The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Irony

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is a short story about a utopian city called Omelas. The city and its people are possibly the happiest people the world will ever see. The notion of pain, suffering, and despair have no place within the city of Omelas. The city may also be entirely theoretical, as the narrator seems to change facts about the city on a whim. The author chose to create irony within her story to dissect the moral dilemma of utopian ideals and the justification of the suffering of one for the good of all.
The first moment where the story creates an illusion of knowing starts immediately as the story begins. The author sets the first expectation of a happy little town. That expectation is that there is nothing to expect from this comfortable but otherwise dull little town. The city seems like a stepping stone to the actual plot of the story. The narrator has some difficulty describing the city to the reader since the notion of happiness in storytelling, in

Its plot revolves around happiness vs. suffering and the good of the many over the individual's misfortune. The author created irony within the perfect city of Omelas to show the balance between happiness and suffering as a give-and-take relationship where the prosperity of the people comes from an unequal balance. All the suffering from the city is placed on top of one helpless child. The author would then create more irony instead of the townsfolk saving the child from its horrible fate. The people would either accept the child's existence or leave the city entirely. Both options escape the guilt of keeping a child locked in a dark and dirty room for the rest of eternity, all for the continued well-being of the society above. The story is an allegory on the human justification for injustice for the good of all and the false notion that these injustices are merely facts of