In the short story Those Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin, the author begins by presenting a seemingly beautiful utopia in the midst of a dazzling and joyful celebration.A long one. Background analysis. Le Guin's narrative in Those Who Walk Away from Omelas is characterized by its thought-provoking and introspective nature. It aims to engage readers in a moral and philosophical exploration by presenting a thought-provoking ethical dilemma. The story was first published, at a time of social and political crisis. An analysis of lexical oppositions: “those who move away from Omelas” by Le Guin. The creation of contrasting worlds within a given text is a common literary technique in fictional prose. Although such contrasts are evoked by a kind of "textual" parallelism, the term "parallelism" in literary stylistics is generally reserved.