A theme is the heart and soul of the story, the very foundation that reflects and defines the main character’s experience, as in “Aguantando” or their thoughts and actions, as in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” The intended moral of the story as well as the conclusion or point of view of the author is expressed through the theme. It is the glue that binds all the other elements of a story altogether. The goal of this paper is to show how suffering affected the characters of the stories. In the story of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, the city was described as a utopian setting with joyful citizens living in abundance, but had an internal suffering because of the existence of a particular being. It is a suffering child imprisoned under the basement in one of the beautiful public buildings of the city (Le Guin par. 8). Everyone knew of this child, but every single citizen of Omelas also knew that their happiness depended on its misery, as cruel as that sounds. Although most of Omelas were fine with this idea for as long as they remain happy, some were not. They had an internal struggle; a feeling of guilt, knowing that as they go on with their normal happy lives and festivities, that child lives in that dark corner of the basement, tormented from pain and isolation from the rest of Omelas. There wasn’t anything that could be done for this child if they were to continue living in prosperity. That was part of the bargain. In Junot Diaz’s