“Findings” also focuses on relationships, namely those between mother and daughter, and between father and son. They center on the desire of people to amount to something more than what their parents were, to travel and to experience things, and to escape from the lives they led previously. She describes a set of stories written by a two unidentified people, stories that seem at first to be completely unrelated but really have a lot of parallels. In “Findings,” Le Guin takes the idea of perspective and includes it in the story…literally. The author does the same in another of her stories: “Findings.” By writing in the style in which she has, and from the perspective that she has, Le Guin has successfully made the feeling of emotion, into an art form. She has created a world that the reader can picture despite the unreality of its content. Friedman unknowingly captures the essence of Le Guin’s writing perfectly.
There is nothing to keep the author from choosing any of them, or from shifting from one to the other as often or rarely as he pleases.” (1171). The story may be seen from any or all angles at will: from a godlike vantage point beyond time and place, from the center, the periphery, or front. The utilization of perspective in Le Guin’s fiction is best emphasized by this quote from Norman Friedman: “Here ‘omniscience’ signifies literally a completely unlimited - and hence difficult to control - perspective. This technique makes the reader feel like they can truly see the city of Omelas and that they can understand why the people who reside there are able to live so happily even when they know the reason for their happiness. Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion, for certainly I cannot suit you all.” (455). Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time. O miracle! but I wish I could describe it better. They were mature, intelligent, passionate adults whose lives were not wretched. Le Guin uses a 3rd person omniscient perspective in “Omelas” that drifts at times to 1st person when she addresses her audience, as if she were reading the story aloud to a large group: “How can I tell you about the people of Omelas? They were not naïve and happy children - though their children were, in fact, happy. They either accept this fact, or they walk away from Omelas. The people of Omelas must come to understand that if they help the boy, they will condemn their beautiful city to a quick demise. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” the reader is thrown into a seemingly unbelievable world where the people’s total and incorruptible happiness, one that is “no vapid, irresponsible happiness,” (Le Guin 458) is due completely to the dismal existence of one malnourished, mistreated little boy. Therefore, perspective in Le Guin’s stories is of the utmost importance because, in order to achieve such a reaction from her readers, the author must write so that the reader can see from the perspective of the characters and feel their emotions intensely. One cannot simply read “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” or “Findings ” these stories must be inhaled and experienced. Le Guin forces the reader to partake in the story.
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Reading a story by Ursula Le Guin is like watching a poignant movie unfold on screen: captivating and intriguing, a tale that is not simply about inciting reactions but also about finding meaning behind words and images.
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