In all the books: The Giver, Uglies and Pretties all the main characters start by thinking that their community is perfect. Later in the book they find out the horrors that their community is and that it is not a perfect place to live in.
In the Giver Jonas was a happy boy and he loved to help around his community. He thought it was perfect until in the ceremony of twelve he became the new receiver of memories. He started to go to training with a guy called the Giver and he started to receive memories that thought him about the past for his community. Later he learns that his father during release he kill people instead of taking them into another community. Jonas learns that Gave is going to be released the next day so Jonas during his escape he takes Gave with him so that he doesn't have to die when he is about to be released. Jonas lives sadly his community and angry with himself because he thought that his community was perfect when it was not. Also that the people were controlling him the way that they wanted to.
So in this story the author reveals actions to try to get the reader to read even further in the book try to find out what happens next. Also he shows that in the story the people in the community are being controlled by the authorities to believe everything that they say. Finally Jonas affects his community on a big way because without a receiver, all the memories that the receiver received are now going to affect the people because they are going to be receiving those memories and experiencing the pain.
In uglies Tally thinks that being pretty is wonderful and that it is the best thing in the whole world. She thought all of this until she meet Shay. With Shay Tally learned new things that she did not and also learns about the things that are outside of her community. During one of her tricks Tally learns that Shay wants to escape and go to a place called the smoke. Shay makes Tally promise her that she is not going to tell anyone and this promise changes Tallys live forever. On the day she is supposed to have her operation she meets Dr. Cable, a woman that tell Tally that if she doesn't find Shay and the others she will never turn pretty. Tally chooses to betray Shay and goes to the smoke where she meets David and Tally changes her mind and wants to stay in the smoke with Shay and the others. Later special circumstances gets to the smoke and captures all of the uglies and take them to pretty town and they turn shay into a pretty. Later Tally learns that when uglies turn pretty they put leasures on your brain so you forget about the past. Later David's mother finds a cure and Tally sacrifices herself to try the medicine.
In the book the author uses different points of view to try to make the reader see what the other characters think and why they act the way they do. Also he proves that the people in the book do what they want to do so that they can control the other people and make them act a certain way. Finally they affect their community because they lets the other pretties see what special circumstances does to uglies and other people inside the community.
In Pretties Tally and Shay and the rest of their friend are pretties and later in the book she remembers what is wrong with her and her community . She and her boy friend escape and they go out to the wilderness where she and Zane see David and the rest and she starts to live again the same way that she used to do when she was in the smoke. Later in the book she finds out that the other people think that she is special and in the end she turns into a especial.
During the story the author sets up a problem to capture the attention of the reader so he reads further to find out what is going to happen to the character. Also he proves that the authorities track everyone and control them from the brain to do what they want them to be doing. Also Tally affects her community by telling some pretties that during their operations they put lesions on their brain and also she gives them a medicine to help they remember what they did on the past and help them control their selves.