The Ones who walk away from Omelas Essay Omelas is said to be a perfect society where everyone is happy, so happy in fact that smiles have become archaic, but underneath all this happiness is a dark truth of why Omelas has become the way it is. Ursula le Guin is the author of “The One who walk away from Omelas” and in her story she has presented us with a static problem and three possible solutions each with their own pros and cons. She presented us with this problem: In omelas there is a child, it is very young, but it is being tortured in unimaginable ways such as getting little to no food and beaten while it pleds to be better and this is all for the sake of everyone else’s happiness (all the people of Omelas). The horrible part is everyone knows about the child! So our choices are as follows: We can remain in Omelas and eventually forget about the child's suffering, we can save the child but at the cost of Omelas no longer retaining it’s perfect stature and becoming like every other place on Earth, or we can leave without know where we may end up though it says “The place they go is even less imaginable to …show more content…
You should stay in Omelas because it’s wrong to ruin a society of many over one child, the child would get very little benefit from being saved, and nothing