It just a few pages she asks us to conceive of a utopia, a place where everyone enjoys happiness, the lovely place. Le Guin brings up in her very short 1973 story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. And hold your loud and resounding and outraged NO! for a minute.Ī background - this is what the brilliant Ursula K. But for reasons unspecified, the happiness of all others depe Is the happiness of thousands worth the suffering of a single innocent person? Of one innocent child? Think about that. A background - this is what the brilliant Ursula K. And hold your loud and resounding and outraged NO! for a minute. Is the happiness of thousands worth the suffering of a single innocent person? Of one innocent child? Think about that. Thank you, BTS, for excellent music and for making me add yet more books to my already ridiculously long TBR, lol. And even though I read this because of BTS, I was genuinely intrigued with the story once I learned what it was about and greatly enjoyed it. I think that it is loosely inspired and that they referenced it for this reason. I don't know that their MV is directly based off of this short story. What the MV says to me is simply that suffering does not last forever, it has an end. It's possible to be happy and sad at the same time, and this happens to be exactly how Spring Day makes me feel. For me, what BTS is saying is that suffering and happiness exist side by side in life, which I agree with. I think "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" asks if we can accept suffering as the price of our happiness, but more essentially, I think it asks if happiness can even exist without suffering. I take this to heart with BTS's music videos. It may have no definitive reading." One might even interpret it differently than they meant it, but that makes their interpretation no less true than anyone else's. A story can say different things to different people. Le Guin said in the Afterword of this story that, "n talking about the "meaning" of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. Trying to uncover a definitive and objective meaning is beside the point of art. The songs and the music videos that go with them can mean different things to different people. The songs and the music videos that go with them can mean different things to diffe …more What I love about BTS's MVs is that they're up for interpretation. It requires assistance though, from others who can help, let it be family or friends.Rachel What I love about BTS's MVs is that they're up for interpretation. I am personally conditioned into thinking that those who are down on their luck are completely at fault, until it happened to me and I’ve had the chance to see that when bad things happen to people it is hard, but possible to bounce back. I must agree with Le Guin’s criticism of the contemporary state of the American society because we are numbed to seeing homeless people begging, most of us turn away or by handing out some change we feel that we did our part. They have children of their own, but they don’t associate their own kids with the one suffering because if their child is safe and taken care off, the faith of the one tucked away does not matter, that is the price most of them are willing to pay. For that reason, the people of Omelas must believe that to accept that the boy suffers is the right thing to do, and their reward is to live prosperously in the present. Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive.” Which scene can be found in the …show more content… That is because their reward is awaiting them in the afterlife, while those in power are enjoying life in the moment. “For instance, how about technology? I think that there would be no cars or helicopters in and above the streets this follows from the fact that the people of Omelas are happy people. Therefore, the scene I chose from the story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is: We are prompted in this discussion to articulate our understanding of a repressive ideology, and express its meaning with our own words. According to Tyson, and it is also noted in the assignment that, “an ideology is a belief system, and all belief systems are products of cultural conditioning” (Tyson, p.56).