The author of The Stranger, Albert Camus, was born in 1913 in Mondavi, French Algeria. His father died early in his life, so he lived with his half-deaf mother. He married two women when he was young, but divorced them both shortly after. He did very well in school and continued on into university. He also completed some military service and had a short political career as well. As far as his literary work goes, Camus wrote novels, plays, and even performed with the theater. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, three years before he died.
The Stranger was published in 1942. Camus wrote it following up World War II because, as a result of the war, Camus developed beliefs in justice and human dignity. He coined the term …show more content…
Meursault’s mother dies, and he attends her funeral. Shortly after, a new romance buds between himself and a lady named Marie. Mr. Meursault then becomes friends with his neighbor Raymond. Together, they plot a way to get back at Raymond’s girlfriend for doing him wrong. As a result of this, the girlfriend’s brother gets into a scuffle with Raymond at the beach. Raymond almost kills him, but Mr. Meursault kills him instead as a “result of the sun’s heat”. This gets him put in jail and sentenced to death by guillotine. One of the reasons they sentenced him to death was because he exhibited no emotion throughout all that he had been …show more content…
I love the title of this book because you don’t really understand it until the end and because it could have so many different meanings. For starters, the title leads you to believe that there is only one stranger and while reading, you most likely assume that person is the one Mr. Meursault murdered since he didn’t know the guy at all. As you continue to read though, it is clear that the real stranger is Mr. Meursault himself. As everyone is testifying in his favor, they all begin to realize that they don’t really know Meursault as well as they thought. I think Mr. Meursault feels like everyone else is a stranger too. He doesn’t really understand their emotions after all, and how do you understand someone without being able to feel empathy or emotion? You
The Stranger was published in 1942. Camus wrote it following up World War II because, as a result of the war, Camus developed beliefs in justice and human dignity. He coined the term …show more content…
Meursault’s mother dies, and he attends her funeral. Shortly after, a new romance buds between himself and a lady named Marie. Mr. Meursault then becomes friends with his neighbor Raymond. Together, they plot a way to get back at Raymond’s girlfriend for doing him wrong. As a result of this, the girlfriend’s brother gets into a scuffle with Raymond at the beach. Raymond almost kills him, but Mr. Meursault kills him instead as a “result of the sun’s heat”. This gets him put in jail and sentenced to death by guillotine. One of the reasons they sentenced him to death was because he exhibited no emotion throughout all that he had been …show more content…
I love the title of this book because you don’t really understand it until the end and because it could have so many different meanings. For starters, the title leads you to believe that there is only one stranger and while reading, you most likely assume that person is the one Mr. Meursault murdered since he didn’t know the guy at all. As you continue to read though, it is clear that the real stranger is Mr. Meursault himself. As everyone is testifying in his favor, they all begin to realize that they don’t really know Meursault as well as they thought. I think Mr. Meursault feels like everyone else is a stranger too. He doesn’t really understand their emotions after all, and how do you understand someone without being able to feel empathy or emotion? You