The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Rhetorical Analysis

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“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” In Buddhism it’s believe that you must suffer in order to be happy. It kind of connects to the story , “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” but in this case one children suffer in order for the rest to be happy. In the story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, by Ursula Le Guin reveals the following message to his audience that in order to be happy what is the prices that society needs to pay in order to be happy. In this society one of the idea was participated.
In the story it seem like a perfect community. Ursula Le Guin states, “But there was no king. They did not use swords, or keep slaves. They were not barbarians. I do not know the rules and laws of their society, but I suspect that they were singularly few”. Basically, Le Guin is saying that in this world there is no laws no king you can do whatever you want it is the perfect world. According to Le Guin , “What else, what else belongs in the joyous city? The sense of victory, surely, the celebration of courage. But as we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers”. In others words they don’t need governments any laws to run their community and because that they are so free.
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According to Le Guin, “They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there” (9).Le Guin point is that all the people in Omelas must know that there is a child in the basement that is suffering for their happiness. Le Guin states, “A child of nine or ten sits at the edge of the crowd, alone, playing on a wooden flute.” According to Le Guin it says that they they don't really know the age and he’s by himself away from

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