What is the message of the ones who walk away from Omelas?

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas posits that there can be no happiness without suffering. Even in her imagined city of perfect happiness, LeGuin insists that one child must suffer extreme neglect and torture so the other citizens may experience joy.

What is the function of the suffering child in omelas?

The suffering child in LeGuin’s story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is the scapegoat for the misery of others, so that the others are able to live in comfort and happiness.

How does omelas resemble our current society?

Do we have “a suffering child” on whom our lives depend? Omelas resembles our society because the adolescent children and grown ups are the poor or homeless, and some tend to care for demand some walk away. Our lives depend on the poor people because for the wealthier people they need that poor person to be above.

Where do the ones who walk away from Omelas go?

“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back,” she writes. “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.

How many pages does the ones who walk away from Omelas have?

31