![]() ![]() It is also notable for containing a vagueness uncharacteristic of many short story writers its narrator leaves it up to the reader to imagine many of the town’s details and characters. Le Guin is known primarily as a science fiction and fantasy writer, and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is notable for being one of the few short stories of the genre to be widely anthologized in collections of general fiction. It was subsequently printed in her short story collection The Wind’s Twelve Quarters in 1975. “Omelas” was first published in the magazine New Directions in 1973, and the following year it won Le Guin the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story. ![]() In an allegory, many symbols and images are used in an attempt to illustrate universal truths about life. Le Guin’s allegorical tale about a Utopian society in which Omelas’ happiness is made possible by the sacrifice of one child for the sake of the group. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is Ursula K. ![]()
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