Discuss the varying ways happiness is described in the text.Just a reminder that you should make your at least one comment (just hit “reply,” either to my original post or to another comment on it) by Sunday (3/2).The Omelas Institute is a think tank for social enquiry and progressive policy. Our lives depend on the poor people because for the wealthier people they need that poor person to be above. Omelas resembles our society because the adolescent children and grown ups are the poor or homeless, and some tend to care for demand some walk away.
Discuss the characterization of the child in the room (and perhaps compare it to the boy flute player at the top of p. 6)? How have things changed in the story (and the readers’ perception of it) by the time the questions are asked the second time around towards the end of the story? Why does the narrator keep asking the readers if they believe him/her (middle p. How does the narrator invite the reader (“you”) to imagine the utopian city of Omelas (2-3)? Why does the narrator want the reader to co-create this utopia? What purpose might it serve in the context of what happens later in the text? Discuss the varying ways happiness is described in the text.
Explore one (or more) of the items on the Utopian/Dystopian Framework within the context of this short story.This entry was posted in Announcements, Class Discussion, Le Guin by Jill Belli. Explore how an element of fiction (or multiple ones) plays out in the text. Why do some people walk away from Omelas? Who are these people? Where do they go? Can you think if any analogy of the child in the room in our society? If so, who is the child, and who suffers at its expense? Is ignorance bliss? Would the people in the story be better off not knowing of its existence? What would be gained from this ignorance? What would be lost? Is it possible to have a happy/good/just society at the expense of someone else?
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