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The Stranger Tone

 

            The tone of voice an author presents techniques and modes of presentation that reveal or create the attitude. has towards the work reflects attitudes and feelings towards a situation or to its readers. In Albert Camus" The Stranger .
             Camus" language and phrasing shows that he has aimed the book towards and older crow, one that would understand the message he wants to portray. Even when the language is written in a simple tone, it still seems aimed at an older audience. .
             Camus the philosophy of absurd is not meant to contain a lesson for or moral 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 take his friend back to the beach house in order to heal his wounds. After some time had passed, he goes back to where they had fought the Arabs and finds the one who stabbed Raymond and with no eminent purpose, shoots him once and then 4 more times after a brief pause. This event ends the first part of the novel, but begins the rising action which leads to the clash between the protagonist and antagonist.
             Camus" tone is one that is detached, sober, plain, and at times subtly ironic. He creates a way of interpreting Meursault's views .
             Albert Camus" The Stranger is a novel at worst and haunting reality of what life can be seen as if it is considered meaningless. A man is devoid of emotion, even regarding his sensitive, personal matters.
             The themes intertwine, it implies that life is essentially meaningless.


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