... calls Meursault one day at work and invites him and Maria to a friend's house on the beach. It is important to note the sun's consistent role in the chapter. It is an extremely hot day, and Meursault refers to the sun numerous times. This is the setting for the story's climax. While at the beach, Meursault, Raymond, and his friend Masson, take a walk, when two "Arabs- confront them ... he has accepted his situation and defied punishment by becoming complacent in jail. Secondly, it foreshadows his demise. On the day of his trial, Camus uses the adjective, "brilliant,"" to describe the su...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to help them. This is when the father and son reach the coast; a stranger steals a few of their supplies they go and look for the thief. Once found, they retrieve all their items. Even though they have retrieved all their items, the father demands the thief strip all his clothing. Giving the stranger less a chance of survival and showing no mercy. The boy pleaded to his father to not ... take all he had but the father refused, "I don't think he should have anything" (McCarthy 149). Another incident of the father showing a lack of empathy is when they encounter a man on the brink of deat...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... looks not only to a Christian God but many gods for answers. He displays a form of weakness by always looking to a higher power. On the other hand, Zorba is a man who does not feel inferior to God and lives life by his own philosophies. By retaining his own beliefs, ... Zorba remains satisfied with the little that he has. Zorba's carefree easy going attitude is displayed right from the beginning of the book when he decides to follow a man he does not even know, a stranger, all the way to Crete. Although both men are poor, Kino depends on money to bring him ... power while Zorba does not...

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• Grade Level: High School

... ) and carrying Kat to what he believed was safety only to find out that he had been hit by a splinter in the rear of the head and has died on the way. Paul finds himself nearly unable to go on at this point, ending his time with Kat and saying, "Do I walk? Have I feet still? Then I know ... and then snaps back to where Paul just nods his head saying, " it isn't so bad" (p140). After going into town, and encountering a Major on the streets, Paul is given order upon order, building up an appalling rage inside of him. He returns home soon after, and attempts to disguise himself in ... he i...

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... fish and do agricultural work. Thus helping her to make life on her own a lot less of a struggle and showing us that she has good survival skills. This shows us that she is independent and well organised. A stranger arrives one day in a plastic suit and Ann watches him explore the valley from the cave that she is observing him from. Ann has mixed feelings ... forehead with it." This shows us that Ann is a caring and compassionate individual, instead of her being fearful of the stranger like she was at first. She cannot bear the thought of him dying. Her prayers were answered when he did...

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... fish and do agricultural work. Thus helping her to make life on her own a lot less of a struggle and showing us that she has good survival skills. This shows us that she is independent and well organised. A stranger arrives one day in a plastic suit and Ann watches him explore the valley from the cave that she is observing him from. Ann has mixed feelings ... forehead with it." This shows us that Ann is a caring and compassionate individual, instead of her being fearful of the stranger like she was at first. She cannot bear the thought of him dying. Her prayers were answered when he did...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . This passage begins with Dorta, an older woman of the same generation of George Kracha, expressing how she feels the "old times" were and how things are different: Everybody knew everybody else in those days. . . It's not like that now anywhere, North Braddock or East Pittsburgh or anywhere. There was more friendliness. . . Nobody was a stranger. At first, when there were still a lot of ... Irish living here, we kept together because we had to. But when the Irish got out it was all our own people. It was good then. (330) This excerpt immediately gives us a sense ... more experience wi...

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... frequently in Cloudstreet. Throughout the novel, the Aboriginal man is associated with religious imagery and thus becomes the main symbol, or representative of a general spirituality that encompasses both traditional Christian beliefs as well as Aboriginal ideas on spirituality. The Christian spirituality in the novel can be seen in how when Quick picks up an Aboriginal man by the side of the road, "the stranger takes a bottle and ... a loaf of white bread", and the "wine and bread seem inexhaustible". Thus, Quick becomes part of a spiritual occurrence that ... both symbolises Holy Comm...

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