In my reading of Ursula Le Guin's "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas," my first thought after I read the story was that would you have the courage to leave ?,While Omelas is being projected as “…Joyus! How is on to tell about joy? How describe the citizens of omelas? They were not simple folk, you see, though they were happy. But we do not say the words of cheer much anymore. All smiles have become archaic. (2-1)“ If I was a citizen of Omelas I wouldn’t stay, I wouldn’t be able to bare the Greif of others, and will not sacrifice my happiness.
“…The trouble is that we have a bad habit encouraged by pedants and sophticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid”(1-2). This can be viewed in different aspects of daily life situations we see here in our own society, We are blinded by the dilemma that exist in our world ( immoral and ethical) , our world which is pictured of in the moment can be a broad thought that can be physically and mentally there , or it may come in considerations and then disappear in a flask!, a perfect example ; millions of dollars may keep you happy, but suffering of a child may not keep you in the same state? This phrase can realte to our society today by Child labor that is done my Nike in third world countries for clothing, shoes etc. The quote below also judges how the life of a child may be seen “…. They know that they, like the, are not free. They know compassion. It is the existence of the child, and their knowledge of its existence, that makes possible the nobility of their architecture, the poignancy of their music the profundity of their science’.(4-2). There are gut feeling to this; there is nothing worth the torture of a child, and there are reactions that the lack of happiness in this one child, but is blinded with the joy that is made up for of the thousands of people living in Omelas. “… they feel disgust, which they had thought themselves superior to. They feel anger, outrage, importance, despite all the explanations. They would like to do something for the child, but there is nothing they can do.” (3-4) , Even if they tried to help the child out, there was nothing that could of helped to help out the child, if they were to help the child in that moment, he may not be able to succeed later on, without any assistance in the future causes that he will face. I seriously believe that walking away would be the right thing to do even it came to the judgment of my happiness. In this world no one will give up their happiness for someone’s Greif . Which defiantly deliberates me to leave!
