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Rhetorical Analysis Of The Ones Who Walk Away From The Omelas

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Rhetoric In “The Ones Who Walk Away From The Omelas” When I first read “The Ones Who Walk Away From The Omelas, I was confused as to why anyone would want to walk away from their perfect society. Their world sounded as if everything I wish our world could be, and it seemed too good to be true, but as I kept reading, I realized that it was too good to be true. I realized what I already knew; that no society can be perfect without moral compromise. By the end of the story, I wanted to believe that I would have walked away from the Omelas too if I was in that situation. If everyone is thriving at the expense of one child, how is that fair to the child? Wouldn’t you rather live in a world with its ups and downs; a more human world? The short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From The Omelas” …show more content…

The author states that the child is held there, in misery, for the good of their society. Ursula Le Guin, the author of this short story, was born into a very scholarly family who pride themselves in their work, research, and knowledge. Le Guin has a passion for all things science fiction. She read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy books growing up, and then began to write some as she got older. She enjoyed reading and researching different cultures, especially Norse and Native American cultures. Le Guin was very creative and in touch with the facts of society, which she channeled into her writing. The intended meaning of the story is the fact that in order for a society to thrive or be perfect, someone has to suffer and that perfection is just a state of mind. Le Guin did a fantastic job of portraying this idea through her use of logos, pathos, and ethos to support her intended meaning, that there can be no happiness without suffering, throughout the tale. Le Guin uses logos as a rhetorical strategy throughout the short

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