Because the child’s suffering made the city happy, people knew that once he was released and fed and warmed, the splendor of the city would go up in smoke. There was a child in it, and no one did not know the child. The door of the room was locked, and there was no Windows. However, the city has an open secret: there is a basement under the castle in the center of the city. Precisely like the utopia world in our text. There is no government, no army, no war, and no crime. There are beautiful mountains and fresh air. In a faraway country, there is a place like Tao Yuanming’s peach garden it is called Omelas. So in the last part of the story, people choose to leave the city. This story tells the life of Omelas, the happiest and most beautiful city in the world, but the whole reason why this city makes people happy is to imprison an innocent child. Le Guin’s, one question that catches my eyes was that: What does the story reveal to us about our happiness as a society? In order to answer this question, we have to first understood what makes up the society that we are living today. After reading “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K.
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