Essay about With the Guest by Andrew Camus: The Character of Daru

Furthermore, both Neruda and Camus depict a similar situation to where one country came to another country for resource purposes. However, sometimes the guest can be resourceful to host country. Resourceful by providing education, technology, healthcare, and an act of kindness to a third world country. Sometimes it can be only one person taking care of someone in need, it does not have to be a whole nations come to an aid. Author Camus want to show a similar situation in his short story “The Guest,” where the character Daru, a teacher in Algeria, had to help the guest who was a native and a criminal. Camus states that Daru “When he held out the glass of tea to the prisoner, Daru hesitated at the sight of his bound hands” (819). By stating this

made his decisions justified because it did not give anyone a chance to find out

instance, he could have opened his mind to others ' ways of thinking or take a vote

The Guest is a short story written by Albert Camus and first published as a part of the collection Exile and the Kingdom in 1957. The main character of the story is a teacher in a remote school Daru. The man was alone because of the snowfall, until gendarme Balducci with the apprehended Arabic person appeared. Daru was asked to take prisoner to a nearby town Tinguit where he would be tried for relative’s murder. The teacher did not want to take part in these events, but Balducci still left Arab in the school. Daru did not treat the man like a prisoner. In the morning he took Arab outside, gave him money with food, explained how to reach Tinguit or nomads and gave him an opportunity to choose his own fate. The teacher

by choice of leadership, putting his men in danger , and thinking one way but not searching for

Loyalty and Betrayal among Friends Khalad Hassini has written many books and is a much achieved author. He was born on March 4, 1965 in Kabul Afghanistan. He was raised there until he was 11 years old and then moved to France. As a child, he read a lot of Persian poetry and this is what inspired him to be an author today. He has many books but his most famous is The Kite Runner.

you can read more about him online. Reading about him taught some people a lot

showed his open mind, and the fact that he came to the understanding he had to change, helped

everything he wanted by the powers he had. He also had a friend he gave food and drinks to

detail of how his life was, and who he really was. But like all great stories, they all

Life is full of challenges made to test one’s integrity. It is impossible for one to live life without encountering a decision that questions their identity. This test of character ultimately shows what kind of person one truly is. When faced with challenges an individual can react in a plethora of ways. Like in the story “The Guest” by Albert Camus, the main character, Daru is given the orders to take a man accused of murder to jail. Unknowingly to Daru, the prisoner comes from poverty and does not understand the extent of his actions. Daru has the choice of either taking the man to prison or setting him free, but he chooses neither and decides to let the Arab decide for himself. Daru’s choice is his way of dodging the issue and avoiding the

While studying many works of literature, several themes present themselves in in-depth readings, such as the theme of otherness in Albert Camus’ “The Guest”. This story centers on a character, an outsider, who is trying to fit into the society in the story. It may not be the fact that the stranger is different in looks, culture, or language like it is in this short story, but it is just the fact that they are not the same, which causes them to be the outsider and fulfill the role of the otherness. As we look through the short story ‘The Guest’, and through the short novel ‘The Stranger’, we can see that Albert Camus is working towards the idea of Otherness and how it can affect societies where the ‘otherness’ is seen as undesirable.

Symbols and irony are efficient literary devices that suggest the meaning of a story without explicitly stating it. In “The Guest”, Albert Camus uses particular symbols and irony to show how negative consequences arise from the choice to remain passive for the sake of neutrality. By offering the Arab a choice of whether or not to submit himself to prison, Daru’s attempt to not be accountable inevitably result in the consequence of losing his own neutrality. Furthermore, the symbolic location of Daru’s home and its reflection of Daru’s desire to remain neutral plays a major role in helping the readers understand the theme of the story. Lastly, Daru’s treatment towards the prisoner and the irony in the title contributes to the theme of the

In the short story “The Guest”, the main character Daru battles to come into a conclusion on whether to turn in the Arab prisoner or not because of his values. Daru valued the loyalty of his French culture and his friendship with Balducci, but on the contrary, he believes in the idea of free will. He demonstrates a caring concern for Balducci’s emotions by carefully stating his words before finishing, he says that, “The orders? I’m not…” (Camus 4) with a slight hesitation, “... not wanting to hurt the old Corsican.”

remind the reader of Cain's reply to God after the murder of Abel: "I am