This text, this child has opened my eyes to see how selfish and greedy we are as a society and has made me sit in reconsideration for hours as to whether I truly practice my morals and has forced me to question whether or not I am the person I aspire to be considering I would have trouble giving up my luxuries in order for a child to be exposed to freedom, food, warmth and much more. We as a society and as individuals tend to close the door on topics such as poverty, slavery, how privileged we are and the reality of how many people live in complete pain and exhaustion in order to provide us with prosperity. In particular, child labour, and how the suffrage of one child leads to the pleasure and luxury of many… in this case the entire town of Omelas. My interpretation of this child and its contrast to the town is in vigorous comparison to third world and first world countries. What I admire about the text is that the author has given the reader the capability to interpret the allegory of this child on their own. However on occasion the door opens, and in its doorway stands one, or many citizens of Omelas who have consequently come to despise the child.
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The child who appears around the age of six is genuinely ten this is due to the lack of food and water this child receives. This child remains in a perturbing state, and is confined to a diminutive basement underneath one of the town’s comely buildings. “The towns happiness is provided by the suffrage of one child. In the middle category, however – that of the unnecessary nor destructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance etc. The authors philosophy on happiness is described as this in the text “Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither unnecessary nor destructive, and what is destructive.
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The story begins with the protagonist explaining the setting for the town of Omela The Festival Of Summer is in occurrence and the protagonist explains the mental and physical state of those who live in Omelas. One of the main focuses throughout the text is the concept of happiness within the town and its people. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas is an allegory in the form of a short story based on an utopian society in which displays philosophical ideologies and theories on society and its relation to scapegoatism.