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After reading many question came to my mind such as, must one suffer so all can be happy? Is torture “justified” if it will save lives? is one life worth any more than another? It is the same as saying that we can trade one person for another, simply because one person is seen as lesser in the eyes of the world. Both actions require complete ignorance of the fact that in the town there is a young child who is suffering. Leaving Omelas, like living there, I find immoral as well. Are these people that walk away more compassionate than the ones that stay, is it a easy choice to make to walk away. The people who walk away from the city Omelas are people that can not bare to live a life of isolation and happiness, at the expense of another life. They keep walking, and walk straight out of the city of Omelas…”. On the other hand, those who cannot accept the idea simply “go out into the street, and walk down the street alone.
Rather, most simply accept that, if anything were to change, the “…beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed”. The child is the one in particular in Omelas who lives without happiness, yet no one chooses to help it. About it, the narrator says, “perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps it has become imbecile through fear, malnutrition, and neglect”. in reality, when each person come of age, they are command to observe a small child that lives in constant misery. The citizens live in what they choose to believe is a perfect world, without despair or sorrow. everything about Omelas is amusing, except for the secret of the city “the good fortune of Omelas requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth, darkness and misery”. In this story, Omelas is an Utopian city of happiness and pleasure, whose inhabitants are smart and cultured. I found this story to be extremely creepy, and I got a cold feeling when I read it. Posted in Reading Response 5: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Uncategorized | Leave a reply The Ones Who Walk Away i just wanted to add that because i thought that part of the story portrayed the child in The One Who Walk Away from Omelas. the only difference between them was one was cared to become that way while the other was punished through wickedness and evil to become the way he is now. the child and the narrator of the The Yellow Wallpaper were both in the same situation.
I feel that the author did a good job at it because i could vividly imagine it in my mind and the way the they kept the child from leaving the room and keeping there kind of made me remember the story of The Yellow Wallpaper. Through out the story the narrator goes to specific details on explaining how they tortured the kid in that corner of a room. their knowledge was that pain and evil kept them interested and that they enjoyed doing this. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.” I believe the people of Omelas looked at themselves as people who didn’t feel happiness as the same way we did. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. I couldn’t believe that the people of Omelas were going to be this way. To me through out the whole story I got this cold feeling from how the narrator described the story. the narrator describe them as people who defies happiness but they look upon violence as something they enjoy. It was kind of ironic the fact the people of Omelas talk about how the city is and how their people are while they kept a dark secret hidden from the city itself.
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