First one problems and privilege and the illusion I had my first first-date at Valley Fair Mall last week. My date brandished his new iPhone and told me how being poor is hard on him. I told him how the child in China who made his phone was poor and abused, he wasn’t. This ignorance of ones privilege, present in my date and in most first-world citizens, is what the narrator masterfully brings out in“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin. The city of Omelas has joyful processions, perfect harvests, and healthy children. But, in exchange for all of this, one child must be locked away in abject misery. The narrator makes us cognizant of how our own happiness comes at the price of someone else’s happiness, much like in Omelas. The narrator portrays Omelas as a pertinent concept rather than a real place by making the reader doubt the utopian nature of Omelas,.
In the first half of this work, the narrator outlines the fulfilling, content nature of Omelas. This tone is established through synaesthesia such as “white-gold fire across the..air”(LeGuin,175) or the “cheerful …sweetness of the air”(175). Even vivid imagery such as pastry crumbs on grey beards give a feeling of underlying contentment to the people. Omelas can be truly called a ‘utopia.’ through its cosmetic natural beauty and the content …show more content…
The text is interspersed with the narrators’ queries on whether the reader has been sold on the city of Omelas. For instance, “Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy?”(177) and “I wish I could describe it better. I wish I could convince you”(177). The use of rhetorical questions instead of simple assertions by the author makes the reader wonder why the narrator is so desperate to convince them of Omelas. Then, to the reader, results in the conundrum of whether or not they can rely on the
In the first half of this work, the narrator outlines the fulfilling, content nature of Omelas. This tone is established through synaesthesia such as “white-gold fire across the..air”(LeGuin,175) or the “cheerful …sweetness of the air”(175). Even vivid imagery such as pastry crumbs on grey beards give a feeling of underlying contentment to the people. Omelas can be truly called a ‘utopia.’ through its cosmetic natural beauty and the content …show more content…
The text is interspersed with the narrators’ queries on whether the reader has been sold on the city of Omelas. For instance, “Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy?”(177) and “I wish I could describe it better. I wish I could convince you”(177). The use of rhetorical questions instead of simple assertions by the author makes the reader wonder why the narrator is so desperate to convince them of Omelas. Then, to the reader, results in the conundrum of whether or not they can rely on the