Some will have all the happiness you can imagine while some will be completely in the dark about everything, silently suffering. The underlying statement in the story for me was showing the reality of the world as it is with people living on extreme ends. They help these individuals for short periods of time but (mostly) aren’t helping them get on their own feet. This can be seen the same way with charity organisations. The author also talks about nobody being there in the room but sometimes some adults or groups of adults show up for a short period of time. Just because they’ve ended up in the situation that they are, it doesn’t mean that they’re not good at anything, it just means that they haven’t been as fortunate as some others. This represents the poor image that homeless/lower-income people have. Furthermore, the author says that the child appears to be five-six years of age but is actually ten. This can be said for many people in today’s world of inequality as well where people believe that they are “above” others simply because of their financial status. Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.The story Omelas was first published in New Dimensions 3, a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won Le Guin the prestigious Hugo. Firstly, the room is in the basement meaning that that the child is “under” the other people. I believe the child in the room represents lower-class individuals who are homeless, etc.
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