"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

Happiness always has a price.  In Ursula LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," the town was full of pleasant and delightful people.  This town may look perfect, but in reality it really is not.  "Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time" (209).  This describes how the city is not realistic with being all perfect according to the narrator.   In order for people to be happy, they have to make the children miserable.  LeGuin's short story is similar to the movie Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross.  Pleasantville is about a town from the 1950's that is also perfect, but perfection does not last forever.  Two real people from reality ended up in pleasantville and changed this town forever.  Soon this black and white neighborhood become slowly colorful and not as perfect as they were.       






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LeGuin, Ursula K. "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." Literature: An Introduction. 6th ed. Ed. X. J. Kennedy. NY: Longman, 2008. 234-7. Print.