The main character of Pretties by Scott Westerfeld?

Answer 1

The climax of Pretties takes place when Zane and Tally climb the tower of the mansion and share the pills for the cure, only to have Special Circumstance arrive on the scene. The author of Pretties is Scott Westerfeld.

Answer 2

Spoiler Alert!

At the end of Pretties, Zane finds out that his headaches are a result of the pill he took in the beginning of the novel. He gambled by taking only one of them, and got the wrong one. The nanobots in it ate the lesions in his brain, ending his bubbleheadedness, but then they had no commands to stop and kept reproducing, eating away at the tissue.

The Specials stopped the destruction of his brain tissue when he came into the hospital with his broken hand (when Tally rushes him, unconscious, to the hospital after they discover Shay's new "cure" [cutting] and he's fine, they need a reason for rushing there and so he breaks his knuckles), placing a tracker in his back molar and programming it to send out pain so that he won't be suspicious.

Zane and Tally use long, insulated gloves to get their interface cuffs off (they slip them on under the cuffs and then stick their hands into the fires of the hot-air balloon they "borrow," thereby expanding the metal just enough [heat makes metal expand] that they could slip them off). Then they escape to the New Smoke, still not aware of the tracker in Zane's tooth.

Tally and Zane get separated, and when Tally finds Zane in the New Smoke, he's in pretty bad shape. His brain is failing, the areas that control memory and cognition eaten away by the nanos. Tally discovers that she actually cured herself (considering that the pill she took would have no effect without its mate).

Then the Specials swoop in, although not in time to catch the New Smoke (they abandon Tally and Zane because of the tracker and Tally's absolute refusal to leave him) and they realize too late that the tracker is bonded into Zane's jawbone. Zane is taken away by Special Circumstances, presumably to the hospital, and Tally gets captured by Shay, who is now Special, and the historic cliffhanger is uttered, "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special" (Westerfeld 370).

The third book is called Specials, the fourth Extras. An excellent series all-around.

WORK CITED
Westerfeld, Scott. Pretties. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Answer 3

I'd say it would start when Jace goes after Valentine and "Sebastian", then Jace and Sebastian get in the fight.

The highest point is probably when Jace dies, then is brought back to life.

However, it's debatable. The whole book is very exciting. =D

Answer 4

That technology is something we should be wary of. To question the norm and think about everything. That humanity can overcome any struggle.

Answer 5

New Pretty Town, The Special's Science Experiment (aka the reservation), Rusty Ruins, and The New Smoke are the only places you'll see in the book.

Answer 6

Main character: Tally Main characters: Tally, Zane, Peris, Fausto, Shay

Answer 7

No