The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas- Ursula K. Le Guin

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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 story Ones Who Away From Omelas by Usurla Le Guin open with the celebration of the summer festival; an annual event featuring games and horse riding. Under this happiness, attractive city a child has been locked in a cage and forced to live in its personnel smut. “The child's suffering is meant to teach the people of Omelas how cruel justice can be and how precious happiness can be.” Many citizen of Omelas learns how the child is suffering and horrible life in order to make the people of this city happy and wealthy. Many people who feel sorry for

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The captivating stories of sacrifice and hope written in: “The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas,” “Into the Wild,” and “The Warmth of Other Suns” each portray someone choosing to walk away, hoping to find a better life for themselves. Physical and emotional suffering compels the people who walked away from Omelas, Chris McCandless from “Into the Wild,” and African Americans from “The Warmth of Other Suns,” to leave everything they have ever known, in desperate hope of finding freedom and change. Although the characters within the works share some similarities in their purpose for fleeing their origins, there are also some differences in the motivation and the goals these characters hope to achieve when finding a new life. The dystopias that the main characters attempt to leave, point to some of the characteristics that a utopia should include. After reading each of the preceding works, one can conclude that a utopia should include freedom, change, and equality for all. If the ones that walk away from Omelas, Chris McCandless, and African Americans had access to these three characteristics, the city of Omelas would really be a true utopia, Chris McCandless would not have separated himself from society, and African Americans would have been able to live anywhere without discrimination.

In this tale, the people who leave decide that no utopia, no fair city, is worth the sacrifice of even a single child. They decide that not one tear of his suffering is worth all the splendor that comes as a result.

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The short story ‘The ones who walk away from Omelas’, written by Ursula K. Le Guin is about an extraordinary city whose people live their lives with content. However, the prosperity of this city is paid for by the suffering of a child in a basement. I was disgusted by the dark secret the city of Omelas held. A child that is neglected and isolated in a small broom-closet is there because it's suffering is the reason why all the people of Omelas are so happy. Everyone in Omelas knows about this child, they learn about when they 8-12.

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Omelas follows the little boy and him being trapped for other people’s happiness. The story also dives into the moral conflict that the people have with themselves about the boy being treated horrendously so they can enjoy happiness. The citizens are torn, as they feel awful for exploiting the life and health of the little boy, but at the same time are selfish and want to enjoy their happiness. There is also the choice to save the boy, and some of them think about this as well. Le Guin and Oates’s stories both differ in storyline and purpose, but the mindsets of their main characters are virtually the same as both

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