In Ursela K. Le Guin’s short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, she spend quite a few times telling us what Omelas is not. We could see this trend mainly in the beginning of the short story, when she explains the environment of Omelas to the readers. By telling us what Omelas is not, it provides a strategy to connect with the reader’s emotions while reading. By achieving it, she used repetition to provide us a stronger sense of how their society was like. Because she used repetition, it emphasized the importance of the environment and allowed the readers to have a stronger emotion about the place. It was a strategic way chosen by Guin to spend quite a few times telling us what Omelas is not. She used repetition as a literary device to emphasize the setting of the place, and to highlight the traits that Omelas had. Even though, the use of repetition wasn’t her repeating the same thing. She used it as a format to draw attention to how the citizens and society functioned. By telling us unusual information like: “They were not simple folks”, “... there were no kings”, “They were not less complex than us”, and “They…show more content… It can also drive the reader deeper into her descriptive environment. Making the readers feel a kind of emotions that makes them curious about the rest of the text. Having a hold of the reader’s emotion is so that she could have us question and analyze her story with a deeper mindset. Whenever I read a text with emotions, it makes me more engage with the things that is going on. I would start to notice the small details and make connections with either something in the past or from another text. If her attention was to get the reader’s emotions and attention to the details of the text, then it worked really
