The One Who Walks Away From Omelas

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"The One Who Walks Away From Omelas"

In the short story "The One Who Walks Away From Omelas," author Ursula K. Le Guin describes a magnificent, joyous city that appears to be almost perfect. When I was first reading this, it made me think of a city that was somewhere in the orient. I thought this because there were gongs being rung in the city before the parade, "In other streets the music beat faster, a shimmering of gong and tambourine, and other people went dancing, the procession was a dance"(236). I liked the way that the parade was coming out of the city and then going into an open field where the horse race was going to be held.

The whole city seems to be perfect, but they have a secret. In the basement of a

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Approximate Word count = 490
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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