The Itinerant One The Stranger by Albert Camus starts off with Meursault‚ who is the narrator of the story (in first person)‚ getting him a sad telegraph that tells him about the death of his beloved mom. Meursault then with no emotion goes to Marengo to see his mother’s body. The director of the assisted living home told him that he could see his mother. When Meursault found out that she was in her coffin‚ he declined the offer to take a look at her with disgust on his face. In the night‚
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continues in the time of its life. The field is in him‚ his action that subtracts in all opinion except his. A bigger life cannot mean for him another life. That would be dishonest". The novel The Stranger‚ based on Sisyphus’s Myth‚ shows clearly Camus existentialist point of view of life
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What do you think caused the death go millions of Native Americans? The answer is plague. The Smallpox plague was caused by the exploration and encounter of the Europeans in the the Americas. Whenever the Europeans A a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a c a aA a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a c a aA a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a c a aA a a a a a a a
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In the book the Stranger by Albert Camus‚ we are introduced to the main character immediately with a very tragic scenario of a death. The main character is a male‚ but he is not your average male shown by his actions and personality. But who is this strange man? his name is Meursault. He seems to lack emotion; because for major events in his life (such as the opening scene) that are full of emotion‚ but he shows absolutely no emotion to these events in his life. He also appears to be very detached
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Plague Notes Lifespan of yersinia pestis bacilli outside of living host: • In frozen cadavers (years) • In putrefying cadavers (a few days) • In ground (dies rapidly) • In micro-climate of rodent warrens (several months→ years) Urban cycle is important for mass destruction of urban ways? A flea bites rodent‚ and then the wild rodent will have some type of contact with a human. Or the infected flea will direct the person. INFLUENZA • Acute respiratory infection due to influenza virus
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This paper seeks to compare and contrast the philosophical views of two great philosophers‚ namely Albert Camus and Franz Kafka. The works involved in this argument are Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Camus’ The Outsider. The chief concern of both writers is to find a kind of solution to the predicament of modern man and his conflict with machines and scientific theories. Death‚ freedom‚ truth and identity are themes to be studies here in the sense of absurdity. Kafka was born in Prague in 1883.
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The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1946. The novel begins with Meursault receiving a telegram informing him of his mother’s death. Over the next two weeks after the funeral‚ Meursault carries on like nothing tragic happened. He gets a girlfriend‚ befriends a pimp‚ and goes on a beach vacation with both. During the vacation‚ he and Raymond‚ the pimp‚ get into a fight with the Arabs and Meursault kills one without an explanation for the crime. At the murder trial‚ the court said he was cold-hearted
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Albert Camus had his own personal meaning of life‚ a revelation of his own‚ “I think my life is of great importance‚ but I also think it is meaningless.” The meaning of life‚ in the world’s eyes‚ is a fleeting thing‚ ever evolving and changing like the days in a year. Many authors have broached this elusive topic but none have been as inventive or done so with quite as much success as Albert Camus in his book The Stranger. Camus‚ the man who brought notoriety to the absurd‚ used this book to explore
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For thousands of years‚ humans have been valiantly attempting to stop the most detrimental and limiting factor on our civilization. This plague has been unrelenting since before humans first stood on two legs. Violence has been studied by hundreds‚ if not thousands of psychologists‚ economists and other social workers and after all this work experts homicides have decreased by up to 100 times from Oxford in the 1300s. However violence is still deeply rooted in our society and people are increasingly
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Stranger Reading Journal Essay In Albert Camus’ The Stranger‚ the story is told in a first person point of view from Monsieur Meursault as the narrator. For a more obvious reason‚ the book is told in his point of view because he is the main character‚ but there are multiple other possibilities for why Camus did so. The book is a memory of what happened leading up to his execution‚ which is why it needed to be in first person point of view. Camus did this because there are a lot of things we
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