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By far, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas was my favorite story from the summer reading. I feel like this story had quality elements that were easy to relate to in our everyday lives. Are you satisfied knowing that your joy is the product of another ones suffering. Well are you? Think about it. You are in 5th grade and you are hanging out with your friends on the playground. Your cool, your awesome, your popular. Then, one of your friends walks over to another girl on the playground and pushes her to the ground. Now what? All your friends start to snicker but you just feel bothered, upset.


 "The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas." 

So what do you? Do you step out of your comfort zone and help the girl up? Oh, but what if your friends think you are weird for helping the freaky nerd up? Just like the people who walk away from Omelas, you too are heading towards an unknown destiny that may be better or worse from where you came from. Although they are walking away from the unjust actions of the city, is that enough? Even though you didn't physically push the girl down, isn't it just as bad to be the one that just watches?  Just like the people in Omelas, you too are uneasy with the idea of prospering off another persons misery. So, who are you going to be? Are you the one that pushes the girl down, or the one that helps her up.