Molly Ransone Post 15 Outside reading

(#15) Outside Reading: The Uglies

I just recently finished a book called Uglies, written by Scott Westerfeld, and it reminded me of the Orual from Till We Have Faces. In Uglies there is a world full of two types of people. People are either pretty or uglies. When you become sixteen you are allowed to undergo plastic surgery to become a pretty or you can remain how you look and live with all the uglies. The main character Tally struggles over if she wants to remain the same or if she will become pretty. After I finished reading this book I thought of Orual. Throughout Till We Have Faces, Orual is constantly reminded of how ugly she is. Orual’s father the King constantly reminds her that she is not attractive. Orual eventually hides her face from everyone and wears a veil to cover her ugliness. If Orual was given the chance to undergo plastic surgery to turn into a pretty I wonder if she would do it. I believe that Orual’s veil became a source of power for her when she became Queen. The veil made her mysterious, which I believe made others afraid of her. If Orual lost the veil and became a pretty I wonder if she would be as powerful of a Queen? If Orual was turned into a pretty I bet she would have been married off and her husband would have ruled. I really liked both of these books and I think it would be very interesting to see how different Orual would have been if she had been pretty!