https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm Post 2-3 discussion questions Try and make them analysis type questions, not plot based! en-us 2021-01-26 12:46:54 UTC 2026-02-24 03:28:17 UTC hello@padlet.com asim_arnold2356 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1136514897 Does the narrator live in Omelas?
How does the narrator invite the audience to imagine Omelas?]]> 2021-01-28 14:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1136514897 genesishibbler6919 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1136585544 What role does the tormented child play in the story? What's the conflict in the story? Protagonist & antagonist?]]> 2021-01-28 14:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1136585544 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137011638 Who is the narrator? Why do they keep asking if the readers believe them?

Is ignorance truly bliss?]]> 2021-01-28 15:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137011638 elleenakhan2653 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137117222 What is the symbol and the significance of the child in the story? Why does everyone know about him, but no one does anything? 

Who are the people that walk away from the Omelas and why do they walk away]]> 2021-01-28 16:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137117222 evelyncarmichael6525 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137126273 Why have the people become so content, if they know about a suffering child?
Do the people who leave Omelas have any idea of where they would be heading? 
Is having happiness if someone else is suffering worth it?]]> 2021-01-28 16:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137126273 cynthiabui0878 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137156434 Similar to how the Omelas ignore the child who is suffering, what are some examples of how our society choose to ignore those who need help and are suffering at the cost at everyone's happiness.

At the end of the story, it's revealed some people walk away from the cruel reality. Who would those people be in our society?]]> 2021-01-28 16:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137156434 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137172786 Why did the people think that releasing the child would cause no change in the joy and the amount of freedom the child would have experienced either way of being kept locked up or released? ]]> 2021-01-28 16:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137172786 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137177528 How can the people of Omelas justify the treatment of the child and what relationship does the dynamic between the child and people of Omelas resemble in the real world?]]> 2021-01-28 16:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137177528 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137180809 What are the people who leave Omelas trying to accomplish/look for?]]> 2021-01-28 16:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137180809 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137181642 Does the child represent something to the narrator or are they ignorant to the ways of the city?

In what ways does the relationship between the child and the city of Omelas relate to how people look past poverty and crime in the real world?]]> 2021-01-28 16:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137181642 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137189221 Where do the people who leave Omelas go to? And what exactly are they trying to find, within themselves or in society?

Why do the people truly believe that the child's suffering leads to their own happpiness?]]> 2021-01-28 16:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137189221 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137195928 - The child is a symbol for the real world problems that are ignored except when light is shown on the problems until they are no longer relevant to the normal person
- Why do only come people in the town know that there's a child being mistreated in the basement of a building
- ]]> 2021-01-28 16:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137195928 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137203761 If the people wanted to act so badly to help the child then why did no one step up and help at some point?]]> 2021-01-28 16:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1137203761 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1139092644 Who and why do people decide to leave the Omelas?

How are the problems of today depicted in the story?]]> 2021-01-29 01:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1139092644 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1139417517 Do the people of Omelas have good morals if they are happy at the expense of another?
Without the child's suffering will the society collapse or is it all a myth?
How is the child symbolic in the story? ]]> 2021-01-29 04:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1139417517 https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1141536004 Do the people who leave have a certain goal?

What does the child represent to the narrator?]]> 2021-01-29 17:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdaniel_lindsey/vu0szr51u28jb1bm/wish/1141536004