4-The+Ones+Who+Walk+Away+from+Omelas

== = Extender : Neetu =

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I think this picture of a made up town in a television series very well describes how the town and people get a long in the story. The show is called Gilmore Girls and it is based on a town that the main characters live in called Stars Hollow. If you watch the show, you would know how well everyone gets a long with each other and how traditional everything is. The whole town is like a huge family.
 * If you click on this link it takes you to a video of a now famous duo group founded on YouTube. The guy playing the piano's name is Nick Noonan. If you watch him, he is very similar to the boy that plays the flute. He is so into the music that other distractions don't seem to get to him. Nick is very much like that where he gets so into the music other things probably wouldn't distract him and he doesn't care how he looks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0RIWmyfyhIo

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This is a picture of a rider telling her nervous horse to calm down ( as described on page 4). I couldn't find the exact picture, though in the show full house there is an episode where Michelle Tanner is telling her horse to calm down. This picture describes that situation as the girls did for their horses in the story.


 * The book the House of the Scorpion is describing the situation of the little boy being locked in a room. In the book Matt as a little boy was stranded in a room for being different, he was a clone. Much like the child in this story, he was put inside a room for being different. Both characters are in a room alone and are cry for help but it's no use. They both had mothers and still would know her voice. This has mentally screwed up their mind.

=Neetu's Costa Questions:= = = = Character Tracker: Mickelle = = Mickelle's Costa's Questions =
 * 1) How do you think this child feels being trapped in the room at all times?
 * 2) Do you think this society is as good as it is described to be?
 * 3) Can you think of another situation as to where the situation of the boy is similar?
 * Afraid: The chile kept in the dark room is forever afraid, because of how he has to live, alone, scared, and in the dark.
 * Cruel: The people of Omelas are cruel for how they treat the child who has to live in filth all his life, but they think it is necessary.
 * Courageous: The ones who walk away from Omelas are courageous becasues they leave all they know, all they have ever known because they don't believe in the way one child is being treated, even if it is the only way for every one else to have happiness.
 * Hopeless: Those who see the child but still just go on living like normal feel like it is hopeless to care for the child because they can't do anything for the child because their entire society depends on his miserableness.
 * Glamorous: The people of Omelas are very glamourous in how they live, with their parades and celebrations and how they believe life should be.
 * 1) Why do the people of Omelas hide away one child?
 * 2) What is the society of Omelas like?
 * 3) Do you think it is okay to sacrifice ones persons welfare for the happiness and easy living for everyone else.

** Vocabulary builder: Ann **
Merry- I chose this word because everyone is very happy in Omelas because they dont know or don’t think about the poor child representing evil and pain.

Procession- For the festival of summer that the city of Omelas has every year they follow a procession to the racecourse.

Vile- This is exactly how the child’s conditions could be explained. He lives in a dark cellar with no sunlight, proper clothing, food, or hygiene.

Exuberant- This word describes how the people of Omelas generally act. They are peaceful and they celebrate wholeheartedly

Ignorant- I chose this word because I think that the people of Omelas would have to be rather ignorant to ignore the mistreatment that the child is receiving.

Traditional- I don’t think that the culture and traditions of Omelas has changed much in the past so I would call their society traditional.

Underground- The child was kept in and underground cellar that was dark and musty. This could have affected his health in many ways.

Ironic- I think that it is ironic that the only way that the citizens of Omelas could be happy was by putting a child through such pain and suffering.

Helpless- I chose this word because the child in the story is helpless to the troubles that it is faced with. I don’t think that it could help itself even if it wanted to.

Liberated- The people that leave Omelas are liberated or freed from the guilt that they have been torturing a child from their own happiness.

Ann’s costa questions 1. What is the name of the drug that brings a great lightness and brilliance to the mind and limbs? 2. What kind of health problems do you think the imprisoned child suffers from? 3. If you were from outside Omelas how would you view the people of Omelas? 

=Image Finder: Lisa=

> This is a scared facw showing the fear that people have of the child that is alone in the dark room.
 * [[image:scared_face.jpg]]
 * [[image:room.jpg]]
 * This is a dark and gloomy room, which is what I imagine the room that the boy is in to be like.
 * [[image:harbor.jpg]]
 * This is a beautiful harbor, which is what I feel like the perfect setting is that is described at the begininning of the story.
 * [[image:circus.jpg width="800" height="720"]]
 * This is a circus, with people coming to see animals in cages, which I feel like people coming to see the boy is like this, even though there wasn't that many people that wanted to come and see him
 * [[image:Alone1.jpg width="800" height="800"]]
 * This picture is some one alone, which is how I think the boy felt in the world.

Lisa's Costa's Questions

 * 1) Describe what the Festival of Summer looks like in Omelas.
 * 2) Compare the society of Omelas to that of the one that we have today.
 * 3) Do you think that the world would do the same thing to the boy today if it meant that everyone else is happy?