tter for the following year (Jackson 296, 299, 300). Everyone in the town bases their happiness off of the death of this person.
             In Omelas, everyone is very happy. Anything that one could imagine to bring joy and happiness takes place in Omelas. LeGuin uses the majority of the story to try and convince the reader that Omelas does exist and is so joyous (278), also LeGuin talks about how hard it is to describe the joy and happiness that occurs in Omelas because everyone has a different definition of joy and happiness (LeGuin 279). To make it easier, LeGuin says the reader may picture it however he or she would like to (279). However, Omelas is not all perfection, for all of the joy in Omelas to occur there is a child that must suffer. (LeGuin 281). LeGuin describes the situation in which this child lives as a basement with one door and no window (281). This room is very small, has a floor of dirt, a bucket with mops and the child's excretions (281). Somewhere between the ages of eight and twelve children of Omelas learn about the child. (LeGuin 282) The children are then taken to see the child. (LeGuin, 282). LeGuin's description of the child helps the readers understand the extent of how horrible the child's situation is. Similar to how LeGuin described the town's joyousness, LeGuin goes into specific details about the child's life; such as, how the child can no longer speak, the extreme thinness of the child except for a protruding belly, and the sores that cover the child's naked body (281). LeGuin explains that all people of Omelas know that their town is wonderful because this child suffers and lives in this horrific situation (282). The people of Omelas know "there is nothing they can do. If the child were brought up into the sunlight out of that vile place, if it were cleaned and fed and comforted, that would be a good thing indeed; but if it were done, in that day and hour all the prosperity...