The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, started out as a pretty good story, but as she describes how come everyone is so happy the story turns frightening. Le Guin’s story about an ecstatic paradise is a fiction short story, so I do not believe it reflects a real place. For which I am grateful, because if that was a real place I would definitely not want to go much less be there. Imprisoning a child for life so that a whole town would not have a thing to worry about. Those that walked away instead of participating with that kind of a populace had the right idea. Ursula K. Le Guin, started the story appropriately and the whole thing would have been fine if she had not put in the fact that the whole city’s happiness relies on the incarceration
