Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Guest #4

Why does Daru leave the Arab to make up his own decision about going to prison or heading off to the nomads?
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8 comments:

  1. GwenNovember 17, 2009 at 7:01 PM

    Daru was always a lonely man, so he probably didn't know how to handle company. From the beginning, Daru did not want to bring the Arab to prison. He tried avoiding his job by not using ropes, leaving the gun in the drawer, and leaving the Arab alone. He didn't want anything to do with the destiny of the Arab, so in order to fulfill his duty, he brought the Arab to the opening of two roads. Daru didn't want the prisoner's future to be in his hands, so he gave the Arab the final decision. He just wanted to return to his solitude where he could go back to living without a conscience.

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  2. dtwelve89November 17, 2009 at 8:33 PM

    I definitely agree with Gwendolyn, Daru had no intention on determining the Arab's fate. Therefore, he gave the Arab man a chance to choose his own fate while risking the chance of setting a possibly dangerous man free. However, during their brief time together Daru came to believe that the Arab was a decent man and was not a harm to others. In the end, Daru proved to be right about the man as the Arab decided to head towards the colonial authorities to turn himself in.

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  3. AndcliuNovember 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM

    Daru left the Arab to make up his own decision on whether on going to prison or heading off to the nomads because he believed that no one has the right to force someone to do something he want. He doesn't want to be the one that chooses the path for him, he wants him to make his own choice. Daru is a lonely man, and along with that he doesn't want anything or anyone to interfere with his life. He doesn't want to live with the fact that he sent the Arab to his fate, he rather let the Arab choose his own path.

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  4. Tsegu KahsayNovember 19, 2009 at 4:50 PM

    I don't think Daru was saying go and give yourself to the authority, but he was giving him the chance to escape. Here there are two different behaviors of Daru which are in conflict, one is that he wants him to escape the other is that he is telling the Arab to go and give himself to authority. From my point of view, Daru wants that the man would be arrested, because he has killed. In another he wants to give him his liberty because he has understood that the man is not harmful. So instead of telling him to escape he told him, that he deserves to be imprisoned but the choice of whether to go to prison or to escape is up to him. Therefore he gave him that choice.

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  5. raisinsklNovember 19, 2009 at 10:35 PM

    I agreed all of your guys’ comments. Daru left the Arab to make up his own decision bout going to prison or heading off the nomads because he realized what Arab’s decision and choice would bests fit him and had consequences; Daru did not want to leave Arab regretted after what he told him to do something. On the other hand, Daru gave him the choice to flee or go to jail, indirectly made him to understand the futility of fleeing from the inevitable punishment, and willingly to take his responsibility of what he did. This is tightened back to the theme of the story: choice and accountability.

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  6. wayneNovember 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM

    Daru treated the Arab as a guest, as it already stated in the title of the story, not a prisoner. As a schoolmaster, he didn’t think he had an authority to deliver the guy to the prison, so he just let the Arab make his own decision.

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  7. wayneNovember 20, 2009 at 4:01 PM

    In my previous post, I said that Daru treated the Arab as a guest, but after reading the story more carefully, I think I misunderstood it. Actually, Daru was a guest because he was a colonial, and the Arab was the host of this country. As a guest, Daru didn’t think he had an authority to make the decision for the Arab or for the country.

    Actually, I am not sure whether I understand it well. What does "the guest" mean?

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  8. JosephNovember 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM

    First he did not want to intervene to the Arab's case. He left the choice to the Arab about going to prison or heading off to the nomads beacause he did not want to decide the destiny of the Arab. He had been living alone in the place seperated from the out world. However oneday he got an obligation about a prisoner and would be responsible to the prisoner's life. That was so burden to Daru. So, he just fulfill his duty by taking the Arab into his house, leaving him to make an decision going to prison or heading off to the nomads. He even wished that the Arab escaped from his house and he wanted to evade the responsibility of making decision about the Arab's future.

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