The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas ~ Reflection

I found the story disturbing. A whole community of people turn their backs and forsake one child for the sake of their own happiness. How selfish.

This first part of the story describes the Festive of Summer.  "In the streets... Processions moved. . .  The music beat . . . And the people danced." As I read this section of the story I imagined a great festival, of all the colors and noises, and I though of gallons. Lots of ballons. 

I continued reading the story until I reached the part about the small captive child. "The room is about three paces log and two wide...in the room the child is sitting." This made me think of a cage.

"They all know it is there, the people of Omelas. . . They all know it has to be there." This is the reason the sculpture s displayed upside down.

The Easter eggs are though of as balloons. They are clear so that you can clearly see that they have nothing on the inside. They are empty, devoid of real meaning. The cage is black on the inside and contains the purple egg, with repreces the small neglected child. The colorful, outside of the smaller cage and te larger geometric cage are attempts to detract from the truth of what is going on. The purple egg that is inside the cage contains the ring that holds up the intire group of eggs. The whole sculpture is hung upside down for this reason: the child is keeping the whole society from collapsing.