The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | Overview
The story opens as the celebration of the Festival of Summer is getting under way in the city of Omelas. There is an air of genuine excitement about the festival, with its flag-adorned boats, noisy running children, prancing horses, and "great joyous clanging of the bells." The narrator, who never identifies himself or herself, steps back from describing the scene to comment: "Given a description such as this one tends to make certain assumptions. . . . Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time." However, the narrator hastens to add,...
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