The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

This story is very intriguing on how a society operates on a daily basis. It reminded me alot of the movie called Pleasentville, where everyhting was sort of a Utopian society. The people in Omelas enjoyed a very rich life for the most part but in like every town there are underlining issues that people tend to overlook or ignore. That was definitely the case with how the you child was isolated and treated so horribly. Even though some of the  people went to go check on the child, nothing was done. I believe Omelas and the child are a symbol of how our society is today. People see an issue and as long as it doesn't affect their way of life or "happiness", they will do nothing but stand back and watch from afar hoping someone else does something. At the end of the story it talked about how every now and then people would leave Omelas. Again that is a symbol that those are the individuals in society that will no longer tolerate what it going on around them and remove themselves from the city or situation going unhandled.