The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Reaction Paper

A Response to “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas The whimsical city of Omelas is a beautifully portrayed utopia, or model of a perfect society. Everyone who is anyone would love to live in this place of joy and happiness. This futuristic society has no ruler and no laws but everything seems to work in perfect harmony. But there is one simple, yet disturbing rule. One must suffer for everyone to have this perfectly happy life. I would be one to walk away from Omelas , reason being in my eyes this utopia is a dystopia in disguise. My one question is could you live in Omelas knowing your little brother, sister, or even your child was suffering in the basement of this “utopia” ? The description of the city showed me automatically that Omelas is a fictional place. SO fictional that even the author is not really a part of it. Although Omelas is not a real place it does show the reader how …show more content…
This question alone tells something is wrong with this utopia. Even the author of the story cannot believe her perfectly formed little world is real. Now is when the story gets hard for me. The author tells about the child that lives in the cellar underneath this city and how every once in awhile a person or a group of people come in and stare. Here is where the two types of people are distinguished . Either they are sad and they stay or they are sad and they leave. According to the author “one thing I know there is none of in Omelas is guilt” (LeGuin 2) and that lack of guilt is the reason they are able to be blinded by the city of Omelas and they stay. LeGuin has other emotions besides happiness. The author believes that the one who walk away from Omelas are the heros. LeGuin states that “there was one more thing to tell, and this is quite incredible “(4). She is amazed at the fact that these people who walk away alone walk as if they know where they are really