After reading the article “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, I am really shocked by the description of the imprisoned child. Comparing to the beautiful picture of Omelas depicted in the first few paragraphs, the life of the feeble-minded child is so miserable. I even could not believe in it, and the initial description of Omelas seems a little bit ridiculous.
The first ridiculous thing to me is that people of Omelas take the imprisoned child as sure, though some of them have misery hearts and feel sad and anger about the poor child’s life. The author said that it is the existence of the child that makes their life such beautiful and such happy. But I do not think that is the true ideas of the author, instead, I believe the author want to remind readers that this is not reasonable and the beautiful life is not true.
The second ridiculous thing of the child is that some people who go to see the child go away from Omelas. If they really feel sad or rage about the child, why do they just save the child instead of going away? And this induce the next important question which is where do these people go? If this story depicted about a real world, people are usually impossible just to go away without telling their parents.
So I believe that the Omelas is not a real place and the author want to express her feeling or her ideas with the allegory images.
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