O'Connor and Camus

This week we had to read “The Guest” by Albert Camus. I found this story a bit odd because all Daru wanted was to stay in the building on the hill. He decided to let the prisoner make the decision of going to prison or escaping and he decided to go to prison. This was shocking to me because I did not think that someone would willingly go to prison when they could have escaped. We also read two stories by Flannery O’Connor. The first story was “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and the other story was “Good Country People”. The first story was sad because the whole family was killed. I feel it was kind of the grandmothers fault for taking the cat without telling the others. One thing that I don’t understand is why the man shot the grandmother three times. The second story was a little stranger. I did not understand why the boy pretended to like the girl just so that he could steal her fake leg. What was stranger was that he does the same thing to other girls. This week we also learned about Existentialism. I am still having a hard time understanding it but I think that in time I will get it.