37 Questions for Omelas

37 Questions for Omelas

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Thoughts and questions about "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" from Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

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Question 12: Where is the Basement in Omelas?

The basement is introduced before the child.
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Question 18: Who Aren't the People of Omelas?

Le Guin tells us as much about who the people of Omelas aren't as who they are.
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Question 26: Why is the Child of Undetermined Gender?

Le Guin refers to The Child as "it" -
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Question 28: What if the Child of Omelas Is Evil?

The child is described as innocent, but what if -
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Question 36: Why is the Child a Child?

What if it weren't a child?
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Question 31: Why does Le Guin look to us for validation?

Do you believe?
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Question 16: Who are the parents of the child?

What did the parents do when someone came to collect the child?
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Question 22: What is the Treason of the Artist?

Seriously, what is it?
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Question 30: Why the Procession of Omelas?

The Festival of Summer involves some processing -
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Question 23: What is the Sin of Omelas?

Guilt on guilt - what is guilt?
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Question 5: What is the Path to Violence in Omelas?

Can we praise despair and condemn delight?
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Question 24: Why are there no names in Omelas?

Manny Oddbottom, perhaps?
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Question 25: Who is the Flute Player?

Bet that was awkward!
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Question 20: What do the Mops of Omelas Say?

Janice and Yvette? Frog and Toad? Hope and Charity?
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Question 21: Who Grows Wheat in Omelas?

A parable for a parable.
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Question 10: What is Omelas without the Long Paragraph?

It is a LONG paragraph -
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Question 7: What Happens when the Child Dies?

Have they thought ahead?
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Question 11: What is a Paragraph to Le Guin?

How the story is told-
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Question 27: What if The Child is the King or Queen?

How to treat your monarch-
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Question 32: Is Omelas about Capitalism?

Is The Child the means of production-
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Question 33: Is Omelas about Animal Rights?

One third of the world-
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Question 34: Is Omelas about The Lord of the Flies?

Are we looking at the right story-
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Question 17: What Does the Child Say?

We're mostly talking about them.
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Question 35: Should You Read Omelas?

Well - maybe -
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Question 29: Who is the Architect of Omelas?

In the preface to Omelas in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Le Guin quotes William James as the inspiration for the story. I can’t make ... Read Chapter

Question 8: Why Have All Smiles Become Archaic?

All smiles? Even shy ones?
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Question 9: What is a Just Discrimination?

How just can it be?
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Question 13: Is it Omelas - To the Stars?

I don’t remember whether I read The Wind’s Twelve Quarters when I was a kid and I don’t remember Omelas. Le Guin is one of the auth... Read Chapter

Question 14: Are the People of Omelas Also Victims?

The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach” takes on the same issue addressed in Omelas. The p... Read Chapter

Question 15: Who Walks Away from Majalis?

The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach” shows up the planet Majalis, which has its own chi... Read Chapter

Question 19: Who Walks Back to Omelas?

In the Omelas story, no one walks away - and then comes back to Omelas. That is a situation to think about. The Walkers give ... Read Chapter

Question 6: Why is the Paradox Terrible?

Le Guin describes the young people visiting The Child as facing a terrible paradox. I want to unpack that a little. Sometimes an impres... Read Chapter

Question 1: Would You Walk Away from Omelas?

The big question -
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Question 2: Should you walk away from Omelas?

There are people - in our world, not Omelas - who don’t eat beef in order to decrease the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global ... Read Chapter

Question 3: Really, Should You Walk Away from Omelas?

There are people - in our world, not Omelas - who don’t eat beef in order to decrease the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global ... Read Chapter

Question 4: Where are the Walkers Walking to?

Maybe it's Madison, Wisconsin.
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Question 37: Can You Improve Omelas without Leaving it?

Our final question -
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