Novel Notebook: The Stranger
1. Setting/Matter: The Stranger by Albert Camus, is set in Algeria in the 1940’s. The setting is important to the story, because it sets the stage for…..
2. Plot: The story is about a man named Monsieur Meursault. In the first part of the book, it is revealed that he recently lost his mother. After her funeral, he returns to his normal routine of life, and he even gets a girlfriend, named Marie, and a new friend named Raymond. They all go to a beach one afternoon, where Raymond and Meursault have a run in with a couple Arab’s, one of which is the brother of Raymond’s mistress. Raymond fights the brother, and almost shoots him, but Meursault stops him. Later, Meursault returns to the scene of the fight, and discover’s the Arab to still be there. All of a sudden, he shoots the Arab dead a total of 5 times. In the second part of the book, Meursault is now in jail and is waiting for a trial. A lot of the people he speaks to tell him to believe in god, and show remorse (he isn’t remorseful). This frequently comes up during his trial to use as evidence and to show that he is a monster. He ends up being tried as …show more content…
Characters: The Protagonist of The Stranger is the main character Monsieur Meursault. He is not like other protagonists, because he is hated by almost everyone in the book. Along with the odd protagonist angle of the story, the antagonist is also Meursault. Meursault is too cold, too truthful, and too indifferent. “That evening Marie came by to see me and asked me if I wanted to marry her. I said it didn’t make any difference to me and that we could if she wanted to” (pg. 40). He is so indifferent to everything and everyone, that he would marry his girlfriend Marie because she wanted to. This indifference is the main reason for tension in the novel, because it leads him to feeling no sadness for the loss of his mother, and later to no remorse for shooting a man. Why did the author make him both the antagonist and the
1. Setting/Matter: The Stranger by Albert Camus, is set in Algeria in the 1940’s. The setting is important to the story, because it sets the stage for…..
2. Plot: The story is about a man named Monsieur Meursault. In the first part of the book, it is revealed that he recently lost his mother. After her funeral, he returns to his normal routine of life, and he even gets a girlfriend, named Marie, and a new friend named Raymond. They all go to a beach one afternoon, where Raymond and Meursault have a run in with a couple Arab’s, one of which is the brother of Raymond’s mistress. Raymond fights the brother, and almost shoots him, but Meursault stops him. Later, Meursault returns to the scene of the fight, and discover’s the Arab to still be there. All of a sudden, he shoots the Arab dead a total of 5 times. In the second part of the book, Meursault is now in jail and is waiting for a trial. A lot of the people he speaks to tell him to believe in god, and show remorse (he isn’t remorseful). This frequently comes up during his trial to use as evidence and to show that he is a monster. He ends up being tried as …show more content…
Characters: The Protagonist of The Stranger is the main character Monsieur Meursault. He is not like other protagonists, because he is hated by almost everyone in the book. Along with the odd protagonist angle of the story, the antagonist is also Meursault. Meursault is too cold, too truthful, and too indifferent. “That evening Marie came by to see me and asked me if I wanted to marry her. I said it didn’t make any difference to me and that we could if she wanted to” (pg. 40). He is so indifferent to everything and everyone, that he would marry his girlfriend Marie because she wanted to. This indifference is the main reason for tension in the novel, because it leads him to feeling no sadness for the loss of his mother, and later to no remorse for shooting a man. Why did the author make him both the antagonist and the