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![]() ![]() In interviews and essays, Westerfeld has also taken issue with the increasing interest in policing teens’ whereabouts and behavior, specifically as parents’ ability (or potential ability) to track teens through their phones, cars, and even dental implants have made headlines. ![]() ![]() In the 10 years prior to Uglies’ publication, cosmetic procedures on patients younger than 18 increased dramatically, from around 14,000 procedures in 1996 to 333,000 procedures in 2005. Today, medical associations differentiate between plastic surgery (which is reconstructive and corrects impairments like cleft palates or traumatic injuries) and cosmetic surgery (which is elective and includes procedures like breast augmentation, facelifts, and liposuction) it’s cosmetic surgery that Westerfeld takes issue with in Uglies. Though people have been repairing bodies for millennia, elective surgery wasn’t much of a possibility until the mid to late 19th century, thanks to the development of anesthesia and antibiotics. The earliest mention of what would be considered plastic surgery today appears in the Edwin Smith Papyrus, a medical text dating to between 30 B.C. The Uglies series was inspired by the increasing availability of plastic surgery (especially for young people), as well as the increase in surveillance that Westerfeld sees young people experiencing. ![]() ![]() ![]() He gave only sketches of how it might be played in practice, but made it clear that it is a game of comparisons and analogies across different subject areas. The game itself is a central theme of Hesse’s novel. ![]() For many, the main interest of the novel is the game of the title, not as a symbol or metaphor, but an actual playable game. ![]() Others place it alongside previous novels of Hesse which document his personal growth, and the ongoing tension between spiritual solitude and social engagement. Some see it as a social statement, a product of its time of writing just before and during the second world war. In 1943, Hermann Hesse published Das Glasperlenspiel (“The Glass Bead Game”). ![]() ![]() ![]() Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound. ![]() Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding." Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn t technically end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. The first twisted and futuristic novel in the perennially popular "New York Times "bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman. ![]() |