Class 8- Walking away????


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Omelas was a kind utopia were at face value everything was perfect at face value. On paper, Omelas is a picture-perfect world and is very appealing until you hear the darkness behind the picture-perfect world of Omelas. The darkness hangs around the town of Omelas like a dark cloud. Omelas was written during world war 2 and it seems to be relevant to today's world. The people of Omelas knowingly have left a young child in the closet, away from daylight, people and left to sit in your faeces

I feel like my characters would leave Omelas after learning about the darkness behind it. You are sacrificing the lives of one young child for the lives of the many to have a perfect unblemished world. This relates to the way we live now. As we discussed in class, We use a lot of child labour products to cut cost for things such as makeup, technology, clothing and many more. In a way, it's the same thing the people of Omelas are doing by leaving the young child unclothed and trapped in the dark cupboard.

Even though this short story was written many years ago its still relevant because we tend to exploit people in a poor country to fulfil our own needs such as fast fashion and producing our technology. These poorer people that we use to make our products or even filter what we see on social media have been hugely negative affected by our actions. The way we are treating the plant is very smiler to how Omelas is running. Like many people know that using the amount of plastic they are using is wrong but they still keep using it because its easier for us.

I would like my online charter to be able to leave Omels after learning about what the young child is going through. In a perfect world, i would love my online charter to be able to resist the negative effects going on the world. Many of these things I just discussed are hard to resist like buying fast or using technology that exploits children. I would like my online charter to be a better version of myself.
posted 19/12/19

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