Monday, February 23, 2009

Journal Entry 2 Stranger

to me, at least, it seems that Mersault is just going and sleeping a lot of the time. Sometimes that's ok, but, at least to me, you would stay awake when keeping vigil over someone. So it just kind of gives me an impression that he just doesn't care about the things around him. Another thing that he did really made me want to be angry with him as well. During the vigil, he constantly complained about a little old lady that was crying because Mersault's Maman was her close friend. He just got really tired of it and wanted her to be quite. When she finnally did quite down, he basically said, 'Finally she shut up.' That made me thing that Mersault doesn't have a heart, but it also makes me feel a little sad for him because he is not being very open with others. One last thing that got me was when Mersault said that it really didn't feel like anything changed after his mother's death. That made me think that he really just didn't care about the world around him.

I think Camus would create a protagonist like Mersault to give the story a more life like feel. Everyone thinks that when a mother dies, the son or daughter is supposed to be the one that mourns the most, and is always seen with a tear-stained face, and sobs for weeks, etc. Camus shows in this that he wanted to create a story that was different then the mainstream fantasy publications. Also, Camus might have wanted to create a protagonist like Mersault in order to convey a certain message about good and evil in that there really isn't any in real life. There are only situations and how a person percieves them and gets threw them.

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