The city represents the beauty of the city and the happiness that flourishes throughout it. Some of the symbols in the story is the city, the child, and those who leave Omelas. Le Guin explains in the story that the city Omelas cannot give up their own happiness for that of one young child's happiness, for it would ruin the whole city. The antagonists are the people who cover up the secret of the tortured little boy and those who find out about it, yet do nothing about it. Through her writing, you find out the protagonist are the characters who find out about the city's atrocities and leave Omelas to find their own way to happiness, rather than living with the guilt of the remaining city. Through the strong cheerful imagery the author described earlier, I believe she shows the readers that even though everything looks pretty and cheerful on the outside, there is always something dark inside of everything. The author, Le Guin, shifts the tone of the story from being such a happy, merry city in the first paragraph, to a city holding dark secrets within its walls by the second paragraph. It kind of gave the reader a preview of the story without fully giving away the plot, but giving them enough info to grasp the concept of the people of Omelas in the first paragraph.
The information the author was quite effective because it introduced the reader into a new society just by reaching out to their imagination.
Examples include how the author used the bells ringing in the city, how the streets were organized between buildings, the color of the sky, the cheerful music played by the citizens, the different descriptions of the citizens, and the whole environment. It went into so much detail, describing how beautiful the city was and how merry the people were. The strong imagery portrayed in the first paragraph of the story gave the reader a strong background of the the city and the people who lived there.
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