Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Why is Daru so distraught by having to deliver the Arab to the colonial authorities?
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  1. dtwelve89November 17, 2009 at 8:04 PM

    Daru is so distraught by having to deliver the Arab to the colonial authorities because he does not want to concern himself with the affairs of others. He feels burdened by the task he has been assigned. He would rather be left alone to mind his own business. To take control of another man's life felt wrong to him. Thus, perhaps that is why he left the Arab man to choose his own fate on the hill.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 17, 2009 at 10:59 PM

    As the title “The Guest” suggests, Daru felt the captive was more of a guest that a prisoner. The fate of the captive was laid on Daru and he was not prepared to view the man in the manner he’d need to, in order to hand him over with a clear conscious. He struggled with the fact that he was unable to view the prisoner as less than humane. On page 823, in the second paragraph he states, “In this room where he had been sleeping alone for a year, this presence bothered him. But it bothered him also by imposing on him a sort of brotherhood he knew well but refused to accept in the present circumstances.” In order to hurt a human being or hand one over to be punished, it seems that you would have to look at that individual as less than a person. Daru viewed the captive as a guest and not a prisoner; it is harder to take a guest to be punished than it is a prisoner.

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  3. Joey phanNovember 17, 2009 at 11:56 PM

    I agree with dtwelve89 that Daru is so distraught by having to deliver the Arab to the colonial authorities is because he does not want to be the one who responsible for the faith of the Arab. that's why Daru was trying to make things possible for the Arab to escape, so that he could escape his duty of deliver the prisoner to the authorities. also, Daru used to live alone without any concern for anything beside himself, so he would like it to stay that way. he would rather the Arab to decides his own his faith.

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  4. wendylyNovember 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM

    I totally agree with dtwelve89, and Joey phan that Daru is so distraught by having to deliver the Arab to the colonial authorities is because he does not want to involve with other people mater. He rather the Arab to handle his own affairs, and make his own decisions of choosing his own fate, that’s why he left the Arab alone on the hill.

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  5. AndcliuNovember 18, 2009 at 10:45 PM

    I also agree with dtwelve89. I believe Daru wants to live a simple and peaceful life without having to decide the fate of someone he doesn't even know. He doesn't want to live with the burden or guilt if he ever did deliver the Arab to the colonial authorities. Even then, he became a little closer to the Arab after the day he was told to watch over and deliver him the next day. It's a tough decision to make when you have to turn over someone that you became friends with.

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  6. Tsegu KahsayNovember 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM

    There can be more than one reason that he did not want to hand him to the police. One is he did not want to be involved in the situation like he said in in the middle of the page of page 819 "Are you pulling my leg?" and another reason can be that he believed that it is not his job to do so. There is even another reason; the Arab is not against them (French) so he did not see any reason why he should have to hand him. But, above all, he does not believe on doing any harm on the Arab even though he is sometimes in dilemma about the Arab the he killed his cousin. Therefor, even though he is distraught at the same time he had a fear about the Arab he has stayed in his house for few days.

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  7. Isaac7600November 19, 2009 at 3:35 PM

    Although I agree with the previous observations of Daru's distraught, It also seems that Daru feels some sort of connection or comradeship with the Arab. I think that Daru also enjoys being in companionship with him, after being alone for so many years.

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  8. DeweiNovember 19, 2009 at 11:25 PM

    Daru is so distraught by having to deliver the Arab to the colonial authorities because he don't want to make an impossible moral choice on either he need to send his compatriot to the police or release him in morally. Also Daru is living in the mountain for a long time, he felt loneliness but also he became careless about outside the world. Thus, He don't want the responsibility chains him.

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  9. JosephNovember 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM

    Daru has been living in a place which is seperated to this world so he has been adapted to his own world and indifferent to this world, outside of his own world. However, oneday he suddenly get an assignment to take care of a prisoner. Daru may feel that someone comes into his life and his own life is interfered by the person and this world. Even he have to decide the fate of the prisoner, who Daru has never known before. It gives Daru burden. Therefore Daru is so distraught by having to deliver the Arab to the colonial authorities

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