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http://www.mccc.edu/pdf/eng102/Week%209/Text_LeGuin%20Ursula_Ones%20Who%20Walk%20Away%20From%20Omelas.pdf http://www.mccc.edu/pdf/eng102/Week%209/Text_LeGuin%20

• zwieback 9y ago
  Wow, that's great and horrifying.
• neaden 9y ago
  If we are doing short stories I think She Unames Them is another good work at a single page. https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/s/smcmahon/courses/hist249/readingguide/files/leguin-unnames.pdf https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/s/smcmahon/courses/hist249/r...
• ambrosite 9y ago
  I see this story as a kind of thought experiment about the way in which societies treat minority groups. There have been many societies that felt the oppression of a minority was justified, or even necessary, in exchange for the greater good of the society. This story takes that idea to its logical extreme: a perfect society, with unlimited health and happiness for all, in exchange for the complete and utter oppression and degradation of the smallest possible minority -- a minority of one. Is it still justified? The people who feel it is not are "the ones who walk away from Omelas."
  • eeZah7Ux 9y ago
    > There have been many societies that felt the oppression of a minority was justified "have been"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality