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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Rhetorical Analysis

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In her allegorical story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” Ursula K.Le Guin describes a utopian society where Omelas’ happiness is made possible by the sacrifice of one kid for the good of the group. The analogy uses a wide variety of symbols and visual representations in an effort to convey enduring life lessons like the one of the there can't be happiness without there being suffering. The narrator explains that it is a happy place and the people who live there make a child suffer. According to the story, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, “They all know that it has to be there… they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their …show more content…

Most people end up moving on. However, some don't. Others depart from Omelas.According to the narrative “They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It IS possible that it does not exist.”(Leguin ) What the author means by this is that once the children reach to being teens they would reveal them the secret of the child and some would see them and some of them would get scared and move on and like not care while other decided to move from Omelas completely.The Tone from this would be like insecure since it makes the reader feel like this since they would only tell them once they grew up as well as some would just move to not be a part of what Omelas did to the child, and the mood would be regarding and respectful since the reader can see that some of the people who didn't get over the fact that they used this kid for like their source of happiness as their way of showing respect they walked way to not be like other in a respectful

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