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Utopia is any state, condition, or place of ideal perfection. In Ursula LeGuin’s short story "elas" the city of Omelas is described as a utopia. "elas" presents a challenge of conscience for anyone who chooses to live in Omelas. Omelas is described by the ....

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.... in them?"(879) Asking if the reader believes what the narrator says about the festival, city, and joy of the people of Omelas implies that the reader should have doubts. Can the narrator be trusted by a reader who is being asked to approve the details of the story? Such questions raise doubts in the reader’s mind about what the narrator is conveying. With the help of the reader, the narrator makes Omelas appealing to everyone. "Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time"(LeGuin 876). Omelas does sound too good to be true. While the narrator is saying all that Omelas has and does not h ....