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Analyzing Albert Camus The Guest

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In “The Guest” written by Albert Camus, Balducci a police officer heads toward the school where Daru teaches. He comes with a prisoner, the Arab man, who’s been arrested for killing his cousin over some grain dispute. Daru is now ordered to take the Arab to police headquarters in Tinguit, but Daru gives the prisoner a choice to either turn himself in or flee for safety, but the prisoner chooses prison instead. Daru mentions how he lives in a desert where no one could survive in, “No one in this desert, neither he nor his guest, mattered. And yet, outside this desert neither of them, Daru knew, could have really lived.”(180). The desert can be a sign of punishment that awaits the rebels (Psalm 68:7) and as a warning sign of divine judgment when
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