Every human thinks different but we can have alioth thoughts it is human nature to think as a group. As a group we come to a consensus faster.
The short story “The Ones Who walks Away from Omelas” shows the destruction of one a child for the happiness of the community as a whole. The author interprets the child as the scapegoat of the society which adds religious and self conflict that confines within the human
Krupa 3 mind; the society has two choices: continue to sin continue to stay happy and put the sins on the child or leave the town of Omelas walk away from che child. The scapegoat goes back to biblical times as an animal a goat was used to cleanse the town of sin by casting it out. The people of omelas cast out the child so they can maintain their “unsinful” ways. They used the child the same way that we put our stress and conflicts on others. In philosophizing with teenagers by
Susan Verducci talks with a group of students about the meaning behind the short story but no two minds work the same so every teenager had a different conflicting or supporting ideal about omelas, the child, and the meaning of leaving the “utopia.” it made the kids question …show more content…
Or leave knowing you left the child there? (Verducci.S p.1) In the essence of developmental psychologists might say you cannot help the child since his mind has been conditioned to the fact that no one loves him and if someone was to show him love he wouldn't be able to process it while as a social psychologist might try to find a correlation in why the people stay and leave the question is in fact what might happen if one was to bring the community to stop instead of helping the child, in order to cure the body the mind must first be willing to change, but it is human nature to be reluctant to change. In fact might the question be what was the author trying to bring to light when she wrote it?
In edgar allan poe's “The Raven” shows a night in which the young narrator was at his home in late december in the darkest of night and he ponders who is there fear strikes him as there is a knock on the door. He ponders who it could be “uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before”and he opens the door to no one “here i opened wide the door;- darkness there and nothing more.”then he calls a name the
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