The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, And Ender's Game

Literature has a place in our world because of its eternal teachings that cannot be passed on by simply sharing or retweeting, but before we discuss my reasoning for its present importance, it is key to go over its origins and historical significance. The origin of literature dates back to ancient times of the Sumer region in Mesopotamia, then Egypt and Greece, then in Rome. Mesoamerican writings and Ancient Chinese regimes, however, bloomed on their own through independent practices. But overall, the purpose for the creation of literature was to spread knowledge and teachings through an alternate method of communication, because just verballing sharing ideas was insufficient as information gets lost and twisted and forgotten when a story is …show more content…
Firstly, Hesse’s piece which teaches us about finding and connecting with our inner self. Hesse’s masterpiece Demian is about a boy and his search for himself in the world influenced by the idea of good and evil and its superior, Abraxas with the hopes of transcending humanity’s ideas of morality. We are shown the internal conflicts of going between two worlds: one of goodness, pureness, and innocence and one of loneliness, deceit, and evil. Sinclair, the protagonist, goes through many hardships in his childhood that brought out the darkness of his heart, which he later learned to accept as he grows up. He figured that the main lesson he learned in his life was not to focus and act on things based on the idea of “good and evil”, but to embrace other metrics of evaluation. Next, we are able to learn about the factuality of happiness and the concept of scapegoatism from the utopian world of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. In the story, there is a city full of civilians and a secret realm beneath it with a singular prisoner-- a