These readings were very interesting, to say the least. “The Lottery,” was about a village that does a lottery and whoever wins gets stoned to death. While “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” was about, to my understanding, a fake or made up happy society by a child that was locked in a closet made possible only due to their lack of happiness.
Both of these stories are sad and pulled my heartstring, but more importantly, talked about leadership roles through literature. For example, “The Lottery,” allows the reader to understand the differences between the importance we place on males between females. This is seen by the interactions between Mr. Summers and Janey as he asks if she did not have a “grown boy” to take her place, inferring that a boy had more power or more authority to take her place.
In the story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” the importance we place on leadership roles to help create structure in a society is evaluated. This is seen as the author begins by illustrating some characteristics of a king, just to say that that leadership role was not needed in the happy society created, which still had structure and function without a clear leader.
Before reading these pieces of literature and viewing them from a leadership perspective, would I have truly seen the importance or the impact narrative literature had on leadership. I truly believe that the way the author sees leadership has an impact on their writing, but the way literature creates leaders makes us reevaluate the way we see leadership.
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