Symbolism In The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas

Ursula Leguin's story, “ The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas”, gives a moral and symbolic approach of ideas of “light” and “darkness” throughout the story. She describes light at the beginning of the story as a joyous place celebrating and rejoicing in the city of Omelas that has been created. Darkness is illustrated as a suffering child weeping in sorrow as if he was asking for forgiveness. The moral throughout the story forces the city of Omelas to leave the city because they cannot afflict the suffering child for the cause of the society. The symbolism of light illustrations throughout the opening paragraph makes the reader create a scenario of images using words like happy, peaceful and joyous. She implements the words to represent the meaning of life and fulfillment on how the city celebrate their happiness at the beginning of the story. “boys and girls, were naked in the bright air...” (Leguin258). This form of allusion refers to the garden of

The story can be illustrated in many different ways like having upper class versus lower class and from right and wrong ideas. The author can describe how joyous the city of Omelas can be until you fall into sin and abolish the happiness of the world. We can compare guilt in the Omelas society as choosing the child to die, “one thing I know there is none in Omelas is guilt” (261). This statement emphasize the child as a savior. Jesus was crucified for our sins and our mistakes. He died for us because he loved us and he has forgiven us for our mistakes that we had made in life. “it is the existence of the child, and their knowledge of its existence Omelians can be guilt free” (261). The quote is clear how the comparison of the child with Jesus comes in the story as Jesus forgives anyone who accepts him as his savior through the suffering of his crucifixion and rewards us with guilt free. In other words reconcile from our