"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” was written by Ursula k. Le Guin. To be honest, when I started reading this story I became incredibly bored. I felt like I was being given a bunch of useless information describing these people and that the story was just going to be one big pointless waste of time. You would think, considering that I’ve thought that about the majority of our readings, I would’ve learned by now. I am still not sure what exactly the point to this story is, but at least it improved enough to get my attention. One explanation I read was Andrew said, ”A world without evil would be a fairytale land. Without evil how could we really enjoy happiness?” I can see where that makes sense at first, because it made sense to me when I first read it. But then I started to think about it biblically, and I disagree with what the book implies if they are in fact implying that we couldn’t enjoy happiness without evil. If you look back to Genesis, there was no evil in the garden at first. There was no pain and suffering. Are you going to try and tell me that Adam and Eve weren’t happy? Or that the only reason we are going to enjoy all of the pleasures of heaven is because there will be thousands of others suffering in hell? So I did not find this story, or what I found it to be implying enjoyable or necessary. I’m sure tomorrow in class though I will hear many different views and things I didn’t catch, so I will most likely change my mind. Oh, and one last thing. Why is it called “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”? the ones who walked away seemed like they had very little to do with the story as a whole.

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