Anahy Lucio Phil 2306.06 Professor McDaniel September 1, 2016 The Selfish Ones from The City Omelas “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin is a short story based on the pursuit of happiness, which leads them to having to choose between their happiness that comes from ignoring the wrong doings around them or the happiness that will come from standing up for what is right even if it means the losing their comfort zone. This story is based in Omales, a city depicted as a utopia, where happiness exists everywhere. The narrator focuses on the day of the Festival of Summer which was the celebration of the first day of summer. During these celebration children rode willing horses in races, the day was bright and clear, and all kinds of music filled the air, bells ring, and the air itself …show more content…
However, the narrator insists that the people of Omelas lead complex lives, maybe not as complex as people who aren’t from Omelas but they don’t carry the characteristics’ that are needed to be completely and only happy. Which bring us to the question of how does this city achieve such happiness. Towards the end of the story when the narrator finally finishes trying to convince the reader of how great the city was she begins talking about a child locked in a room underground of a house who is neglected and half-starved and everyone over adolescence in this city knows about the child (Guin). In fact, ever so often people go to visit the child but they are not a loud to be kind to it. Some people who go visit the child never return, most of them go for a walk and eventually live the city but those that return home in my opinion go to visit the child basically make themselves feel better about their life compared to this poor child’s life. So as you continue reading you begin to understand that the city of Omelas, the so called utopia, struck a deal for its