Kalaysah:
Hi, Danalsah
It’s your sister, Kalaysah. I read a good book called “The Stranger” by Albert Camus. Let me tell you about:
This begins with a telegram to Meursault (a young emotionally indifference man) about his mother’s death. He attends the funeral but surprisingly showed no emotion whatsoever and afterward returns home with no sense of loss. He returned to his life as usual like nothing happened; he meets up with his “girlfriend”, he befriends a pimp and went to the beach with both. Talking about the beach Meursault killed an Arab on the beach in cold-blood; he killed someone for no logical reason. He was put on trial for the murder and was founded guilty, I mean why wouldn’t he; and was sentenced to execution.
Meursault is both the protagonist and the antagonist. You may ask how can he be both, well because he faces the main conflict in the novel as well as causes it. He faces execution because he killed a man in cold-blood and his lack of his emotions causes his situation to be direr.
There are minor characters that were beneficial and others that were detrimental. Marie Cardona: honest, easy
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If you don’t know what I mean, Meursault lacks any emotion, he doesn’t react to tragedy or reacts with remorse or sympathy or love. What will you do if your mother died? Wouldn’t you shed a tear or want to see her one last time? Well, not our “sweet” Meursault he attended his mother funeral: doesn’t want to see her body, falls asleep during the funeral, and doesn’t shed one tear. You may think he just copes in a different way but that’s how he is. Ironically, he returns home, finds a girlfriend and they have a nice event. Well isn’t that a way to remember your mother though he did learn something from her in his last days; he learned that he should rebel against death as his mother did. He emptied all hope, free himself from worry, and was able to acknowledge the “gentle indifference” of the
This shows that the day he died he did not understand what was going on and why people were so said. I think that the main character is unemotional because at this time the character may had been very young it did not understand what was going
Marie asks Meursault to marry her and continues to support him throughout his court trial even though he does not feel the same emotional connection. Raymond Sintes- Meursault's neighbor who enlists his help after he believes his mistress is cheating on him. A man who takes initiative through violence, Raymond seeks revenge to punish her and the mistress's brother for the wrongdoings she has committed against him. 2 more characters Thomas Perez-
The Analysis of the Stranger, John Wilson in The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson Heroes in literary works were once referred to as the "rebel"; however, the rebel has been replaced by the "stranger" in recent literature. In Lois Simmie's The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson, the novel centers on the title character who is alienated, disaffected and an outsider. The author’s depiction of the central character of Wilson as a stranger engages the reader in a different way, by having the reader want to know more about this mysterious and striking figure.
The heat is also very important in this novel. Both times that death was in front of Meursault, the heat was unbearable for him; his mother’s funeral and the murder of the Arab. The heat is very uncomfortable for him, because he mentions it many times. Sometimes it is so bad, he becomes dizzy and is unable to think properly. When he is in court, every time he is questioned about the murder, he alway relates back to how hot the scene was.
Meursault constantly has varying thoughts dancing around his mind, one of which is the environment. The environment is behind all of Meursault’s struggles and problems in his mental world and interferes with his physical world as well, causing him to think that the world is irrational. Holden’s attitude toward the world is particularly similar to Meursault’s because nihilism and absurdism are quite similar. Both believe that the world is irrational and out to get them. The only difference between the two is that Meursault discovers that even though he believes that the world manipulated him and demanded to kill the
Throughout the memoir, Didion credits numerous examples of grief from other literature and media, something that was both important to her and her husband. These passages are littered throughout the book, interceding with lyrics, poems, and even essays on the subject. For instance, Matthew Arnold exclaims “Surely she will come again!” in a poem written about the death of his mother (45). In one of John Hopkins’ lectures, he states that death was “shameful and forbidden” (60).
Through the use of diction, Meursault perceives life is meaningless, which leads him to have the absence of strong bonding with acquaintance around him. He indicates that he lacks empathy from personal and social level. Meursault is a simple man who lives his life in a stickler type and changes annoy him. As the novel introduces Meursault mother being dead, he shows lack of concern and a burden to visit his mother for the last time. “Maman died today...
Meursault stops being a passive observer. In fact, he's "sure about [himself], about everything, surer than [the chaplain] could ever be, sure of [his] life and sure of the death [he has] waiting for [him]” (Camus 131). He went from not caring about anything that happened to him, to understanding and accepting the consequences of his actions and having an opinion on his death sentence; “Man cannot escape death” (Camus 141). He also states that he knows that he has left his life in the hands of others for too long. Edna also shares this problem with Meursault.
One of the most important passages within the novel is when Meursault repeatedly defies the chaplain in the cell. It serves as a pinnacle for the entire story, and grants readers a look into the main characters state of mind. In this passage, Meursault comes to a dramatic realization of who he is through an existential epiphany, and with thorough analysis the overall significance of the passage to the story is revealed. In the passage the chaplain visits Meursault much to Meursault’s displeasure.
An example from the text that shows this is “He had called out to me and I had not answered. I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears.” From this we are able to infer that when his father died, he had a very emotionless reaction, and didn't do much. Later said in the next chapter “Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore.”
Throughout many parts of this book Meursault plays things off as if he doesn’t care what is going on around him and that he is just going through life with only the motions, without care or feelings to what happens to himself or to what is going on around him. Many monumental things were happening in Meursault’s life during the course of this book, including the possibility of marriage to the one person that seems to bring any sort of happiness into his life, the possibility of moving to Paris for his job, the murdering of an arab man for defense, and becoming new friends with many people. Though all of this is happening in his life, he always seems to find a way to pass it all off to just go with whatever is happening around him and have no wants or ties to happiness. It’s all just there and continuing on in his life. For example when Marie, Meursault’s lover, asks to get married he states, “Marie came that evening and asked me if I’d marry her.
Meursault is not an emotional person. Meursault often seems not to react to major events that happen to him. For example when his mom dies, he says, “Really, nothing had changed”(24). There is an obvious emotional disconnect. Either he was not close to his mother or her death had little to no effect on him.
1.Character:Eleven from "Stranger Things." Eleven is one of the main characters in "Stranger Things." She hasn 't had much social interaction and as a result isn 't very social or good at being social. She 's also not very educated, but that doesn 't mean she 's not intelligent. She 's also kind-hearted.
Throughout “The Stranger”, written by Albert Camus, the reader is able to identify Meursault as an anti-hero because he serves his
Following her father’s death, the narrator finally embraces