I first read “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” in seventh grade and I have been thinking about it ever since. I used to think about what it meant to leave and if I would be one to walk away. I probably would - not because I’m special or anything, but because I’m not good at handling difficult things and I prefer to avoid them. I don’t think that the ones who walk away are necessarily better or worse than the ones who stay, but they are certainly not the kind of people who fight for what they believe in. In Omelas there would be no activists because the citizens would not see the problems that they could fix. I appreciate that Le Guin kept insisting that the Omelas citizens were not simple and are as thoughtful as us. In my experience happy
