Dear, Albert Camus
I have latterly finished your piece of art titled "The Stranger" I have never taken the time to analyze a book the way I did yours. Your books challenged me to think out side the boxes and see the world in a greater different perspective then I use to see it. I now question life its self after reading this book.
From the characters, to even the title, everything about this book was brilliantly laid out. "The Stranger" characterizes the main character in the book. Meursault sees the word in such a different perspective then the rest of society isolating him from the world making it seem like he's a stranger or an outcast because of his realistic views on life. I questioned the character a lot at the beginning of the story because of his emotional aspect toward things and situations that a regular person would act different towards, like his mothers death or Marie's love towards him. "maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. "(3) or"I answered the same way a did the last time..."(41) His tone sounds so indifferent so calm so careless about things that should make you feel so much emotion. Makes the reader question why and get so deeply involved in the book. Thought the book the main character has a emotional and physical connection with the weather page 57 paragraph two "There was the same dazzling red glare..." shows you the relationship between the weather and the characters feeling toward what he was about to do. You can feel the fear he has by the way he described the sun hitting his face "It seemed to me as if the sky split open...My whole begin to tensed and I squeezed my hand around the revolver." (59) as if the sun was trying to stop him from killing the man but his body wouldn't let him.
Part 2 of the book when everything starts to come together and make sense. This part of the book is when everything you knew about the world changes and your left with a blank mind saying nothing more but, "wow." when said "I realized then that a man who had lived only one day..." (79) get you thinking that humans can get used to ever type of environment they are placed in and time is the key to help you overcome, sadness, discomfort, or change. "no, there was no way out , and no one can imagine what nights in prison are like" (81) he quotes what one of the nurse had told him at his mothers funeral. knowing the feeling of being in prison I feel like the character was trying to say know one knows how others lives unless you liked there life's or you get used to a environment you don't see yourself living any other way. Just like your mind sets, you don't change unless you are faced with a situation that makes you change.
"I had the stupid urge to cry.." is when the character realizes how different he is from the world how his thoughts are nothing like what his society what's his to think. during his jury they kept on reminiscing on his behavior during his mothers death. The jury wanted a reason his behavior the jury or his society can not except his actions as just something that happened because they are stuck on there is an explanation for everything, but to Meursault's isolated soul there wasn't. "Deep down I knew perfectly well that it doesn't much matter whether you die at thirty or at seventy..." to Meursault human life was meaning less, we all are born live and die. Not all the same way but we are bound to end up in the ground "For everything to be consummated..." (123) This ending given a sense of relief, as if the character is at peace with himself knowing we will all face the same sentence at the ends of our life journey's.
sincerely,
Yohana Olivas
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