The Uglies – Question Set #1

Someone who is normal and has not had the operation yet to be \"pretty\"; someone before the age of 16. They were littlies when they lived with their parents, then at the age of 12 they moved to Uglyville to live in the dorms for 4 years in preparation for the operation.

Someone who has had the operation to make them beautiful at age 16. The pretties seem to have a better life and are always happy so almost everyone wants to be like them. The ones that have just had their operation are called New Pretties, then Middle Pretties when they get older.

It's kind of like a flying skateboard that works over a metal grid and with magnets; used for transportation. They run because of magnetism and they are charged by solar power (the sun). There is a metal grid underneath the city so the hoverboards work all over. Outside the city, at the Rusty Ruins and beyond you have to careful that there is metal underneath you or you will crash.

She had to (1) trick the house minder into thinking she was still in bed; (2) go across the old bridge who couldn't report her and (3) go through the pleasure garden.

He was surprised to see her. He thought she should have waited until she was \"pretty\" to come see him. The operation had changed his personallity.

Shay taught Tally to ride a hoverboard.

They have the same birthday.

Shay is skinny; Tally is squint; The nicknames are the reasons they are ugly. They represent their imperfections.

They are images made from their faces which are altered to show what they would look like \"pretty\".

Shay doesn't want to become a \"pretty\" so she doesn't need or want to imagine what she would look like.

Being assymmetrical is part of being \"ugly\". The \"pretties\" always have symmetrical faces. It means that both sides of their faces are the same.

She thinks it's fun to imagine what she will look like as a \"pretty\". She likes to do it.

She doesn't think there is anything wrong with being normal. She thinks morphing makes people think they have to be perfect.

Tally said that everyone being \"pretty\" means that no one is different from anyone else so it puts everyone on the same level. Otherwise people would be judged based on their appearance.

Shay wants to go to the Rusty Ruins at night.

On a hoverboard they had tricked out so it wouldn't set off the warnings when they traveled past the boundary.

They work by magnetism so they need some type of metal beneath them to allow them to fly.

The belly sensor provides a wireless link from the hoverboard to the person to detect the rider's center of gravity so that the board can better adjust itself to the rider's height and weight for the best riding.