The Guest

Albert Camus uses the story, The Guest, to answer how the landscape and setting around civilization can demonstrate human’s absurdity. This absurdity is the ability of man to find a purpose in a world that neither knows nor cares that man exists. The moral dilemma imposed on Daru in the story highlights the essence of the absurd condition of the world and how it forces onto Daru a situation beyond his control, regardless of his moral attitude. In Daru’s land, drought is followed by snow and,…

Meddle East by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea in the story of “Guests of the Sheik” remind me my own town in my home country. Being from Medial East most of the cultural norms and Islamic roles in the story looked quite familiar with the cultural norms and Islamic roles back in my country. Lived all the way down on the other side of the ocean, I personal experienced most of the life experience of Fernea, which she mentioned in her story “Guests of the Sheik”. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea tried to…

• The speakers for the guest presentation were Adrian Moreno and Bryce Gerick who were from the company CenterPoint Energy. Both speakers play a tremendous role within CenterPoint Energy, Adrian Moreno is the Service Area Manager and Bryce Gerick is the Associate Service Consultant. CenterPoint Energy’s main focuses includes electric transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution, and natural gas sales and services. They have been serving the community for over 150 years, have more than…

Guest’s poem, “It Couldn’t Be Done”, the author employs words and phrases that motivate people not to give up on their goals no matter what others have to say and to overcome challenges that get in their way of reaching their ultimate goal. Edgar Albert Guest used particular words and phrases to explain that anything can be done if the individual just tries. There is an “it” (1) mentioned in the first stanza which symbolizes the activity or thing that other people claim that cannot be done.…

Camus presents a philosophy devoid of religious belief and “middle-class” morality, where condemnation of choice and personal honesty become the bases of a happy and meaningful life. The Stranger and The Guest by Albert Camus discusses the Absurd condition of man’s existence. Where if man is to make meaning for himself: Revolt, Freedom, and Passion are necessary values. The author projects his philosophy through an unremarkable protagonist throughout the novel The Stranger.…

Albert Camus’s “The Guest” is a short account of an exchange between a prisoner and a school master. Daru, a school master is tasked with the duty of taking an Arab prisoner to jail. Conflicted between his duty to his country and his morality which is against denying a man his freedom, Daru neglected to make the choice of prison or freedom for the Arab. He forces the choice on to the prisoner, who chooses jail. Presented with a choice, each character is faced with the question of what to do…

Guest Speaker Response #1 1) Christopher’s presentation was very enlightening for me because his topic is something I am passionate about. I believe that there are so many other ways to cure ourselves than traditional medicines. I love that integrated medicine is patient-centered care and focuses on lifestyle and health. He said almost all chronic diseases are affected by lifestyle and health; this made me want to start going to the gym and eating healthier. I knew some things about CAM but…

Guest Speaker Review 1 We had the privilege of hearing presentations by both Sheila Butler and Madeline Lennon. While their presentations had many differences they both covered the common thread of feminism and inequality in the world of art. The first of which was Sheila Butler, a visual artist, former professor, and a founding member of Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, or MAWA, a feminist visual arts education centre. They were responding to the inequities that they perceived in the art…

When reading the “The Guest” by Albert Camus we find ourselves in the middle of the struggles that a man named Daru. Daru who is a school master lives alone in a schoolhouse. He spends his days teaching children but due to the snow his students “who lived in the villages scattered over the plateau had stopped coming” (Camus 1) One cold morning he see two men making their way to his house and that is when his troubles begin. The choices made by Daru in “The Guest” are a perfect example of what an…

Albert Camus in the story of “The Guest” is trying to communicate one of the experiences of humans under distressed situations while shaping their decisions in such isolation. We can all decide at some point in our lives to make better decisions weather we believe in it or not as far we understand our sense of worth. Camus is trying to present the morals of these characters in the story. An isolated environment of French occupied Algerian territory, where the story takes place. Daru a teacher…