First published in 1946, The Stranger was Camus' first novel. The version that I purchased is a direct translation from its French origin. At times the language was a little rough, however, this fact also added to the books authenticity. The somewhat broken English, creates a sense that the main character, who is French, is ... ."" In fact, during the funeral, Meursault is paying more attention to the sun's heat than his mother's service. The sun almost becomes a character in itself. Meursault evaluates the sun in every chapter and it seems to control the tone in the novel. During good times,...

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How Merusault Changes In The Stranger By Camus Meursault appears to be a typical, middle-class young man. He works as a clerk, rents an apartment, and enjoys women, the sea, the sun, ... in his reactions to his mother's death and his relationship with Marie. "Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know"(1). This, the opening line of The Stranger, foreshadows Meursault's attitude toward everything else in the first half of the book. Instead of being mournful and depressed about the death of his mother, Meursault drinks coffee, ... life that society values. His response to life is an ab...

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The imagery found in both The Stranger and The Metamorphosis was family, room, light, the window, and the boss. The two books had a lot in common only that Meursault chose to act in a certain way, while ... flows from the image of the room in the way that it offers the characters a way out from their room. The window is a symbol of calmness and freedom. In The Stranger, Meursault looked out the window with a whim to go out in freedom, but never gave it a thought because he was too inhibited and isolated. He would try to find something ... feel as if I am free and I don't think they are givi...

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... the absurdity of society's values when justice is based on prejudice in Albert Camus' "The Stranger- and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold."" Both "Chronicle of a Death Foretold- by Gabriel Garcí Marquez and "The Stranger- by Albert Camus depict the ritualistic death of a character in order to portray the absurdity of society's values through the use of unconventional justice. ... Garcí Marquez's character Santiago Nasar, a rich and powerful man, is wrongfully accused of raping a newly married girl named Angela ... Vicario. In a ritualistic fashion, that mirrors ...

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... that "our world exists in a universe which holds no place for us, where our life makes no sense." In his novel, The Stranger, Monsieur Meursault is a man rendered in such a situation. He subsists from day to pointless day, morally deprived and socially detached. Holding Meursault ... to his words, and recognizing the voids they reveal, the reader sees Meursault as the stranger - a foreigner in an emotional, consequential world teaming with morality and sentiment. Society endures because of its own understood, furtive laws - laws which keep ... exemplify such a lack of love - of passion....

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• Grade Level: High School