"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

Wow, this short story is amazing, the way the author writes keeps my interested and the moral of the story makes me think. In the beginning Le Guin makes this place sound like a utopia of some sorts, where nobody is judged and hapiness is seen everyday in the faces of everybody. As the story goes on and they all head to The Festival of Summer it just makes the communityof Omelas seem well put together and gives you the picture of a "perfect" community. Le Guin says guilt means nothing in this town but I think he is mistaken. Guilt is the look on all the faces ofter they see what the young child goes through in the cellar so that they may all live in this utopia. Guilt is what runs through the minds of the people who walk away from Omelas and go to the undescribable place because they know that staying will only cause more harm to the young child in the cellar. To me, this story makes me think alot about other people's suffering. We live our lives day to day and try to make things as "perfect" as they can be for us, but what we don't think about is what we could be doing for the "young children locked in a cellar" of our society. If we could take time out of our search fpr perfection and "leave Omelas" we could be helping an uncountable number of people in the world that need us.