"Uglies," by Scott Westerfeld has to do with the social issue, discrimination. In the novel, everyone who is under age sixteen is considered "an ugly" and lives in Uglyville. In Uglyville, they live with minimal living essentials: they live in cheap shacks, wear shabby, worn- down clothes, and are convinced that they're life is pretty much worthless until their sixteenth birthday. On their sixteenth birthday, the uglies go through surgery to become pretty. Once they're changed over completely, they move into a whole different way of living: the life of luxery. This is discrimination against the way people look. Basically, it's saying that your life is useless unless you're pretty. When in reality, everybody is different and no matter who we are or what we look like, we should embrace what we have and live our life all the same.
This is well written and organized, you also included significant detail about the issue :)
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