The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is a story by Ursula K. Le Guin. It won the short story Hugo in 1974. It describes a seeming utopia maintained at the expense of a single tomrented child. It can be found in The Wind's Twelve Quarters. Ursula K. Le Guin at an informal bookstore Q&A session, July 2004 Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929), is an American author. ... The Winds Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin first published by Harper & Row in 1975. ...
Omelas is the fictional city described in the short story The OnesWhoWalkAway From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin.
In the story, Omelas is a city of happiness and delight, whose inhabitants are intelligent, cultured and refined.
Everything about Omelas is pleasing, except for the secret of its happiness: the good fortune of Omelas requires that an unfortunate child be kept in filth, darkness and misery.
Ursula K. Le Guin in her short story “The OnesWhoWalkAway from Omelas” gives us a psychomyth, with the central idea of a martyr, and lets us decide what the end of the story should be.
The martyr of Omelas is clearly seen if one participates in the story and try’s to place the child’s significance to a real life situation.
“to throw away the happiness of thousands for a chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed” (407).
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