Read the Anderson and Dostoevsky stories and combine with the Le Guin "Those Who Walk Away from Omalas" and Wilde's "Happy Prince" stories and discuss the common theme along the lines of do unto others.
QUESTIONS
1. Does the narrator live in Ornelas? What do we know about the narrator's society?
2. What is the narrator's opinion of Ornelas? Does the author seem to share that opinion?
3. What is the narrator's attitude toward "the ones who walk away from Omelas?" Would the narrator have been one of those who walked away?
4. How do you account for the narrator's willingness to let us readers add to the story any¬thing we like?-"If au orgy would help, don't hesitate" (paragraph 3). Doesn't Ursula Le Ouin care what her story includes?
5. What does the locked, dark cellar in which the child sits suggest? What other details in the story are suggestive enough to be called symbolic?
6. Do you find in the story any implied criticism of our own society?
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