The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

When I started to read this passage, I didn't understand where it was going. It was describing this perfect place in real detail. I thought that the whole story was going to be like that. I am one for detail but sometimes it's just to much. About two thirds of the way through, it got really interesting and pulled me in. I wonder what the people who are doing this think. What make them do what they do and how it came to be. These people think that they are torturing for the common welfare of everyone. No one needs to be sacrificed at the expense of someone else. Everyone see's this going on and nobody does anything about it. The ones who are so affected by just leave and never come back. I wonder where they go and what becomes of them. It makes me mad in this book and in real life when people see things that are clearly wrong and do nothing. I have done this and after reading this passage, I want to make a point to step up when the time comes. Not be afraid and follow the paths of everyone else. I want to go upstream while everyone else is heading down.