Anti Heros

Tally Youngblood from the uglies series is a great example of an anti hero in young adult literature. The society she lives in creates the illusion that we are all ugly and we need surgery and parties to make every one pretty and fun. In the beginning Talley is not considered an anti hero she believes what the leaders want her to believe and her friend who does not want to conform seems like the real anti hero. Tally is not allowed to conform and must fake being the anti hero and slowly she stops faking and starts believing again what people are telling her to believe only it is the other side telling her. so far from my summary Tally does not seem to be the anti hero and in the model of young adult literature she does not come into her own until the end where she rebels against the government to not become one of their pretty brain washed slaves. the uglies is a series and the good thing about it is in each book tally conforms then rebels and in the first two books is crushed and becomes something different but becomes what the government wants her to be until the last book where she does get away and her constant poking holes does cause the government to crumble. this story does have somewhat of a happy ending unlike other anti hero stories where the bad guys win but it does have an anti hero who rebels because what is the norm is wrong and here it is wrong because the government is riding on peoples insecurities but on a more literal level brain washing people. Like a normal anti hero talley does not stay to live in her fame but leaves. Maybe the anti hero leaves because they have seen too much because while everyone else was conforming and blind they could see what was really going on.