`The Guest` `The Drunkard` or `Greenleaf`

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Dilemma over Choices

There are choices in life that we have to make . Some of these choices are really difficult to make and we have to understand that in every action , there is a consequence . Whether we choose what we think is right , it has an appropriate reverse action that may or may not complicate things more than we expect it could affect our lives However , the choices we make do not necessarily have to give a negative effect towards us but sometimes it offers

a securing thought towards our own preferences and perspectives in life . In Albert Camus ' The Guest which is part of the collection entitled Exile and the Kingdom , he told a story of a man who has to make a decision between what he must and what he should not do

The Guest

Daru is a schoolmaster wherein the small school is situated in the top of a plateau . It is something which he does not like since what he wanted is to have the school in between the hill and the plateau However , what he wished for was not granted . On a snowy night , he saw two men walking towards the school from his window view . When they finally got closer to the school , he noticed that the other man was tied with a rope on his hands and the man on the horse holds the rope However he also understands that the man on the horse which is Balducci does...