The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Essay
For One Human’s Joy to Prosper, One Human’s Joy must be sacrificed. Ursula K. LeGuin creates the fearful child to assert that in order for the people of Omelas to be happy, the child must be tortured by the city.
The people of Omelas are ultimately full of joy and happiness, until they come to the age when they see the child, about 8 – 12 years of age. Then they are taken to see the unfortunate child. This “Thing”, as it refers to in the text, is naked, fed only a few morsels a day, and has no meat on its bones. It sometimes cries out for help in the middle of the night, and is 10, though it only looks six years old. This child, that has done nothing wrong, is tortured like this, every day, every minute of its life, just so other people can be happy.
The author created her protagonist, which are the ones who walk away from Omelas. They walk away from the city, because they don’t want to be the cause of the tortured child. The author created this protagonist to show that this happens not only in the story, but also in real life, every day.
In the story it says: “In one corner of the little room a couple of mops, with stiff, clotted, foul-smelling heads stand near a rusty bucket. The floor is dirt, a little damp to the touch, as cellar dirt usually is. The room is about three paces long and two wide: a mere broom closet or disused tool room. In the room a child is sitting. It could be a boy or a girl. It looks about six, but actually is nearly ten. It is feeble-minded. Perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps it has become imbecile through fear, malnutrition, and neglect.
This clearly tells me, that this child is ignored, not fed, and is so scared, that it has gone mentally challenged. These are all reasons that it has been near death. Even the room is degraded. The room is dirty, and is very small. And one small child has been sitting in there for the past 10 years.
In the text it says: “The door is always locked; and nobody ever comes, except that
The people of Omelas are ultimately full of joy and happiness, until they come to the age when they see the child, about 8 – 12 years of age. Then they are taken to see the unfortunate child. This “Thing”, as it refers to in the text, is naked, fed only a few morsels a day, and has no meat on its bones. It sometimes cries out for help in the middle of the night, and is 10, though it only looks six years old. This child, that has done nothing wrong, is tortured like this, every day, every minute of its life, just so other people can be happy.
The author created her protagonist, which are the ones who walk away from Omelas. They walk away from the city, because they don’t want to be the cause of the tortured child. The author created this protagonist to show that this happens not only in the story, but also in real life, every day.
In the story it says: “In one corner of the little room a couple of mops, with stiff, clotted, foul-smelling heads stand near a rusty bucket. The floor is dirt, a little damp to the touch, as cellar dirt usually is. The room is about three paces long and two wide: a mere broom closet or disused tool room. In the room a child is sitting. It could be a boy or a girl. It looks about six, but actually is nearly ten. It is feeble-minded. Perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps it has become imbecile through fear, malnutrition, and neglect.
This clearly tells me, that this child is ignored, not fed, and is so scared, that it has gone mentally challenged. These are all reasons that it has been near death. Even the room is degraded. The room is dirty, and is very small. And one small child has been sitting in there for the past 10 years.
In the text it says: “The door is always locked; and nobody ever comes, except that