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    <title>The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the author acheive by the changes in tense throughout the story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does the author acheive by the changes in tense throughout the story?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else&quot;Le Guin write a compelling story in which she really gets humans to consider their attitude towards joy.  Why are we so wary of happiness, so suspicious of things being &quot;too good to be true&quot;?  In this &quot;Utopian&quot; society, she suggests that happiness is worthy of sacrifice.  By using sentences like this, Le Guin is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:14:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think the narrator wants us to participate to build our own city of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the narrator wants us to participate to build our own city of Omelas with our imagination. Omelas will be our own dream  perfect place.You will notice however, after the narrator mentioned about the boy, she stop inviting us to the story. I think it's because that we suppose to be 'shocked' because then we will think what would we do if we were one of them. Would we stay? Or leave? In this way of writing, the author purpose to make...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:02:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Where is the key sentence in the story that tells about the theme of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Where is the key sentence in the story that tells about the theme of the story, &quot;The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:56:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I can understand your confusion.  Omelas does not seem like a utopia...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I can understand your confusion.  Omelas does not seem like a utopia because they are sacrificing a child.  However, it does qualify.  It is utopian because the people are happy.  The conditional description by the author which fails to develop the &quot;perfect&quot; parts of the society is necessary.  She is focusing only on the central core of utopia, that the people who live in live happily.This is necessary to the story.  The people...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:39:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What would make it different if Omelas was not a Utopian Society? ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What would make it different if Omelas was not a Utopian Society? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:27:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The response to this question is to identify the conflict of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The response to this question is to identify the conflict of the story.  This story is a Utopian story that presents a perfect world.  However, in order to live in that perfect world, a person must sacrifice a child.  To ascribe to the ethical code is to commit the sacrifice.  To conflict with the code is to walk away.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:40:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think they don't really know where they're going but I guess they're...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think they don't really know where they're going but I guess they're just trying to go to other place where there's justice, not like Omelas.  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:15:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What would a person that ascribed to that ethical code do if they live...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What would a person that ascribed to that ethical code do if they live in Omelas?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:08:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good question. The narrator in Leguin's lovely story is intrusive for...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Good question. The narrator in Leguin's lovely story is intrusive for the same reasons that the story's early sections has the overall construction it does: to keep the usual fictional dream from fully embracing us. Like some plays that break the third wall of the theater to shock the audience and keep them from treating the play as pure entertainment, these elements of the story should accept its constructed nature. As readers we should...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:57:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Le Guin create a narrator who is intrusive?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Le Guin create a narrator who is intrusive?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:38:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Where are &quot;the ones who walk away from Omelas&quot; going? ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Where are &quot;the ones who walk away from Omelas&quot; going? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:13:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The answer depends on your personal point of view and the kind of person...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The answer depends on your personal point of view and the kind of person you are. Are you the type of person who could be happy living in the &quot;Utopian&quot; town of Omelas knowing that a child must suffer in order for you to be happy? Or, would it be impossible for you to be happy under these circumstances? This is the big question! What price are you willing to pay to have the ideal life? Is the happiness of thousands worth more than the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:28:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does this story fit in with the group dynamics (group think) that we...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does this story fit in with the group dynamics (group think) that we read about in Social Psychology? Would you walk away or not?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:59:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This story is an allegory that is both political and religious. An...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This story is an allegory that is both political and religious. An allegory uses the characters to symbolize objects or ideas that tell the reader the author's message.

The political message in this story deals with the issue of morality in governments. The child respresents the powerless poor in Western societies, such as the U.S., and in third-world countries. Both of these groups are misused by the political systems and ignored by the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:04:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are symbols in the story and what do they mean?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are symbols in the story and what do they mean?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:56:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No. Or rather, no, they didn't walk away because they were intrinsically...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[No. Or rather, no, they didn't walk away because they were intrinsically unhappy, but rather because they were unwilling to take part in a system that depending on another's suffering. They were happy with their choices, even though they didn't know what their fates would be.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:07:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In those who walked away from Omelas. Did they walk away becasue they...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In those who walked away from Omelas. Did they walk away becasue they were depressed and unhappy people?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:05:19 PST</pubDate>
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