The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Essay

In the passage, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, by Ursula Leguin is about a city that has a utopian society. The city stood near the sea encircling the north and west mountains. The citizens in Omelas were not your typical kind of people, but believe or not they were happy. The society had no leader; everyone was equal in the city Omelas. However, the citizens of Omelas have a deep dark secret in order to keep their city happy. In order to keep their city happy they imprison a child. They believe the child was the only token to keep their society in order. Although, there are people who are against the secret, they do not find a way to stop it. They continue with the problem and just kept it to themselves until that cannot bare the pain they feel inside anymore. Which led
She wants to convince you the city is not doing anything wrong, “Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy? No? Then let me describe one more thing” (Leguin 4). She trying gives reason why the city is so beautiful because the child boy or girl is locked up. However, she condemning the people who walk away because “They leave Omelas they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas” (Leguin 6). The Omelans kill themselves; they go off into the darkness and never come back. Which when you kill yourself it becomes pitch black. The author cannot describe what happens when you die because she never experiences it so the only way she can explain is by saying they walk into “darkness”. The people who leave already know where their goings and are okay with