2-The+Ones+Who+Walk+Away+From+Omelas



Vocabulary builder: Britani M. Coleman

1 . **Fairy Tale-** Fiction. Not real. A made up story. Almost similar to a fantasy. This word is used to describe Omelas. The person that is describing Omelas says that //Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time.//This placed is described as a happy place. It includes joyful people and just sounds like it's unreal. The reason being is because it sounds perfect. Throughout this whole entire story that is basically what this place is described as.

2 . **Orgy-** W ild, drunken or licentious festivity or revelry. A rowdy party. This word is used when the person describing Omelas and the people. The story says //I fear that Omelas so far strikes some of you as goody-goody. Smiles, bells, parades, horses, bleh. If so, please add an orgy. If an orgy would help, don't hesitate.// They ask you to add an orgy because they are trying to say that the town is not perfect. It is in fact a normal town but just not exactly the same as others. No one wants to make it seem like Omelas is a fairy tale so they try to make it sound like they do mess up a little.

3 . no **Guilt**- a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong,etc.,whether real or imagined. This is used when STILL describing Omelas and everything about it. It says //One Thing I know there is none of in Omelas is guilt//. Then the questioned asked is //what else should there be?// This is the way that Omelas people don't feel. They feel like everything they do is mostly right and they don't change their minds neither.

4 //.// **Amiably-** Friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likable. The kids in Omelas are described as this. They are sweet and just caring. They are like the __perfect__ little children everyone wants. The children are decribed like this but they also try to make it sound like the grown folks are too. They really don't want to admit that they are not in my opinion.

5. **Feeble-minded**- Lacking in intelligence; stupid. It is actually really sad. There is a kid that they call mental and many other things that is locked in a room. This kid is educated but for what he remembers from his mother and they describe him as **feeble-minded.** Which means stupid (as you see in the first sentence). He is fed like a dog and kids hate to see the harmful treatment so they don't visit him/her.

6 . **Paradox**- A statementor proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expr esses possible truth. When kids are old about the horrible treatement of the kid locked in the basement they find it horrific. Some kids actually visit the kid locked in the basement and //when they do they go home in tears, or in a tearless rage, when they see the child and face the terrible// **TRUTH.** It effects them for weeks or years.

7 . **Uncouth**- Awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly. Any one who feels sorry for the kid in the basement soon come to an understanding that they couldn't save the kid. Supposively the kids habits are **unmannerly** to respond to humane treatment. In my opinion if they had never locked him in a room and treated him like a worthless dog then he would never had ended up like that.

8 . **Justice**- The quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness. Apparently locking a kid is described as //justice of reality.// Honestly I don't think so.Locking a kid in a room, with no bed, food out of dog bowls and barley any food at that, no sunlight, no education, and just treated like a worthless dog is inhumane. It is aweful and plain trifling.

9 . **Vile**- Nasty or disgusting. This the word to use to describe the place that the child lives in. He is scared of most of everything in that room. It is nasty and not cleaned up by the child or anyone.

10 . **Leave**- To go out of or away from. This is the word that is used to describe the main basis of this story. When some people see the kids they don't go home to cry or rage, they just leave. They leave without a word of trace or anything. They never come back at all.
 * Level 1,2 and 3 questions**:
 * 1.** How would you describe the town Omelas?
 * 2.** Compare the lives of "normal" kids in Omelas to the kid in the basement?
 * 3.** Judging from this story, do you think your life is a whole lot better than the kid in the basement or not