The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, By Ursula Leguin

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Doing the morally correct thing is often hard and it can sometimes be easier to just turn our heads and forget what we’ve seen and walk away, but ignoring our moral compass can have some very dangerous side effects. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin is a fantastic story about the city of Omelas. Omelas is a utopian society, the residents are happy and enjoying the Festival of Summer but there is a secret hidden in the basement, a small child, who is tortured and abused. The gender of this child is unknown and is simply referred to as “it”; it is neglected, rarely fed, badly clothed and forced to sit in its own excrement. Once the citizens seem capable of understanding,

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In “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, the informally-speaking narrator depicts a cookie-cutter utopia with perpetually happy citizens that sing and dance in the music-filled streets during the Festival of Summer. However, under one of the beautiful public buildings lays a child, no older than ten years-old, who lays in its own excrement. Although the citizens know the emancipated child is there, they refuse to act upon the child’s suffering, for their happiness depends entirely on the child’s abominable misery. Through ethos, the narrator illustrates this utopian society with a casual tone and frequently asks the audience for their input. Le Guin’s fairy-tale introduction of the story establishes her credibility through her extensive knowledge and understanding of the people of Omelas. Le Guin utilizes logos through the narrator’s second person point of view which incites the audience to draw their own conclusions about the city of Omelas and question their own justifications of the child’s existence. The concept of the happiness of many relying on the necessary suffering of one forces the reader to question their own morals and their justifications for the child’s physical and mental condition. Through ethos, logos, and pathos, Le Guin presents the contrast and divide between the citizens of Omelas and the child in the cellar in order to challenge the reader’s capacity for moral self-conception.

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The short stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin have many similarities, despite their different societal settings. Both of the stories contain a false display of utopia, the following of traditions, and foul treatment. For example, in “The Lottery” every year a person’s name is drawn from a box and the “winner” is stoned to death, and the townsfolk are fine with it and keep coming back. And in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” Omelas is described as being a perfect society where everyone is happy, but in order for the utopia to thrive a young child is being detained and tortured and the people of Omelas just let it happen because they think that is all they can do. Therefore, in both of the stories the authors are saying that harm can be done from people blindly following tradition and that perfect does not exist because there will always be some type of evil activity being conducted.

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Based on my reading of the dystopian short story, “ The ones who walk away from Omelas” by author Ursula Le Guin. I wouldn’t be able to live in Omelas with the guilt of having my happiness based on a suffering of a poor child that it is,“ so thin there are no calves to its legs; its belly protrudes”(Guin 5). It would be against my morals to define my happiness, by looking upon violence as something I would enjoy. The majority of Omelas is selfish, which would make me walk away from Omelas. “They all know it[child] is there, all the people of Omelas” (Guin 5). All of them know the miserable life of the poor people, yet they would rather celebrate the summer festival. They don’t want to give up on their joyful life nor do they want to feel guilty

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