The One Who Walk Away From Omelas Literary Analysis
There many different writing strategies used in “The One Who Walk Away From Omelas”, but the conflict is the one that best develops the passage. Will you ever gave up your child, to reach happiness? In this story, the society of Omelas sacrifices a child to reach utopia because that's their tradition. Conflict is the problem that happens in this story. The author uses conflict to show the central idea.
One example of how conflict shows happiness will never happen unless others are suffering is when the people of Omelas closed the child and abusing the child for their utopia society. The author writes, “ They all know it is there, all people of the Omelas… They all know it has to be there… But they all understand that their happiness, the beauty …show more content…
The author writes, ¨Often the young people go home in tears. Or in a tearless rage, when they have seen the child and gave this terrible paradox. They may brood over it for week or years.¨ This is an example of conflict because the young people wants to aid the child, but they will not do it because if they do so, they lose their happiness, so they have an internal conflict and blood and feel guilt. This conflict reveal the central idea because the people of Omelas feel suffer even though they are in utopia. They feel that they are hurt because they knew all their happiness, depend on the child and this produce conflict in them, in which they have to decide to stay and live with their wrongdoing or leave their city and happiness behind. This raise the question of what happen to the people who stay in Omelas? Perhaps, they understood that they have to suffer for their happiness because they feel guilty and anger they all know why they feel like that. So they know what's wrong, but they decide to sacrifice their humanity and their fairness for their happiness. The society has the power to stop their suffering by just free the child, but if they do it, then their utopia will be gone. However, sacrifice for people pleasure could be positive and also negative; example the slave owner sacrifice people freedom for their
One example of how conflict shows happiness will never happen unless others are suffering is when the people of Omelas closed the child and abusing the child for their utopia society. The author writes, “ They all know it is there, all people of the Omelas… They all know it has to be there… But they all understand that their happiness, the beauty …show more content…
The author writes, ¨Often the young people go home in tears. Or in a tearless rage, when they have seen the child and gave this terrible paradox. They may brood over it for week or years.¨ This is an example of conflict because the young people wants to aid the child, but they will not do it because if they do so, they lose their happiness, so they have an internal conflict and blood and feel guilt. This conflict reveal the central idea because the people of Omelas feel suffer even though they are in utopia. They feel that they are hurt because they knew all their happiness, depend on the child and this produce conflict in them, in which they have to decide to stay and live with their wrongdoing or leave their city and happiness behind. This raise the question of what happen to the people who stay in Omelas? Perhaps, they understood that they have to suffer for their happiness because they feel guilty and anger they all know why they feel like that. So they know what's wrong, but they decide to sacrifice their humanity and their fairness for their happiness. The society has the power to stop their suffering by just free the child, but if they do it, then their utopia will be gone. However, sacrifice for people pleasure could be positive and also negative; example the slave owner sacrifice people freedom for their