The Guest Response
Response Paper 2 “The Guest”
Albert Camus a French Algerian writer who is best known for his political journals. As an individual and politician he was against the French colonization and wanted and independent Algeria (Playwright). “The Guest” story is an example of his struggle against colonization and war. As he describes the situation in the story, “Now shiploads of wheat were arriving from France and the worst was over. But it would be hard to forget that poverty”. It means that Camus does not like the dependency of Algeria, and he believes that people will remember the bad situation caused by French.
Camus has developed the story with three characters in a very clear and interest way. Daru is the schoolmaster who is living in the schoolhouse, …show more content…
Making sense of ‘‘The Guest’’ in relations of Camus’ own believes, I find Daru as a moral man confronting an absurd and indifferent world, symbolized especially by the outlook. The arrival of Balducci and his prisoner offers a moral wonder that Daru have to confront the fact that this world is not just absurd but also violent and unjust. His main position is clear from the beginning; while he does not want to turn him in to face the French law would be unjust. Daru acts against unjust ideologies of the French colonial government. His solution is both a refusal to take sides and stand against extremism and violence. While it is the appropriate decision for him in self-realization, but there is no expectation that it will provide sense of meaning in an absurd …show more content…
This makes clear for the reader the time of the story. Moreover, it has taken place in a frigid school house on the peak desolate plateau in the Atlas Mountain of Algeria. The dependency of Algeria to France declares that it took place in a year in 1950s when Algeria was colonized by the France. A reader knows by reading this text of the story that location “Now shiploads of wheat were arriving from France and the worst was over. But it would be hard to forget that poverty, that army of ragged ghosts wandering in the sunlight, the plateaus burned to a cinder month after month, the earth shriveled up little by little, literally scorched, every stone bursting into dust under one's foot. The sheep had died then by thousands and even a few men, here and there, sometimes without anyone's knowing” (Camus, 1957). This other assumption of the arrival of the ships can be the message of a prosper future for
Albert Camus a French Algerian writer who is best known for his political journals. As an individual and politician he was against the French colonization and wanted and independent Algeria (Playwright). “The Guest” story is an example of his struggle against colonization and war. As he describes the situation in the story, “Now shiploads of wheat were arriving from France and the worst was over. But it would be hard to forget that poverty”. It means that Camus does not like the dependency of Algeria, and he believes that people will remember the bad situation caused by French.
Camus has developed the story with three characters in a very clear and interest way. Daru is the schoolmaster who is living in the schoolhouse, …show more content…
Making sense of ‘‘The Guest’’ in relations of Camus’ own believes, I find Daru as a moral man confronting an absurd and indifferent world, symbolized especially by the outlook. The arrival of Balducci and his prisoner offers a moral wonder that Daru have to confront the fact that this world is not just absurd but also violent and unjust. His main position is clear from the beginning; while he does not want to turn him in to face the French law would be unjust. Daru acts against unjust ideologies of the French colonial government. His solution is both a refusal to take sides and stand against extremism and violence. While it is the appropriate decision for him in self-realization, but there is no expectation that it will provide sense of meaning in an absurd …show more content…
This makes clear for the reader the time of the story. Moreover, it has taken place in a frigid school house on the peak desolate plateau in the Atlas Mountain of Algeria. The dependency of Algeria to France declares that it took place in a year in 1950s when Algeria was colonized by the France. A reader knows by reading this text of the story that location “Now shiploads of wheat were arriving from France and the worst was over. But it would be hard to forget that poverty, that army of ragged ghosts wandering in the sunlight, the plateaus burned to a cinder month after month, the earth shriveled up little by little, literally scorched, every stone bursting into dust under one's foot. The sheep had died then by thousands and even a few men, here and there, sometimes without anyone's knowing” (Camus, 1957). This other assumption of the arrival of the ships can be the message of a prosper future for