Part I: Page 58-69 "The sun was starting to burn my cheeks, and I could feel drops of sweat gathering in my eyebrows. The sun was the same it had been the day I"d buried Maman, and like then, my forehead especially was hurting me, all the veins in it throbbing under the skin. It was this burning, which I couldn't stand anymore, that made me move forward. I knew that it was stupid, that I wouldn't get the sun off me by stepping forward. But I took a step, one step, forward. And this time, without getting up, the Arab drew his knife and held it up to me in the sun. The light shot off the steel a...

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... and possibly discard many of their ideas, but deep down, they have had a very powerful effect on us. Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Albert Camus' The Stranger described the main characters' parents directly and indirectly, often being expressed through the protagonists' actions, feelings, and characterization. Camus uses Maman as more of an indirect influence in his story than Kafka's use of Mr. and Mrs. Samsa, and ... couldn't be all that bad. In this regard, Camus portrays the views of his existentialist genre very clearly by infusing those ideas into his characters. His use of th...

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