1- Sheikh Zaabalawi
What does Sheikh Zaabalawi represent? Is he symbolic of anything in particular, or does he represent many things at once? (Try and use specifics from the text to support your argument.)
Zaabalawi is not just a man who can perform miracles and cure the body. The narrator’s search for him also represents a search for the mystical, a search for religious discipline. In that way, Zaabalawi comes to represent God.
2 - "Zaabalawi"--thinking about illness
The narrator’s illness is never defined because it is not just a physical illness. It represents more an eponymous malaise that eats away at all of us and represents that sense of separation between the divine and us. Until we find a way to approach the divine, we also feel that soul sikness.
3- "Zaabalawi"--the story's structure
One might be tempted to call Mahfouz’s story episodic, as each scene seems to blend into the next with no clearly discernible link between them (other than the fact that the narrator wants to find Zaabalawi). Is the story episodic? If not, what makes each scene in the story significant? And what links the various episodes?
The lessons of the stories are what link the different events that take place in the story. One lesson is that there is always the question as to whether it is possible to find God or whether we can never quite experience God in a full way. Even the drunken dream that the narrator had could be a true mystical experience, but it could also just be a red herring.
4- Daru
Provide some examples of how Daru is physically exiled and isolated from his own people. How does Camus use descriptions of the landscape to confirm Daru's isolation?
Daru is at a school at the top of a tall hill, and no one has come to class today because of the blizzard. He is isolated from his community as a teacher, living apart from the rest of the town. This isolation is highlighted at the end when Daru receives the threat on his blackboard even though he did not turn in the prisoner.
5- A puzzling choice
Why do you think the Arab chooses the road to prison?
This is an intriguing question. Given that this is a story about existentialism, the answer may be that the Arab may have felt that he was already in a sort of prison because he had received judgment from the law, and even if he went to join the nomads he would still have been the gendarmes’ quarry, and they would have kept searching for him. Having to leave his own community might have been his own sense of imprisonment.
6- "The Guest"
As the story ends, Daru seems to be threatened with a consequence he doesn’t deserve. Is this just? Is there any way he could have created a good outcome? Why do you think Camus chooses to end the story this way?
Existentialism teaches that life is absurd, and that there is no rational explanation for the things that happen to us. Daru is now in danger from his own people for collaborating with the gendarmes, but there is no way that this teacher could have avoided it – just like there was no way for the Arab to avoid suffering, so he just went to prison.
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