This story reminded of a TV show called True Detective. There
is an episode of this TV show called “A Dream”, and during that episode there
is a scene when the main character talks about a locked room. He says “All your
life, all your love, all of your hate, all of your memory, it was all the same
thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A
dream about being a person.” This alludes to the boy in that locked room, and
how he had no understanding of time. He wasn't even a person. He was a symbol
for the people of Omelas. So that they could live in happiness and not have to
feel trapped by their society. And sure enough their were people that saw this
boy and realized, “Hey maybe I don't have to live out this script like it was
planned, maybe I will write my own life script and live it out.”
The
people that leave the society, all of em, they left on their own. They didn't
go to their friends and say we gotta get out this place. No. That's not what
writing your own script is about. “I cannot describe it at all. It is possible
that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going. The people
that walk away from Omelas.” What I think this means is that the people who
stay in Omelas aren’t really living their own life. They are living what is
planned out for them. The people that walk away are the ones who choose their
own fate. They are the ones who aren’t going to live inside of a locked room,
because in a way if all the people of Omelas live in happiness all the time,
they aren’t actually happy.
They
think their happy but they don't know for sure. How does anyone know what
happiness is without pain. And the irony of it is that the only thing that that
10 year old understands is pain, hunger, and darkness. That ten year old boy
has no understanding of time because all he knows are these three things. The
people on the outside, living in quote on quote happiness don't really know
what happiness is. All they know is that its better than being in a locked room.
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