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Uglies is a book that was written by Scott Westerfield and was officially published in February of 2005. The book primarily focuses on outer beauty and how those who are not beautiful are 'uglies' and therefore not even acceptable in society. Tally is the main character and the book talks about her struggles in trying to understand this society. 

This very much represents what our society is slowly turning into today. The youth especially are being forced into a society that tells them that their not good enough the way they are and they have to change the way they look in order to be 'beautiful.' There are a few in the book that choose not to become pretties and runaway and these people are looked down on. In many ways, this is how our society is today. The evil of beauty is just as dominant in our world today as it was in Tally's world. People are judged today just because they're eyes are not perfect, their ears are too big, or even simply because they don't look like the super models or the actresses and actors that we see in everyday media. We are simply being taught that we are not good enough the way God made us. Life in the empire is becoming sadder and sadder and this is the harsh reality of what we are slowly becoming. In the kingdom of God we will all be made equals anyway and God loves us just the way we are because he created each and every one of us. 

What can we do to help re-shape and re-build the minds of the youth today? How can we as Christians not be sucked into a society where outer appearance is the only thing that matters and sometimes is what leads people to judge us? And how would God react to the way that some of us are slowly starting to think a little too much about our outer appearances?