Finally, the big day for Tally had come. It was the
day of her operation to become a Pretty. She was waiting for the car to
pic her up to take her to the hospital where she would have her operation. When
she got to the hospital, she had to wait some hours until a man came up to her
and told that there was a problem with her operation and that she had to come
with him. She got inside a car with the man and he took her to a building and
he took Tally to a room where was a women. She introduced herself to Tally. Her
name was Dr. Cable. She and Tally talked about Shay. Dr. Cable asked Tally if
she knew where Shay was and she told her that she didn’t and she kept the note
that Shay gave her a secret. Then, Dr. Cable promised Tally that until she
doesn’t help them find Shay, she would never become a Pretty. This broke Tally’s heart because all she wanted was to become a Pretty.
When she got back
to Uglyville to her room, she saw that everything was gone. Her bed, furniture,
pictures and wallscreen, everything was recycled. Then she saw her parents and
Peris that went to comfort her and make her fell better. They convince her to
go and talk to Dr. Cable again and tell her that Shay left a note. When she talked to Dr. Cable she took a survival kit and packed it with dehydrate food for 4 weeks and
gave Tally a necklace with a little heart in it. She showed her that it opened
and told her that it will only respond to her eye-print and that she has to
activate it when she got to smoke. Dr. Cable was expecting Tally to go to Smoke
on her own. After Dr. Cable show Tally herself in a mirror, Tally
accepted to go because she didn't wanted to be ugly the rest of her life.
She
left that day at midnight. She only took her survival kit, the hoverboard and
the heart necklace that Dr. Cable gave her. When she got to the Rusty Ruins she
looked for the coaster that Shay talked about tin the note she gave Tally.
Tally thought that it was the roller coaster that had a gap in it but she was
wrong because the note also said that it was flat and long so she continued
looking. She found something that looked like a roller coaster but it was long
and flat. It didn’t made any sense for Tally because she thought that why
anyone would want a roller coaster that is flat if the turns and climbs are the
best parts. She started following it. Later in the night she found a few roller
coaster cars and remembered that the Rusty Ruins needed to trade with other
towns and that they might used those cars to transport form town to town.
The sky started to get lighter and lighter and then she got to the sea. She was crossing a
bridge when she realized that it didn’t went all the way to the other side and
that in the river wasn’t enough metal to support her so she will fall to the
ocean. She tried to jump to get to the other side of the bridge but she
couldn’t. Then one of the metal detectors on her hoverboard began to flicker
and Tally began tot go up again. When she got to a solid ground again, she got
hungry so she decided to look for some dehydrated food in her bag. She found a
packet of food that said “SpagBol”. She didn’t knew what that meant but when
she opened and dropped it into the purifier, it beamed spaghetti Bolognese.
That meal was the best one she has gotten in a long time ago. She finished
eating and she had to go to a second bridge that also had a gap. It was too
wide to jump and hiking around it would waist a lot of time but the drop wasn’t
as deep as the fist one but still it was deadly. She was too tired to think of
a solution and her hoverboard was going out of power now.
She unfolded her
hoverboard to leave it to recharge itself with the sun and she took out her sleeping
bag to get some sleep too but she couldn’t. She thought that by eating a little
she might be able to get asleep faster. She took out the packets of food one by
one but everyone said SpagBol. She counted forty-one packets of SpagBol and a
few minutes later she felt a sleep. When she got up, she was ready to go except
that her hoverboard was wet. She tried to dry it with her jacket but there was
too much water and not enough jacket to clean it up. Meanwhile her hoverboard
dried, she decided to eat a SpagBol. She didn’t had enough water in her
purifier so she tried to fill it with the water form her jacket but it only
fill it up the half so she had to eat a dense, over spiced spaghetti that
required a lot of chewing. When she finished she was ready to go. According to
Shay’s letter she had to make the worst mistake so she thought that she should
get down to the river and then hike up. She threw herself to the cliff and
thought that the stonewalls would have some metal in them but she was wrong.
She thought that she would die until the hoverboard got to the river and stood
still above the water.
Then she remembered Shays letter that said that “four
days later take the side you despise.” So she started her way again. She had
some sunburns and she now hated the SpagBol. On the third day up the river,
Tally decided to take a bath. Tally got out the river because she heard that
something was coming. She continued her journey up the river until the river
divided into two. She had to choose one. She chose the smaller river branch,
the one in the right because she remembered that Shay didn’t liked her right
side of her face. When the sun raised she saw many white flowers and she loved them but she was very tired so she felt asleep.
When she
woke up there was a fire near her so she had to go. She went around a hill and
looked for her hoverboard and the river. When she found them, she saw a flying
machine that passed just above her and made her fall into the river. She tried
to go up to her hoverboard when she saw that the machine had landed and that
people where coming in her way. They helped Tally to get to shore. She saw the
eyes of the man that was helping her and they where blue bug eyes, just what
she had to look for in Shay’s letter. When he took of his mask, Tally could see
that he was a Pretty. They helped her and took her in their flying machine.
They called themselves rangers. They knew that Tally was going to Smoke so they
left her in the usual spot where they think that Smoke is near because Smoke’s
location is a big secret.
When they got there, Tally got down and thanked them
and she started looking for something that looked like a bald head according to
Shay’s note. She found a hill that looked just like that but she had to wait
until the sunrise for someone to go and look for her. She started thinking that
she hoped that her necklace would be ruined because of the water but the only
way to go home and become a Pretty was by sending the message when she got to
Smoke and betray her friend. The next
day the smokies what to find her. Shay was one of them. The famous David was
there too. They took Tally to Smoke, her new home.
Tally had always thought of the city as huge, a whole world in itself, but the scale of everything out here was so much grander. And so beautiful. (152-153)
Tally in this part of the book have being out of the city for one day and she starts to see that there is a lot more than Uglyville and Pretty town. When you go out of your comfort zone you can learn, see and discover so many new things that you might like. Then you will realised of how many stuff you were missing because you didn't go out of the comfort zone. For example, Tally would never see the white flowers that she liked so much or met the rangers from another Pretty Town. Even though Tally was sent to Smoke for bad purposes, there is a good part of all of this, she had the chance to see and experience new things that she wouldn't if she wasn't sent there.
This thing was a roller coaster, but long and flat...What fun was a roller coaster without any turns or climbs? (145)
I am really enjoying reading this book. I predict that Tally would be able to send the message to Dr. Cable but first she thought about it very much but in the end she does it. Then she will get caught and they will expels her out of Smoke and she would be left alone again in middle of the wild and then Dr. Cable will get to Smoke and destroy everything and take everyone to Uglyville except for Tally because she was out in the wild and she has to find a way back to Uglyville.
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