The Stranger

in order for a person to do something evil they would first have to have evil intentions. Meaning they would not make that “mistake” unless they have thought out what they were going to do and what they wanted the outcome to be. In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus his characters Old Salamano, Raymond, and Meursault among others are faced with the results of their evil actions. And they see their reflection of their self as inherently evil. For example, when Old…

“My mother suggested I make friends, but I didn’t fit in and had no idea where to begin.” Throughout the nerve-wrecking, book called Stranger at Home by Christy Jordan-Fenton, I learned about a young Inuitalkivalk girl name Olemaun, that has finally returned home from the outsiders’ school. Unfortunately, when Olemaun comes back home, her family had moved to a new town. Where Olemaun has a struggle for a while, due to the fact she is an “outsider”. Also forgetting how speak her own mother…

Throughout the first unit it is evident that the focal point is how man finds identity and purpose in the face of the often random and cruel nature of existence. In the novel The Stranger, Meursault was very blunt when Marie asked why he was mourning. This section emphasizes Meursault’s direct and honest nature, and indicates that he is easily adaptable to life changes. He presents a life-goes-on attitude, which the reader may not understand at first glance because of the recent death of his…

The event was when I came to USA. That I was the stranger in village. The village was that country view lane. Nobody know me for 5 months and keep away from me. After 5 months they still walked away from me. The people still ignore me and never talked to me. The black people insulted me when they know me. When people don’t know me they were nice to me. The people told me “you don’t belong here we going to kick you out”. When I came back home I was getting upset for 2 hours…

Breaking the Rules With The Stranger: The Difference Between Perception and Reality The article, ”Stranger’ by Toni Morrison, narrates her encounter with a stranger. She explains the impact a stranger can leave behind, based on her own experience, how she experience welcome as she approached the stranger, and wished they could meet again. She felt “cheated, puzzled and also amused” (136) when the stranger never shows up as promised. Which kept her wondering that most of time the people we think…

In his novel “The Stranger”, Albert Camus gives expression to his philosophy of the absurd. The reason of this essay is to analyze absurdism and its relevance to the Stranger. The novel is a first-individual record of the life of M. Meursault from the season of his mom's passing up to a period obviously just before his execution for the homicide of an Arab. The focal subject is that the essentialness of human life is seen just in light of mortality, or the reality of death; and in demonstrating…

In modern society, we live with the constant struggle of people attached to their electronic devices becoming closer to social isolation. On public transportation, realistically, the number of times we would talk to a stranger daily is none. In the article, “Hello Stranger,” Elizabeth W. Dum and Michael Norton argue with the conducted social experiment to show the difference in experience between acting sociable or isolated. The results given proves that the way people act in public…

In the last few chapters of Talking to Strangers, Danielle Allen makes her case for political friendship and how we can transform mistrust and fear into trust generation and friendship. As we have discussed in previous weeks, Allen feels that, above all else, mistrust and lack of reciprocity are the two bad habits that keep society from progressing to a state of wholeness and peace. In order to drastically change the citizenry, Allen suggests, citizens must learn and adopt the concept of…

An Existentialist is someone who exercises their ability to be a free person, and takes responsibility for their own actions in life. Meursault, the main character of “The Stranger” written by Albert Camus, was not originally an Existentialist, but the events that occurred throughout the story forced him to contemplate the true meaning of life, and unintentionally transformed him into one. While this does lead to his death, he is at peace with what he has done in his life, and decides to just…

Throughout Albert Camus’s The Stranger, women characters are not portrayed as important because of who they are, but because of what outcomes they allow Camus to create within the novel. The three significant women characters present in the novel include Meursault's mother, Marie, and Raymond’s girlfriend. With each of these women, it can been seen that they personally are not essential to the story, but the actions they produce are vital to the stories meaning. The portrayal of women as…