What makes life worth living. Love, excitement, knowledge, and or aiding others show prime examples of answers that come to mind. Albert Camus had a very different opinion to show when he wrote the novel “The plague.” In this novel Camus speaks about a small city called Oran. In this city the seasons rarely change and everyone settles for what they have and show almost a complete feeling of contentedness in their everyday lives. In the novel he also shows that the saying “you don’t know what you have until it is gone,” to ring true in many cases. Camus shows that people are content in their ways and don’t realize what they have until it is too late by explaining the functions of the people in Oran, showing one of the main character's wife leaving
