What is the climax of the one who walk away from omelas?

Answer 1

I believe the climax is the young child staying locked in the supplies room because if you think about it the problem is never solved. The whole story is trying to send you a message about happiness, morality, and victimization. In the story, the child is kind of like the scapegoat, bearing total unhappiness and misery for the "the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of

their skies, [depend wholly on this child's abominable misery.]"

"It is the existence of the child, and their knowledge of its existence, that makes possible the nobility of their architecture, the poignancy of their music, the profundity of

their science. "The climax in the story is the child's misery. Some of the town's people understand why they must live this way while others don't. Others choose to leave the city. "They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. "

So we ask ourselves, which way are we actually guilty?

"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

That is why there are 'the ones who walk away from Omelas'

They choose not to answer this.