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Detective Report: The Ones who walk away from Omelas.

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Listen: Radiolab, In the Dust of This Planet (https://www(dot)wnycstudios(dot)org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dust-planet). Please listen to the first 15 minutes of this podcast. Follow the link, and hit the "LISTEN" button on the webpage.
For essay one, use Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" to make a comparison to an issue you believe it illuminates in our own lives. Do some research online. For example, former students have connected the isolated child in Omelas to the children in cages at the borders. Others have compared the happiness at the expense of others to iPhones and the exploited workers who make them abroad. But be careful not to be too broad. Use the detectives report to find a narrow focus and connection--one you can create an argument/slant about.
The Radiolab Podcast offers an interesting comparison to Omelas, too. Notice how the "nihilist moment," when the citizens of Alexandria walk away into the desert is a great comparison the nihilist moment that those of Omelas have when they decide to walk away. And just look at where we are right now, with the climate change crisis, Coronovirus, the economic fallout that is occurring because of it... Are we in the middle of a "nihilist moment"?

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Detective Report: The Ones who walk away from Omelas.
Emotion. Perpetual happiness is bleak and boring if not for the knowledge of its opposite. In the setting of Omelas, they have perpetual happiness. Happiness is so normal that they do not know contrast in life. In the story, the author invites the reader to use his or her own imagination but always end up in the conclusion that it doesn’t matter, just think that the Omelas are happy. From this perpetual happiness, is the contrast of loneliness and sadness, and hopelessness. The author’s description of the Omelas people was creative, in the sense that the reader is involved and stimulated to create their own opinion of Omelas. The Omelas people have the capacity to enjoy anything without t...
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