First of all, I was extremely tired when reading this piece. But, after I managed to pull myself through the first long three pages of boring description I arrived at the interesting point. The first view paragraphs of this piece were more than just extremely boring to me, they made me want to cry. I thought the entire story would be like this and I did not believe I would be able to handle it. Luckily, it was not. The beginning did set up a good start to lead into the finish, but I feel that part of it was little too overly, umm...boring. I do feel that, knowing what happens, if I read this again I would pay more attention to the things she says and the words she uses to describe Omelas. The ending was a changing point for me. Not only did it catch my attention, but it also really upset me. I was very into this story, so I could not get past the idea that this was 'real' and 'happening'! As I proceeded through the story to the end, this made me think about how often people take things for granted and how often people allow things to go unnoticed. But I feel that most of all, this story made me think about the greediness people have and how entirely sad it is. This in turn has me thinking about greed. In my government class, my senior year, we had a small discussion during class about how, no matter how pure of heart someone is trying to be, in the end, every action, every deed, every helpful word is done to benefit one's self. Because no matter what in the back of one's mind, is the happiness he/she will receive from doing the action, deed, or helpful word.
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