“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is considered an allegory because the characters represent the people in our society. Le Quin uses the allegory to convey the central idea that there is no end to suffering, even if you tried to run away from it which is how the author views our society. Omelas is a utopia and everyone is happy there. But there is only one person that isn’t happy. According to the story the, “Abundance of their Harvest and the kindly weather of the skies, depend wholly on this child abominable misery”(13). This shows that even Omelas requires suffering to stay a utopia. Even if one place is happy there will be another place that is suffering. Everybody knows about the child and some feels bad for him. In the story it states,
