... says "I realizes she was Moorish. I wrote the letter. I did it just as it come to me, but I tried my best to please Raymond because I did not have any reason no to please him." Later on, Raymond thanks Meursault for being his friend. "I didn't mind being his pal, and he seemed set on it." Meursault's attitude indicates that he ... does not care if he is Raymond's pals. In other words, Meursault creates an indifference image about being friend with Raymond. Meursault is emotionally detached from the world. He seems caring only himself. Consequently, he make awful decisions when he face e...

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... or hanging out at Meursault's house. When arriving home from work one day, Meursault runs into Raymond, who invites him over for dinner. They talk about Raymond's fight with an Arab and then, his cheating girlfriend. Raymond then tells Meursault they are pals and asks him to write a letter to his girlfriend to make ... not love her. Marie still wants to marry him and is excited about Paris, although Meursault does not want to go. Meursault and Marie meet Raymond and his girlfriend for lunch and a swim. After lunch, Meursault goes for a walk with the other men. While walking, they run int...

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... improvement. It speaks of absurd characteristics in people. On one sunny day, Meursault, his friend Raymond, and his girlfriend Marie go to the beach to visit one of Raymond's friends. On the way to the beach, they encounter some Arabs, who have conflicts with Raymond. The Arabs end up following them to the beach and meet up with them ... . Raymond takes a gun with him, but Meursault, knowing Raymond had the intent to kill, tells him "take [the ... Arab] man to man and give me your gun" (56). After a short brawl, Raymond ends up being stabbed by one on the Arabs. Mersualt is forced to ta...

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... of her at all. It is hard to tell if Meursault is able to tell right from wrong. It is hard to know how he feels about being friends with Raymond. When Raymond talks about them being pals, Meursault doesn't have any feeling about it. He just knows that it doesn't bother him. When asked to write the letter to ... Raymond's mistress, he helps out, not once thinking about the consequences. He has no concept that Raymond might not be a good friend or a person of integrity himself. In the climax of the book, Meursault commits murder. He does not ... indifference could be unrecognizable in a...

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... and having a defense seems needless. Confronted with the court's legal mechanics, Meursault is a stranger to the judicial world, thus disabling him. Meursault is also a stranger to social custom. His "pal" Raymond invites Meursault to his apartment to have blood sausage and wine, then proceeds to tell Meursault about his Arab girlfriend and how he beat her because she was cheating on ... him. He wants to punish this girl even though he still has sexual feelings for her. Raymond asks Meursault what he thinks about the whole thing and Meursault says he doesn't "think anything but that it ...

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... care about people's feelings and emotions. This appeared to the jury that he didn't feel or care about emotion portraying him as capable of murder. Raymond who lives in the apartment above Meursaults has some problems with his mistress. Raymond wishes to punish her. He tells his story to Meursault and he agrees to write a letter to her, which will end with ... Raymond beating her. Meursault does not question the morality of the situation even though he knows someone is going to get hurt. The jury judged him on his seemingly uncaring and ... ...

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... is simply does not make the distinctions between good and bad in his own mind. He is neither moral nor immoral. Rather he is amoral. When Raymond asks him to write a letter that will help Raymond torment his mistress, Meursault indifferently agrees because he "didn't have any reason not to." He does not place any value judgment on his act, and writes ... ...

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... here with a character with common situations that we can understand without showing any emotions, or feelings in the character at the point we can relate. After Meursault is befriended by Raymond, a neighborhood pimp, who uses Meursault to escape the hate of the Arab brothers of a prostitute he recently harassed, Meursault undergoes imprisonment after being fascinated into shooting one of the Arabs ... ...

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... ne sont pas reconnues par la société. Il compromet quelquefois sa fidelite à la verite et il agit sans réfléchir. Par exemple, il aide son voisin Raymond, qui est un charactere questioniable, à mentir aux agents de police parce qu'il se melé dans une affaire menacarte, et aussi à ecrire une lettre à son petite amie Arabe. Encore ... ...

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... that would be questionable to those of the normal society. He befriends men whom are looked down upon, and he agrees to marry a woman he does not love. He assists Raymond in tormenting his mistress, and later on is prepared to fight off the mistress's brother but ultimately kills him. On top of all this there is the one fact, which ... ...

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... after the murder. After deciding not to walk up the staircase to the beach house, Meursault faces the challenges of nature along the beach, and coincidentally meets the brother of Raymond's mistress. The drawing of the Arab's knife blinds Meursault, and along with the stress of the physical world accumulates to him pulling the trigger. Realizing what he has just done ... ...

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... personal goals. Scherr believes that the reason for all of Meursaults odd behavior was a result of his disgust with himself for not finishing his education and getting mixed up with Raymond. His reason was to rid himself of a life he did not want. Scherr pointed out that there were many times throughout the book that mentioned Meursault as being intelligent. One ... ...

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