Beauty does not exist in sameness, but in difference. What is the point of being pretty if you look and think the same as everyone else? No two people are alike, and it's the ones that stray out of the crowd, which shape this world. Could you possibly imagine a spider with five legs instead of eight? Could you ever imagine an elephant without a trunk, or a giraffe being a short stubby animal? How would you feel if you were the same as everyone else? Same level of outer attractiveness, and inner identity - with no special skills that define you as a unique and independent being. Scott Westerfield's Uglies determines the power our inner beauty and imperfections have over the sameness that comes with perfection. Our inner beauty and diversity gives us the identity, the need to compare yourself to someone more beautiful and the inspiration, which is all what keeps you pretty. Imagine being known for looking just like everyone else, instead of what you really are deep down inside, and who you really could be. In the Uglies, Shay states, "It's not me, it's some committee's ideas of me" (Uglies, pg 45). When everyone's is "perfect," no one is themselves, but what everyone else wants them to be. Our imperfections, diversity and differences give us the identity to be who we really are. In the Uglies, Pretties have lost all of their creativity, beliefs, talents and emotions. However, in a society so driven by "perfection," even Uglies are taught since the day they are born, that all there really is to life is to be beautiful. However, is a perfect face really what makes you beautiful? What about what's on the inside? Our imperfections give us different talents. A person could be good at sports such as soccer, while another could be driven in academics, music or arts. There are so many talents people could have, but when everyone looks the same, they don't care. If everyone was beautiful, they wouldn't care about excelling in their talents. Pretties have lost the ability to be unique, as their lives revolve around being beautiful, parties, dressing up and drinking. They have lost the ability to think for themselves and have lost their own personality that came with the brain lesions from the operation, after all, "Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same" (Uglies, pg 273). At the end of the Uglies, Shay turned Pretty and said "I like the way I look. I'm happier in this body" (Uglies, pg 408). This shows how driven people can be to look beautiful on the outside. All of Shay's beliefs and resistance were thrown out to the garbage. "In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly" (Uglies, cover page). Today, you see girls everywhere putting on loads of makeup and straightening or curling their hair everyday. They don't pay attention to school, but want to be "beautiful" and popular. They think that to be accepted in our society, they have to change themselves to someone they are not. Everyday we see twins, but even they