But she'd never realized that a few kilometers upstream from the dam, the stately band of silver became a snarling monster. So that's a clear comparison between the city dammed and controlled and what's outside the city undammed and wild.
Or look at the trees, which are very, well, wild, in the wilderness:. The forest to either side was a black void full of wild and ancient trees, nothing like the generic carbon-dioxide suckers that decorated the city. You just know that those "carbon-dioxide suckers" inside the city have to be carefully managed.
They might even be genetically engineered like the white tiger orchids see "Symbols" for more about those beasts. While the wild trees are "wild and ancient," a significant part of nature and history, the managed trees just "decorate. Or let's put it this way: the city is very safe—firecrackers that don't burn; jackets that protect people from falling, and so on.
City kids, "spend their whole lives in a bubble" By contrast, Tally comes to realize that the wilderness is "Dangerous or beautiful. Or both" That danger and intensity in the wilderness is both exciting but dangerous for Tally: "Life was much more intense than in the city.
She bathed in a river so cold that she had to jump in screaming, and she ate food pulled from the fire hot enough to burn her tongue, which city food never did" And our last big difference is the way each setting deals with stuff. As Tally remarks when she needs a new sleeping bag, in the Smoke, you need to pay for stuff. This is not at all what it's like in the city. When Tally comes to the Smoke, Shay notes that, "In the Smoke, things don't just come out of the wall" In the city, no one has to save up to buy their hoverboards.
But in the Smoke, people save and trade:. By now, Tally understood that nothing in the Smoke ever lost its value. It seemed like weeks since she and David had arrived there. A few hours of conversation had changed her world. Maddy and Az stood, and David helped Tally up from the chair. She said good-bye to them in a daze, flinching inside when she recognized the expression in their old and ugly faces: They feltsorry for her. Ninety-nine percent of humanity had had something done to their brains, and only a few people in the world knew exactly what.
Tally and David were in the darkness, climbing the ridge back toward the Smoke, the sky full of stars now that the moon had set. Tally shivered, realizing how close she had come so many times. And if she had, the Specials would have arrived within hours. And what if we told everyone what we suspect? And eventually, the cities would find out what we were saying, and would do everything in their power to hunt us down.
They already are,Tally said to herself. She wanted to tell David what they were up to, but how? Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers.
Tally wondered how long it was until dawn. She flinched at the thought. I think my parents were impressed. You understood immediately what this all means. You can see the world clearly, even if you did grow up spoiled. She laughed, shaking her head clear. She knew how callused his fingertips were, as hard and rough as wood. But somehow their caress felt soft and tentative. She looked away. They both stood silent, their mouths gaping. The question had popped out of Tally before she could think.
How had she uttered something so horrible? Fattie, Pig-Eyes, Boney, Zits, Freak — all the names uglies called one another, eagerly and without reserve. But equally, without exception, so that no one felt shut out by some irrelevant mischance of birth. And no one was considered to be even remotely beautiful, privileged because of a random twist in their genes. You react to symmetry, skin tone, the shape of my eyes. He shrugged in defeat, the anger draining from his voice.
She shook away the electric feeling his fingers left behind. Imperfect skin is a sign of a poor immune system. David laughed. To me, it was a sign that you had a good story to tell.
Her outrage faded. At high speed. Some adventure, huh? As I thought the first time I saw you — you take risks. He still had the look in his eye, the pretty look.
Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. The greenbelt. The greenspace. The park. What does Tally eat on her trip?
Dehydrated PadThai. Dehydrated SpagBol. Logging out…. Logging out You've been inactive for a while, logging you out in a few seconds David, Shay, and Croy walk Tally to the Smoke. Shay takes Tally straight to the library where she is to meet the boss, an older citizen who hands out job assignments. As they wait for the Boss, Shay shows Tally some ancient magazines filled with pictures of the rusties.
Tally is shocked by their ugly appearances, especially one Shay calls a model. The model is much too thin and her beauty is nothing like the pretties Tally has grown up with. Browse all BookRags Study Guides.
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