Essays on The Fluted Girl

In the stories “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin and “The Fluted Girl” by Paolo Bacigalupi, both describe oppressed societies. In the stories it is obvious that there is some type of totalitarianism such as in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, there is a child locked in a closet; the child will not be allowed out for the sake of the city of Omelas. In “The Fluted Girl”, there are two girls who have…...