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Inequality And Unhappiness Analysis

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If this world would stop discriminating and start seeing that everyone is different in their own ways then maybe this world wouldn't be as messed up as it is now. In the story, The ones who walk away from Omelas & Harrison Bergeron, Ursula Le Guin & Kurt Vonnegut Jr. reveals the following message to their audience: “Inequality & unhappiness” even though the stories represent a “happy world” in both of these stories some people are still suffering and sacrificing themselves for others. Then sometimes they don’t even have a choice like on the story of Harrison Bergeron the child of George got taken away without any warning, and on the story of Omelas the child was put in the cage he didn’t have a choice but to be there. Thus, no equality and …show more content…

One textual evidence on the story that Ursula Le Guin implement us with was “They all know it is there, all the people from Omelas. Some of them have seen it, other are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it had to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness … , depends wholly on this child’s abominable misery” (9). This explains that in order for Omelas to be happy and to not suffer and go through bad times, a human being has to suffer all the consequences and sacrifice himself. Which isn't fair at all because not everyone is happy and the story claims to be a utopian one so why isn't the child being happy? The kid is suffering he can’t eat, talk, play and leave the cage he’s in. The writer doesn't even say if he’s a boy or girl because he’s so beaten on the suffering that you can't describe how old he is or what’s his gender because he has Anorexia. Ursula Le Guin also provided us with the quote “The people at the door never say anything, but the child, who has not always lived in the tool room and can remember sunlight and it’s mother voice, sometimes speaks. “I will be good.” it says “please let me out I'll be good!” they never answer” (8). This word helps us understand that this world wasn't as perfect as the writer says, this is technically a dystopian world because the child is screaming …show more content…

The world is always going to have a defective person in it. Only you can make your little world perfect, One example is when David Brooks wrote in his article The Child in the Basement “if the child were let free or comforted, Omelas would be destroyed. Most people feel horrible for the child, and some parents hold their kids tighter” (8). David Brooks makes clear hear that without that poor child, the world would have been destroyed. Not only that also that not all the people from Omelas are happy, some of them feel horrible for the child which doesn't let them be happy, this isn’t a perfect world as the story tell it. Some of the people are technically unhappy, feeling horrible for the child and the child is suffering trapped in the cage. In another case of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., he provided us with the quote “H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son. Harrison, away (2). It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard… had a little mental handicap radio” (3). This describes that there is no such thing as a perfect world like the Harrison Bergeron story claims. The story claims to have equality and everyone is happy, well if they're happy and equal why did they take the child away from his parents and make that moment tragic for them. In both of these utopian stories in order for them to have happiness and equality. They have

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