The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

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Imagine a place where there is peace, love and happiness shared amongst a community. This sounds so far-fetched from the world in which we live, and to most people this place is unimaginable. The majority of people don’t understand that we live in a world in which happiness and peace comes at the expense of another class of people. Whether or not you understand this doesn’t make you guilty of anything, it just makes you normal. Figuratively, the setting of the story, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” relates quite well to the setting in which we live in on a daily basis. We live in a world in which people are sacrificed for freedom and happiness every day. In the story, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, the same thing is taking place. A single individual is being sacrificed for the greater good of the rest of the community. The peace, love and happiness of the community rides on the shoulders of this single individual. The Author of this story uses the setting of the story to relate to the setting of the world in which we live today in a couple of different ways. The author’s objective in writing this story to most appears to be to create an imaginary community in which there is peace and everyone within the community. Clearly, this would be imaginary and not possible to almost everyone. The author added a twist to the story when it was revealed that in order for this peaceful, happy and conflict free society to exist, someone had to endure pain. It was at this point in the story where the connection to the real world was revealed. The world in which us Americans wake up every day could be described a pretty peaceful by most. We don’t see the kind of disease, famine and all out disparity on a large scale as many places in the rest of the world. America’s story relates very directly to “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” in the sense that the

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