Conflict and Resolution

The main conflict in this book was the issue of Special Circumstances putting lesions in people's minds during the operation. When that happened, none of the new pretties would realize what had happened and would never think anything was different due to them. That was the reason why Az and Maddy ran away, because they knew it wasn't right for people to be controlled by others and everyone had a right to think and act for themselves. So after Special Circumstances rounded up all the members of the Smoke and killed Az, Tally resolved to do everything in her power to help Maddy develop an antidote to the lesions inserted in people during the change. The only way she could think of how to do this, she had to become a pretty and later allow Maddy to try her drug on her. And because this is how the book ended, with her going back to the city to become a pretty, the conflict is not resolved and leaves the reader wondering how the events will play out until the next book.