Omelas

I really found this story kind of depressing.  I am guessing there is a lot of figurative language because I am not getting it. I sounds like the author is coming up with the story as he goes because he keeps saying "if you would like" or "it will not do" when explaining soldiers he did not want in the story. Its like he is writing the story from the perspective of someone explaining a story they want to write.  Another hard part of this story is the separating I don't know if you noticed, but there were huge paragraphs and the sentences sort of just flowed together.

I would hope that if I lived in Omelas I would be one of the people to leave and go to the mountains because I don't think I could live somewhere where they leave someone locked up only because it is what causes them joy because it reminds them that they are not free and how they treat their children better. 

But now talking to Josh apparently I have it all wrong and that we all create a Utopian society and inside that utopia someone is always left out.  So I don't really know.  Sorry I don't get this story.  But what Josh is explaining and you will probably see in his blog that it is a hyperbole about how some people won't lower themselves in order to help someone else.  Like some Christians may donate money or give food to the homeless, but they will not actually go to them and help them and try to get them shelter and food.  So I guess the people that escape are those people that just run away from it because they still didn't even try to help the boy they escaped in the night and just left to somewhere.  Maybe it was to help others or maybe it is when people step out of that Utopia and go help others in need.  Either way I guess I see both groups not doing so well, but I guess the ones that leave are better then the ones that stay and find joy in the suffering of the boy.