The Ones Who Walks Away From Omelas Summary

In our English 10 class we analyzed the story “The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas” by Ursula Le guin and followed up by answering short answer questions. Ursula Le Guin the author of makes connections to the unresolved issue of human rights violation in her short story. This story takes place in a utopian society during a special occasion known as the Festival of Summer. The swift boom of music was playing rapidly, while the citizens were dancing savoring every great moment of this festival. The narrator describes the city of Omelas as a joyful city. The narrator is known as an outsider who isn't familiar with the city but has a suspicious feeling about it. One thing we learn to find out throughout the story is that the citizens depend

In today's world we are depending on a suffering, neglected, mistreated child and aren't doing anything about it because we know it will affect our society. This connects to the human rights violation of child labor. Children are forced to work at a very young age to support their family. Ursula Le Guin wrote in her story “ That they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children……… depend wholly on this childs abominable misery”. She is saying that without this child suffering the citizens and the city will crumble and fall apart. In our current society we are depending on children making our goods for us. Without these children making our goods our economy will go downhill. This relates to economic globalization cause companies in industrialized countries are buying cheap goods and sending the goods to get made for cheap. Children are considered a cheap source of labor that's why these companies depend on them. We may not even acknowledge it , but we can just go to the store and buy a shirt and a pair of jeans not knowing how much hard work an individual went through making those items. We rely on these little children for our own needs like the idealistic society of Omeles depends on the neglected children for their