Leguins Omelas

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accept the conditions that Omelas “happily” lives under. The plot then allows enough room for the reader to imagine the living conditions under which the child lives in with “a little light seeping in dustily between cracks in the boards.”
The characters, though not drawn out in much detail, have such personalities as to make them recognizable in our own lives. Le Guin utilizes broad terms such as “the youths and girls, the merry women, old people and master workmen.” By using general identities for these characters, we fill in the gaps with our own imagination molding them to fit people known in our lives. Even the child in the basement was only a “child” and the “boys and girls” ran around naked with “mudstained feet and ankles.” As much as she may shift to one character, Le Guin never gave more than a few vague details about that character’s description. This was played and replayed throughout ...

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