could interact with the story and choose their own decisions. I should give it a score towards the higher end because of its poignant features but I think it would be better if it were a concept weaved into an epic tale (or a dungeons and dragons story) such that the readers/players, etc. I rate the story as ‘interesting to consider’, maybe a range of 6.5 to 8.5 out of 10.
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(Many more questions, but I think that’s enough). Is the child evil or just sick? Was the child innocent? How long has he been down there for? Why does all of their happiness rest on the indefinite detention of this one creature? Were there no other options? Could the child not be taught to hunt and/or exiled out of Omelas so that he wasn’t solely restricted to the cage? Are the people of Omelas evil for doing that to a child? Whose responsibility is or was it? Where did the child come from? Is it SOLELY just this child that this has happened to or does this apply to any sick or defective child? Is this purely as an emotional-appeal-based, moral-ethical example? Did they do this to all sick children or is this one child special for its ability to absorb negativity and illness? Is he magical or symbolic? Was there no other moral means to consider? What of the men who return to witness the child? Does no one ever do anything or want to do anything? Etc. This story drew or raised all sorts of questions. She offers rich, visual descriptions and speaks directly to the reader at times in an intelligent, conversational tone. I believe the author has a writing style similar to my own at times. The main theme of this story seems to be what follows: A town predominantly of happiness where things dark, sick or undesirable are sealed away. Maybe it’s simply the alchemic nature of having a scapegoat, someone to take all the negative energy so that the overworlders in Omelas don’t have to. Happiness in the form of denial – denial of pain, negativity and dark feelings, of evil, sickness and disease. Not optimists, although they would naturally possess such a trait (or so I’d expect), but rather alchemical unbalance. So, in a way, perhaps Omelas is a city of people wearing rose-tinted glasses. The decrepit boy in the cage in Omelas, I believe, represented the negativity in life. In order to be fiercely, endlessly and radiantly happy, all things negative must be locked and sealed away. The author asks you to imagine all these positive, pleasurable or desirable things and implies that whatever met their criteria for happiness could be found there, if needed.
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Īt first glance, it seems like a richly descriptive story about a culture or town that is full of happiness (just short of hedonism). Was it the child, their knowledge of and concern for the child, or their morality and decency that they were giving up to be happy? There are so many unknown layers to this that I can do naught more than wonder. This is an ineffable fact according to the law of alchemy”. “To gain something, something of equal value must be given up in exchange. Quick side-note: When I say ‘alchemic’ I mean to express that one should consider this. The author offers to us, as readers, a contradiction that says: “… she did it without… the slavery”, but it does not reach the conclusion that the child is a servant of Omelas like a slave to his owner.Review of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas This poor child symbolizes slavery in every way, because it does not have any liberty, it is a servant to all citizens of utopia so they could have a happy life. However, this poor child’s freedom is taken from it, just as slavery. There are no slaves in Utopia, as the author describes. “They know that they, like the child, are not free” the author writes, enlightening the reader that although the citizens live what it seems “free”, within their feelings and thoughts, they are not free.
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But what we see in our world or in this story, is that nobody is truly free. As human beings, we have always fought for freedom, it is encrypted in our D.N.A. The author describes that Omelas does not have any type of ruling system, no king or president, political system, technology or many things that engulf our society nowadays.
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The thesis statement reflects problems that our society has been suffering since the beginning, such as military sacrifice, slavery, and injustice among us. With the means to embrace this horrible dilemma: The happiness of all, but with a cost, the extreme unhappiness of one. As a reader, you are challenged to visualize and create your own perfect place in the world, your own Utopia. However, there is a dark and twisted secret, a child that sacrifices its life to provide prosperity, equality and happiness between the habitants of this city called Utopia. It is all about a society, that has a perfect image of itself and its people. In this amazing short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, by Ursula Le Guin.