Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Guest #6

Can you discern an overall point Camus is trying to make in The Guest?
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  1. GwenNovember 17, 2009 at 8:22 PM

    Camus might be trying to make the point that helping people won't always make things right. Balducci brought the Arab to Daru just like he was ordered. He finished everything he needed to get done. No harm was done. However, Daru wanted to do the right thing by letting the Arab choose his destiny. Once he arrived back to his classroom, his life was threatened by the Arab's brother. Either way, Daru's life would've been at stake. All of his good deeds were put to waste when the Arab chose to go towards the prison. Sometimes, doing the right thing is useless when people don't know how to take the help.

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  2. raisinsklNovember 20, 2009 at 12:37 AM

    I think Camus’s overall point is telling readers that the importance of the theory of existentialism- life is about how one chooses to live meaningfully and life does not matter after one dies, all it matters how one accepts his fate. It is very similar to the book I read now The Stranger, also Camus wrote it.

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