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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Analysis

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When it comes down to evaluating short stories from two different authors it is ideal to bear in mind that the two stories will have varying strengths and weaknesses, mostly concerning the use of different literary elements, over the other one. For example, Ursula K. Le Guin 's “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” deals mostly with tone, point of view, and symbols. On the other hand Octavio Paz’s “My Life With The Wave” puts more emphasis on plot, characters, and individual scenes and events. As has been stated before both stories excel in different categories which make them strong in their own right, each particular strength and weakness will be looked at thoroughly in this essay. To kick the comparisons off we will first be looking at the literary elements present in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”. The most prominent literary elements present in this story, as stated in the opening paragraph, are: tone, point of view, and symbols. The tone that is adopted in this story is one of eeriness and also poetic in how the town of Omelas and that of its denizens are characterized. The town of Omelas is described in a very fairy like manner, “The air of the morning was so clear that the snow still crowning the Eighteen Peaks burned with white gold-fire across the miles of sunlit air, under the dark blue of the sky” from these descriptions it is not unreasonable to suggest that the quality of life for the citizens of Omelas to be very high. With the spring festival underway

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