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The Perfect Life

‘The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas’ by Ursula Le Guin is a story about a city
where everyone’s happiness is made possible by the sacrifice of one child for the sake of the
group.
The narrator begins the story with a description of a summer festival: “With a clamor of

bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-

towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between

houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of

trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved.�

The use of imagery in the story is very strong; the way that the town is described is very
Detailed and understandable. “Most of the procession have reached the Green Fields by now. A
marvelous smell of cooking goes forth from the red and blue tents of the provisioners. The faces
of small children are amiably......

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Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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