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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Summary & Study Guide Description
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' "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" opens as the celebration of the Festival of Summer is getting underway in the city of Omelas. There is an air of genuine excitement about the festival, with its flag-adorned boats, noisy running children, prancing horses, and "great joyous clanging of the bells."
The narrator, who never identifies him or herself, steps back from describing the scene to comment that, "Given a description such as this one tends to make certain assumptions.... Omelas sounds in ray words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time."
However, the narrator hastens to add, the people of Omelas "were not barbarians. I do not know the rules and laws of their society, but I suspect they were singularly few." The people of Omelas are happy, and the narrator explains his or her belief that "we"...
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