"The Guest"

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The paper explores the themes of choice, accountability and death
in Albert Camus' "The Guest". The paper shows how fate, choice and accountability are all quite relative and what is right for one may be completely wrong for another.

From the Paper:

"The schoolteacher treats the Arab with kindness, and even gives him food and money to help him on his way. And yet, he is marked by the Arab's people because they believe he turned him over to the authorities. Daru realizes what a predicament he is in, and he realizes he is caught in the middle of an unsolvable situation. Camus writes, "And he cursed at one and the same time his own people who had sent him this Arab and the Arab too who had dared to kill and not managed to get away" (Camus). Daru should also curse human nature, and the Arab's choice to turn himself in to the authorities."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Camus, Albert. "The Guest." Virginia Tech. 2008. 4 March 2008.<http://www.cis.vt.edu/modernworld/d/guest.html>
• Hurley, D.F. "Looking for the Arab: Reading the Readings of Camus's 'The Guest'." Studies in Short Fiction 30.1 (1993): 79+.
• Mcgregor, Rob Roy. "Camus's 'The Silent Men' and 'The Guest': Depictions of Absurd Awareness." Studies in Short Fiction 34.3 (1997): 307.

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