Go to a dictionary, and look up the word “parable.”
Parable-a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
Go to Writer's Reference/Writer's Help. Read (study carefully) the entire section on “MLA IN-TEXT CITATIONS” (212-218). Identify the in-text citation format appropriate for a dictionary citation. (At this point, do not worry about creating a Works Cited section with which to link your in-text citation. For your final essay, a research paper, we will discuss how to create—and link in-text citations with—a Works Cited section.) Typing on this worksheet, quote or paraphrase the definition, and use proper in-text citation technique to cite your source:
"parable." Dictionary.com Unabridges. Random House, Inc. 15 Oct. 2011. .
As you should have learned from your research on the definition of “parable,” every parable bears a moral lesson or symbolic message. The remaining exercises on this worksheet are designed to help you identify the moral lesson / symbolic message of Le Guin’s parable.
Le Guin writes: “The terms are strict and absolute; there may not even be a kind word spoken to the child” (861).
Describe (i.e., identify, or give an accurate report of, but do not express an opinion on) what this sentence says about the story’s portrayal of the people of Omelas, their belief system, mindset and way of life.
This quote shows that the people of Omelas can't even bring theirselves to say a kind word to the child because he is the alleged deprived and negative one in the whole town. The people of Omelas believe that things like beer and sex are permitted to bring happiness, and that guilt is not allowed and will bring nothing but sadness. The people are Omela are not simple, but happy. If they would take the child out of the place he hides, then they would be letting guilt into the city.
Analyze the logic that, as the sentence indicates, tells the people in the story to behave without mercy
