Compare And Contrast In Cold Blood And The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

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Have you ever wanted to know the deep details of a story and how you can get more information that you would have never known? There are some novels that have a secret meaning to them such as In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursala K. LeGuin. In order to get the deep secret information you have to do some criticism so you can understand it better. The main criticisms for the two novels is Psychoanalytical Criticism. Psychoanalytical Criticism is the focuses on the characters and what is going on internally and their motivations. It can also seek what is going on in the mind of the author. In the book In Cold Blood the author is focusing on what happened in Holcomb, Kansas. This is based on a true story …show more content…

In the short story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, the author describe the city as Joyous! meaning that the people living in the city is always happy and never gets upset or mad about anything not even the smallest thing because they get to do anything they want to to keep themselves happy and the city “flawless.” As the story going on we begin to figure out what the city is really becoming in order to keep everyone in the city happy. Like it said “ They were not simple folk, you see, though they were happy. But we do not say the word of cheer much any more. All smiles have become archaic. Given description such as this one tends to make certain assumptions” (23-5). In this quote the city has a secret that haven’t been release yet. This is letting us know that the city is becoming more and more exposed of how the city is always happy. In the author’s mind she is probably going through a tough time by holding in a secret that cannot yet be told to anyone. Also she is happy on the outside but what really counts is what is on the inside. For example, one of her friend is happy and notice that something was really wrong because she could’ve tell by the way she was acting. She notice that as the day goes by that what happened on the inside is about to come out like releasing a deep dark secret. Then her friend finally told her and it put a relief on her and her friend as well. The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas is a perfect example of depression so you can just do something just to make you happy. Later on in the story the secret was finally out of why the city was really happy. “ A child of nine or ten sits at the edge of the crowd, alone, playing the wooden flute. People pause to listen, and they smile, but they

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