Walking Away From Omelas/Pleasantville

So again for me at least this is another story that was hard for me to really get into. It is just weird to me even though I know it is a made-up city. It is also a little amusing in a way with the things that are described in the short story. A place of happiness and delight sounds like a fairy tale. This story almost sounds like a Narnia type place before the White Witch took over and things got cold and more evil. Everything in this Omelas is pleasing except for this one truth that the city has. Too me it sounds like a super conservative city where they handle a blunt truth because they are too blinded my themselves to listen or believe it. It's like the movie Pleasantville. Everything is black & white and beautiful and perfect. When people come in from a different world with a more realistic perspective on things which make things turn into color. People start getting angry at the change because their world has been a certain way for so long with no worries. A very unrealistic world. When the brother and sister introduce new things into this world the people start getting more and more curious about things. They start realizing there is more to their world than not using bodily functions and not learning about pointless things. The world is more complex than they portray. The world is not just black and white, there is gray.