The author has created an idyllic image of utopia even leaving readers free to add perfect details that leave the reader curious to explore the reason behind such joy. The Omelas never answer because their utopia has been grounded on its suffering and it shows their selfish nature. I will be good!” They never answer.” (Guin, 1973, p.3). Spending its life affected by malnutrition still begs for the end of the suffering “I will be good,” it says. The story lacks any personal information about the child because it was given none. The child has not been allowed socialization or nourishment. Not giving it specific gender further proves that the child has been the awful secret of Omelas, which everybody knows. Exclusive use of ‘it’ unveils how the child has been an object to the society of Omelas. Moreover, the gender of the child is not exactly told. Its buttocks and thighs are a mass of festered sores, as it sits in its own excrement continually.” (Guin, 1973, p.3) she has given exact details about the child’s miserable life leaving no room for justifying the dreadful suffering of the child. “It lives on a half-bowl of corn meal and greases a day. Whereas her tone shifts in the other half of the story Ursula has left no room to imagine the devastating situation of the child. The author lets the reader create a utopian society of Omelas themselves in the beginning. Thus, its reality has been changing with each reader. “I do not know the rules and laws of their society,” this reveals that the narrator is not sure of the reality of utopia and its reality depends on the reader. Because the conditional clause reflects that idea of this utopia is not well-grounded in the narrator’s mind.
To strengthen her point here she has used conditional clauses while talking about the imaginary Omelas, which instead has made the author unreliable. This expresses that Omelas exists only the way readers anticipate for themselves. I wish I could convince you….for certainly I cannot suit you all.” (Guin, 1973, p.1). The author writes “O miracle! but I wish I could describe it better. As well as there are points in the story where an author wishes if she could describe the utopia more effectively and prudently. “Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time.” (Guin, 1973, p.1) and a part of this invitation to the reader is because Omelas is an imaginary city as it has been said in this sentence. She makes direct contact with the reader when she invites readers to fill in perfect details about utopia as it suits them. And her objective approach accomplishes this goal. Furthermore, she has appealed to ethos to sound fair and build credibility in eyes of the reader. Ursula has used third person narrative to present herself as unbiased and fair. And finally shows people walking over morality to taste happiness. This grounds the concept of individual versus society later in the story. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.” (Guin, 1973, p.1) the author has clearly stated how we take happiness for granted and romanticize suffering as something to enjoy more. “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. A festival where people have been coming from different places to witness the perfect happiness of Omelas, which is considered to be very simple to have.
“Far off to the north and west the mountains stood up half encircling Omelas on her bay.” (Guin, 1973, p.1), this vividly shows her technique to construct a scenario of the festival. Moreover, she has used an objective approach at the beginning of the story and has introduced the utopia with the help of a festival. The author wants us to envision the perfect society the way we want when she says “Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids,” (Guin, 1973, p.1). The author has picked on an imaginary utopian society to reveal the cost one has to pay for perfect happiness: the nature of people to reject morality and suppress the weak has also been discussed through sensory deprivation and the suffering of a child. The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K.Le Guin has been published in 1973.