Characters
The main character's name and occupation.
What are Daru and teacher?
Daru receives a visit from them.
Who are the gendarme and the Arab.
What is the snowstorm, the plateau?
The original language of The Guest.
What is French?
The reason Daru is threatened at the end?
What is because the Arab's friends think Daru turned him in?
The French word used to refer to the policeman.
What is gendarme?
The climax of the story.
What is Daru freeing the Arab to make his own choice?
These foreshadow the important choice during the climax.
What are the French rivers on the blackboard?
This war goes on during the story.
What is the Algerian War of Independence between the Algerians and French colonizers?
Three literary elements.
What are plot, characters, setting, theme, conflict?
Characteristics of Daru (name one).
What are empathic, rebellious, isolated, indifferent, anti-war, independent, moraled, indecisive, honorable? (etc.)
An event from the rising action.
What are Balducci's frustration, Daru's refusal, the unbinding of the Arab, the night at the schoolhouse, the dinner together, etc.?
The gendarme Balducci symbolizes these.
What are loyalty, obligation, authority, France?
The Arab's crime.
What is murdering his cousin over grain.
A theme from the story.
What are morality, choice, isolation, lack of meaning.
This expressive feature of the Arab.
What are his eyes?
Daru provides the Arab with these three things to help him escape.
What are food, money, directions?
Another symbol of isolation that appears in the rising action.
What are the different languages between Daru and the Arab?
Definition of Absurdism.
Daru and the Arab eating together symbolizes this.
What are trust, vulnerability, equality?
A factor that separates all three characters (hint: war).
What is allegiance/loyalty (Gendarme: French, Daru: "neutral", the Arab: Algerian rebel).
The reason the ominous end of the story is so important.
What is because it relates to absurdism, shows the irrelevance of Daru's actions, irony?
This action towards the Arab when he arrives at the schoolhouse symbolizes compassion and morality on Daru's part.
What is untying his hands?
The main conflict of the story.
What is Daru being torn between obeying the French or staying true to himself and allowing the Arab make his own choice?
The gendarme offers his to Daru when he leaves, in the interest of Daru's protection.