200
"Everything gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?"
What is foreshadowing?
300
Dr. Cable blackmails Tally into giving her the whereabouts of her runaway friend, Shay.
What is the antagonist?
300
Tally goes along with the authorities' plan, but once she reaches the Smoke, a city where runaways live and prosper, she finds she likes it there and doesn't want to give away its location. Tally attempts to destroy the tracker provided to her by the authorities, but instead sets it off, giving away the Smoke's location.
What is the rising action?
300
Tally struggles with the decision on whether or not she should tell David about her accidental betrayal.
What is individual vs. self?
300
Shay wanted to run away and had no interest in becoming pretty, while Tally was happy where she was and wanted badly to become pretty.
What is compare/contrast?
300
"The scar that they had made together was wrong."
What is flashback?
400
Tally rebels against Special Circumstances so she can benefit those in the cities.
What is the protagonist?
400
Special Circumstances arrives after finding the Smoke's location, and sets everything on fire. They capture almost all the runaways, but Tally and forever resident of the Smoke, David, manage to get away.
What is the climax?
400
Tally doesn't agree that everyone should have the pretty operation and look the same, like the rest of her city does.
What is individual vs. society?
400
First, Tally began her life of crime by sneaking into New Pretty Town. Then, she began to sneak out to the ruins with Shay.
What is chronological o sequential?
400
"At first there was a sound like a roaring wind her dreams."
What is a simile?
500
Shay runs away so as to avoid becoming pretty, but once she is forced into becoming pretty, she loves her new lifestyle.
What is a dynamic character?
500
Tally and David break into Special Circumstances headquarters and rescue many of the runaways, but Shay has already been turned pretty. After the successful rescue, David's mom, Maddy, comes up with a cure for pretties, but Shay refuses to test the cure out for Maddy; leading to the resolution.
What is the falling action?
500
"It was the flying machine, its thundering beat now obvious above the river as the machine's windstorm stirred the fire o a new intensity."
What is individual vs. technology?
500
"Garbo Mansion was fat, bright, and loud."
What is concept/definition?
500
"The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit."
What is a metaphor?
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