EX:1 Le Guin uses the stark contrast between the idyllic city of Omelas and the suffering child to explore the ethics of societal happiness and the nature of morality. In the reading it stated, “They feel disgust, which they had thought themselves superior to. They feel anger, outrage, impotence, despite all the explanations. They would like to do something for the child. But there is nothing they can do. If the child were brought up into the sunlight out of that vile place, if it were cleaned and fed and comforted, that would be a good thing, indeed; but if it were done, in that day and hour all the…

One example of Toni Morison using ambiguity and the absence of explicit racial markers to explore themes of complexities of race in “Recitatif”, is this quote here, “ We didn’t like each other all that much at first, but nobody else wanted to play with us because we weren’t real orphans with beautiful dead parents in the sky. We were dumped. Even the New York City Puerto Ricans and the upstate Indians ignored us. All kinds of kids were in there, black ones, white ones, even two Koreans.” In context, this quote belongs to the theme of complexities of race due to being excluded by the other races of kids…