Tally and her friends have just recently been turned into Specials, the things they used to loath when they were Uglies then Pretties. They go to an Uglies party where they plan on crashing it to find people who are wanted for rebelling against the government. Throughout this scene, Tally is thinking about how great it is now that she has been turned into a special when the music from the party interrupts her thoughts. She says, "Uglies were always noisy," (6). This is a big idea even though it is an understated quote. Tally now completely distances herself from when she used to be an Ugly. This is important because the whole first book of the series is about her fighting to stay and Ugly and not be turned into a Pretty. Her entire point of view has been altered.
Shay and Tally sneak into an old armory to steal weapons. Someone spots them there and Shay picks up a bottle amoung the racks of deadly weapons and throws it to the ground were it shatters. A silvery liquid seeps and and beins to spread and eat everything it touches. Shay says it is "hunger, in nano form. It eats pretty much everything, and makes more of itself." (111). This is a great moment because of the tension. Our protagonists are in major peril with no way out so readers worry about what will happen.
Before Shay releases the liquid, Tally finds a biowarfar filter mask. It is revealed that "the whole Rusty culture had been undone by one artificial oil-eating bacterium" (102). This is very important because the Rusty culture is supposed to represent our time now, since this book is in the future. The author alludes to what he predicts our downfall will be: something of our own makeing, for our own greed.
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