![]() Believing that it was possible to build a society based on love, happiness, peace, and freedom, the counterculture rejected materialism and traditional middle-class values. ![]() A movement that developed largely as a reaction against the war, the counterculture was made up of young people who called themselves hippies or flower children. ![]() The late mid to late 1960s also saw the rise of the “counterculture” in America. A year later, on May 4,1970, four students were killed at Kent State University in Ohio by National Guardsmen during a war protest. ![]() Many young people protested the war, and these demonstrations reached their peak in 1969, when 250,000 people marched in Washington D.C. America’s involvement in the Vietnam War, particularly from 1964 to 1973, caused much domestic unrest. The late 1960s and early 1970s were a time of enormous political, social, and cultural upheaval in the United States, and most likely the events of this period influenced Le Guin’s writing of the story. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas was first published in 1973 in New Directions 3.
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