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Most of Omelas’s children react to the suffering child in the same way: first with disgust and anger, then with “tears” over the unjust situation that demands that they turn a blind eye to the child’s suffering. With time, the children learn to justify their inaction towards the child. There is no use for them to dwell in sadness over their inability to help the child, and narrator suggests that the real tragedy is not their personal inaction but the “terrible justice of reality” that forces them to make such a dreadful choice.
In Omelas, this is how children come…