“ ‘Don’t eat anything else, Tally. In fact, take a couple of these.’ He pulled a packet of calorie-purgers from his pocket - four had already been punched out. Ít helps if your heart’s beating faster.’ He punched out two more, and bolted them down with a drink of coffe.
‘Helps what?’ she asked.
Zane pointed at his head. ‘Thinking. Hunger focuses your mind. Any kind of excitement works, actually.’ “
Pg 134
Reaction: I think this part brings up Zane as a very prominent dystopian protagonist. Even though he's pretty and has the lesions in his brain he is still able to somewhat think for himself enough to see that people in new pretty town can't exactly think correctly. The 'Crims' clique in 'New Pretty Town' are all about this feeling of being what they call 'bubbly'. These are the people who for whatever reason are able to think a little bit more than the average 'pretties' in 'New Pretty Town'. I wonder though, how Zane was able to figure out all these little things that they can do to themselves to help keep their minds a little bit clear of the lesions so that they are actually able to think. Tally mentions when she first meets Zane how he doesn't eat much so it gives his face a different figure from most other 'pretties' but obviously there was a specific reason as to why he actually doesn't eat.
Analysis: Here the author shows the potential that people have to be able to go think for themselves and go against society even with the lesions in their brain. This part sets up Zane as a main dystopian protagonist in this book since hes the one who's helping Tally think clearly. She's a little apprehensive at first to the things he tells her to do but ironically enough she can't resist Zane's pretty face and eventually does the things he acts of her like not to eat and take the calorie-purge pills. This show that with a little help anybody can start to think straight which leads to many possibility to going against this society and doing something about the way they run things. With enough people 'bubbly' the pretties could potentially rise up against the 'Special Circumstances' and fix the lesions put in their brains in order to turn them into brain dead zombies.
‘Helps what?’ she asked.
Zane pointed at his head. ‘Thinking. Hunger focuses your mind. Any kind of excitement works, actually.’ “
Pg 134
Reaction: I think this part brings up Zane as a very prominent dystopian protagonist. Even though he's pretty and has the lesions in his brain he is still able to somewhat think for himself enough to see that people in new pretty town can't exactly think correctly. The 'Crims' clique in 'New Pretty Town' are all about this feeling of being what they call 'bubbly'. These are the people who for whatever reason are able to think a little bit more than the average 'pretties' in 'New Pretty Town'. I wonder though, how Zane was able to figure out all these little things that they can do to themselves to help keep their minds a little bit clear of the lesions so that they are actually able to think. Tally mentions when she first meets Zane how he doesn't eat much so it gives his face a different figure from most other 'pretties' but obviously there was a specific reason as to why he actually doesn't eat.
Analysis: Here the author shows the potential that people have to be able to go think for themselves and go against society even with the lesions in their brain. This part sets up Zane as a main dystopian protagonist in this book since hes the one who's helping Tally think clearly. She's a little apprehensive at first to the things he tells her to do but ironically enough she can't resist Zane's pretty face and eventually does the things he acts of her like not to eat and take the calorie-purge pills. This show that with a little help anybody can start to think straight which leads to many possibility to going against this society and doing something about the way they run things. With enough people 'bubbly' the pretties could potentially rise up against the 'Special Circumstances' and fix the lesions put in their brains in order to turn them into brain dead zombies.
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