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The Stranger By Albert Camus

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Life is said to be meaningful and a mission to find yourself. However, for people such as Meursault, who is the anti-hero in The Stranger life has a different meaning. Camus views the world in the eyes of an outcast within his society to show his difference through lack of heroic attributes. In the novel, the story follows the story of a man named Meursault who can’t see the point of existence, and who one day, accidentally shoots an Arab man without knowing his own motivations. He ends up being put to death because he doesn’t show any remorse but he didn’t care for his fate because he was going to die eventually. Throughout “The Stranger”, written by Albert Camus, the reader is able to identify Meursault as an anti-hero because he serves his

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