The one who walks away from Omelas (Dystopia)
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.
→ 長大後會被告知的事情

After being exposed to the truth, most of the people of Omelas are initially shocked and disgusted, but are ultimately able to come to terms with the fact and resolve to live their lives in such a manner as to make the suffering of the unfortunate child worth it.

However, a few of the citizens, young and old, silently walk away from the city, and no one knows where they go.

"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.“

•   The quote from William James is:

             Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which       Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's utopias should all    be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of     things should lead a life of lonely torture, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a      thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the       fruit of such a bargain?
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Text
moss-grown 長青苔
processions-keep going, moving step
生命的律動,遊行的隊伍,時間就會發生
flutter 風啪啪的聲音

No man is an island   John Donne
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee.
→ 沒有人在我們的生命中是不重要的,缺少誰都不完整,每個人都有關連性
→ 海明威最後引用在戰地鐘聲

The Road Not Taken  Robert Frost
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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Lord of the flies
main characters:
protagonist: Ralph
antagonist: Jack

Conflict:
leadership: glasses, conch shell
humanity
minority
short film: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/