- Ya category
(a) Problem novel
(b) Initiation and Quest (Journey)
(c) Bildungsroman(溫馨勵志/成長療癒小說)
(d) Fantasy/Adventure (genre) 幻想/冒險
(e) Detective fiction (懸疑/推理小說)
- Review "The One Who Walk Away from Omelas"
1. It is a 1973 short story by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is a philosophical parable with a sparse plot featuring bare and abstract descriptions of characters; the city of Omelas is the primary focus of the narrative.
2. The child in the story: one to suffer for the rest of all
=> Bible / The story of Jesus Christ / 代罪羔羊
3."The central idea of this psychomyth, the scapegoat", writes Le Guin, "turns up in Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov, and several people have asked me, rather suspiciously, why I gave the credit to William James. The fact is, I haven't been able to re-read Dostoyevsky, much as I loved him, since I was twenty-five, and I'd simply forgotten he used the idea. But when I met it in James' 'The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life,' it was with a shock of recognition.᾿
4. Scapegoat: In ancient Greece a cripple or beggar or criminal (the pharmakos) was cast out of the community, either in response to a natural disaster (such as a plague, famine or an invasion) or in response to a calendrical crisis. In the Bible, the goat for Azazel was a goat that was designated (Hebrew לַעֲזָאזֵֽל la-aza'zeyl) to be outcast in the desert as part of the ceremonies of the Day of Atonement, that began during the Exodus with the original Tabernacle and continued through the times of the temples in Jerusalem.
5. The city of Omelas is the primary focus of the narrative: In the story,Omelas is a utopian city of happiness and delight, whose inhabitants are smart and cultured.
6. Everything about Omelas is pleasing, except for the city's one atrocity: the good fortune of Omelas requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth, darkness and misery, and that all her citizens should be told of this upon coming of age.

- You made the choice , you have to take the consequence of it.
- Suffix that stands for people
-ant / -ent : 人 => contestant, protestant, flight attendant, applicant
-ist: 人 => artist
-er / -or: 人=> teacher, actor
- About Ursula K. Le Guin
1. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (US born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography.
2.She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once.
3. She lives in Salem, Oregon. -> Origin of the "Omelas"
- "The rigging of the boat in harbor sparkled with flag."
=> far to near, near to focus. - Procession: keep on going, including the nature changing course.
- shimmer: It's a kind of Onomatopoeia.
- They were very excited => I feel excited / embarassed / bored.
- Five sense: smell, hear, touch, smell, see (watch)
- At time one of the adolescent girls or boys who go to see the child does not go home to weep or rage, does not, in fact, go home at all. Sometimes also a man or a woman much older falls slient for a day or two, and then leaves home.
- They leave Omelas, they walked ahead into darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it is not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the one who walk away from Omelas.
- John Donne- "No Man is an Island"
(http://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.html)
No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Olde English Version
No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man
is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe
is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as
well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine
owne were; any mans death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
-
The Road not Taken By Robbert Frost
(http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-road-not-taken/)Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Lord of Flies
1. Lord of the Flies is a 1954 dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good.
2. In 2005 the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.[3] It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list.
- Cause: Isolation
- Resourse: fair limited ( horn, piggy's glasses) and the unknown beast.
- Climax: 1. identify the unknown beat
2. 英國海軍的出現 - Conflicts: 1. leadership
2. humanity / savage, cruelty
3. minority


