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Omelas is shown within the text as a world which combines traditions of the past and technology of the future. Without these contradictory elements, Omelas would not be able to function as a balanced storyworld, and, arguably, no storyworld would. This is a representation of the way in which balance and layering is crucial to a storyworld, not only between the good and the evil, but also throughout other elements such as the old and the new, or the virtuous and that which lacks of virtue. Within Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, the narrator struggles to create a world which is both believable to the reader and utopian, until she eventually gives up and brings evil into her storyworld as a last-ditch attempt to make her reader believe in the world she has created.
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Those who are disadvantaged live in misery to serve our At first, readers might think the story is told in the third person because of the long description of the procession during the festival of summer. Le Guin is a first-person narration told from the point of view of the narrator who is outside the plot. If there was no starvation or hunger, we would never be able to appreciate the variety of our meals or the quench of our thirst. The story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Our joy and contentment can simply not exist without the pain of others, especially for those who can not afford those luxuries without their mistreatment. Without those who work tirelessly to pick our cocoa leaves for meager pay, we would never be able to enjoy the sweet flavour of chocolate. The atmospheres created are starkly different, nevertheless, as Le Guin outlined, one cannot exist without the other, “the city of happiness” (pg.7) relies on the vile place in which this child …show more content… Without the pain of child slaves, we are deprived of the treasures at clothing stores such as Forever 21 or H&M. This description is very different from the joyous “green meadows… cheerful faint sweetness in the air.”(pg.1) present in Omelas. With only “little light between cracks in the wall” (pg.4), cobwebbed corners, and the foul smell of excrements in what is described as a broom closet, this is the scenic embodiment of wretchedness and pain. Le …show more content… Through the darkness in the imagery, Le Guin sends a sense of the misery within the child. In the short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, author Ursula Le Guin illustrates the necessity within a society to understand a scale of emotion, the pain and suffering of a being, to comprehend happiness. If all the colours within our palate are colourful we would never be able to understand its contrast to dullness, never be able to understand the value of its bright hues. Our perceptions of a range, a scale of joy can never be developed or measured, if there is no variance within our lives.
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Show More Can one truly know happiness if one has not seen misery? It is not possible for us to understand the full scope of our contentment, the privileges present within our lives, if we have no melancholy or sorrow to compare it to.