Chapter+6

1. Write a paragraph describing how the tone at the start of the chapter foreshadows the shooting of the Arab. Include techniques/examples in your response. // Eg as a start.... // Meursault is a man who sleeps and wakes when he chooses. This morning, however, Marie had some trouble waking Meursault and when she does, he is described to have a “a face like a funeral”. While the reader is never privvy to Meursault's emotional state, this simile describes him as being in a dark mood.

2. Give detail of Meursault's __physical__ state leading up to the shooting. - "I realized that I only had to turn around and it would all be over" - this shows that everything could have been completely different if he just turned around and went home. Such a simple decision can change the direction of your life completely.

3. As a class, list any references to the sun in this chapter and the effects. We will have one complete table which you can paste to your own page.

“I was concentrating on the sun doing me good” pg. 52 "the warmth of her body and the heat of the sun made me dose off a bit" pg. 53 “the sun was shining almost vertically on to the sand and the glare from the sea was unbearable.” Pg 54
 * ** Quote with page number ** || ** Literary feature and effect ** ||
 * Pg 49 – “the bright morning sunshine hit me like a slap in the face”

‘I could feel the sun peeling awaythe last few layers of water which trickled down into my mouth’ pg 52 ‘We saw Mason making his way back to the beach to stretch out in the sun’ pg 52 ‘I wasn’t thinking about anything because the sun beating down on my bare head was making me feel sleepy’. Pg 54  “pinned to the ground beneath the sun” p55 “Thesun was crashing down onto the sea” p56 “All this time there was just the sun and the silence” p57 “When Raymond handed me his gun, the sun glinted of it” p57 “amid the sun, the sand and the sea” p57 “my head ringing from the sun” p58 “in defiance of the sun” p58 “to escape from the sun” p58 “his whole body in the sun” p58 “still the same sun” p59 “reverberating in the sun” p59 “the sun was beginning to burn my cheeks” p59 “same sun as on the day of mother’s funeral” p59 “I would not get out of the sun with one step” p59 “held it out towards me in the sun” p60 “cymbals the sun was clashing against me” p60 “I shook of the sweat and sun” p60 || This simile personifies the sun as it rather harshly, “slaps” Meursault in the face. Meursault usually enjoys the sunshine and this is the first instance in which it he enjoys the sun, having a positive influence on his day. contrasting from the previous "slapping him on his face" the sun and warmth makes him comfortable and wants to fall asleep. he is heavily influenced byt he sun. also realting to the fact that he always sleeps that reflects how heavily he is effected by the sun and even the reflection from the sea made it unbearable from the sea. the "glare" or negative effects of the sun is reflecting drama and violence which takes place on the beach ||


 * COLLAGE RATIONALES **

** GIANLUCA ** In chapter six, Marie becomes one of the pain focus points and a lot of the chapter is concentrated on her. Camus is on purpose making her one of the main subjects because he wants to show that Meursault is finally caring about one person and she is the first one that he has ever cared about and showed his care. Also we can see that Meursault is different, he starts by showing that he is not driven by his physicals needs for now which shows that he is not acting like before at the moment. The picture with the white dress gives the image of the white dress that Marie was wearing and the white colour emphasizes happiness and joyfulness. Also it is important that we notice the kiss between Marie and Meursault that shows that they are truly happy together and that he is showing that he does care about her and that he does believe in love and happiness and he is showing it all. This is one of Meursault happiest moments through out his all life. After all this happy moments and care shown in this chapter, something happens which completely turns around the ongoing of the situation. Meursault is involved in a fight with the “Arabs” which sadly causes him to kill one of them and commit murderer. Everything turns bad on him and all of this happened due to something that he wasn’t even involved in. He calls these people Arabs without knowing anything about them and just uses the same name to call all of them in the same way which draws attention again back to Meursault way of thinking, his close minded, ignorant and the way that he things without looking at the facts. Also with the picture of the smile I wanted to show that this day did have really happy moments and that finally even if for a short time he did realise what love is and experienced it. The picture of the three men on the beach is to accentuate on what kind of people he had the conflict with and shows which ones were the people he had defined as arabs.

In the collage I chose a picture of the sun, i did this because the sun and how unbearable it was that day is decried in detail, which suggests that it had an effect on Mersault, and his decision making. Under the sun i put a picture o a sandy beach because in chapter 6 of the Outsider Mersault spends some time in a beach, he also seemed to enjoy the beach quite a lot as he agreed to spend some more time there in the future, this is a rare thing as Mersault doesn’t usually commit himself to such things, and he never talks about things that please him. Therefore the fact that he describes the beach is rather striking. The beach is also important, as it was where he murdered the Arab that was following Raymond, when he pulled out his knife. Hence the picture of an Arab man and a pistol, which was used t shoot that Arab man 4 times.
 * CHRISTOS **

** Daan ** I have noticed that Marie plays a very big part in this chapter. She has a good 3 pages dedicated to her in this chapter. This is probably because Mr. Meursault realizes that Marie is really the only person in his life that he loved and maybe even the only one he ever cared about. Another important moment in the book is the kiss Marie and Mr Meursault have in the sea. It is the last time in the book we see them together and happy, showing that he really does care about love and does have emotions. This final happy moment in the book could be considered Meursault’s happiest moment in his life. He has everything that he wants at that moment, a nice girlfriend, the sun, the beach and being able to doze off at any time in the day. However, this moment is immediately followed up by the moment where everything is taken away all at once. The fight with the Arabs causes him to commit a murder due to a conflict he wasn’t even involved in. However, this fight also gives us an indication of how closed-minded Meursault is. He generalises the people by saying ‘Arabs’. This again reflects back on Meursaults way of ‘black or white’ thinking.

First of all, I chose to follow the description in the book to illustrate Marie as the character; with long hair and a white linen dress. I choose to include marie as she is one of the people Mersault has met that had a level of emotional impact on him. Thus making her rather special throughout the book. For representing her face, I chose a smiling cartoon illustrated character because there was never a clear description of what her face looked like. I chose a smile to represent the happiness she was feeling before the incident when Raymond got hurt. Then I chose to later a few teardrops to represent how she cries a lot. For Raymond, since he was one of the main characters happened in that chapter, again, I used the descriptions of the book, “white t-shirt and blue pants” to represent the main parts of his body, and a joker smile. In my imagination during the fight he got hurt on the mouth, maybe it got cut since there were bubbling with blood when he was speaking. The background scenery I chose the peaceful beach with a really bright sun “slapping” his face. A man with a cartoon face and a bullet pierced body will be representing the Arabian man who was shot my Mersault with blood under it. Mersault himself would be represented by a stick figure, since he hasn’t gave any description for what himself was wearing, his head is represented by by a coffin when marie described his face as “a face of a funeral”. A cigarette is placed on the coffin to represent the frequency of Mersault smoking.
 * Gloria **

The main focus of my collage is the massive sun located right at the center of the piece, to ow the important role in which light plays in this chapter. Going from left to right, the sun and the light changes from a pure, blinding white to a bloody, haunting red. This change follows the change in the storyline of chatper 6, with the left side representing the start of the chapter where Meursault, Marie and Raymond together arrive at the plateau and makes their way to the chaplet which is located in the center of the collage. The stones are yellow and white as described by Meursault, and everything on the left side is extremely bright and almost blinding white. As the chapter proceeds, however, we feel the tension together with the changing tone and colour of the surrounding. The sea that was once calm and motionless now feels like a 'breath of fire', filled with motion. I think this may be closely linked to Meursault's feelings, and the pathetic fallacy of fire and red and hotness signifies his anger. The right side of the collage is made of a bloody red to symbolise the death and violence that took place, and the sun here is made of hearts throbbing and veins, as Meursault described the sun had caused him to feel tense and sweaty. The contrast between the calm and peaceful mood of the left and the violent and bloody right side shows that this is the climax of the novel, changing from peace to violence in a single chapter, making this the most dramatic chapter of the book, hence the dramatic change in colour and tone in my collage. The vertical beams of sunlight also represents the way Meursault was feeling, like there is no where to hide, the sun and light are there looking down on him, there is no escape and it is pressing down on him, as he describes in the novel.
 * Maria **


 * PAUL **

When Marie goes swimming with Meursault, he starts describing even more accurately than his usual observations. He feels connected with her because of their common pleasure of swimming and again feels physically attracted by her (“I felt her legs around me and I wanted her”). The “joy” of that swimming is incorporated in my collage with the swimming trunks. After Meursault has satisfied his physical needs by having lunch, the tone of the chapter turns into the negative again. The sun is again a negative symbol (“the glare was unbearable”), preventing him from thinking and making him sleepy (“the sun beating down on my bare head…”). My collage shows this with the sun having an angry face and being in front of a bloodstain. Directly after that, Masson, Raymond and Meursault have their first encounter with the Arabs. Even during the fight, Meursault is still describing the negative effects of the sun on the situation (“The sand was so hot that it seemed to have turned red”), red being a symbol for blood, foreshadowing what is about to happen. After Raymond had been helped by a doctor, Meursault and Raymond have another walk along the beach. They meet the Arabs again but do not encounter them again. All Meursault notices while watching the Arabs is “the sun and the silence”, which again shows us how significantly influencing the sun is on Meursault. On their way back to the chalet, Meursault decides to turn around and walk along the beach again. This decision is strongly influenced by the sun’s effect on him (“With my head ringing from the sun, I was unable to face the effort of having to having to climb the wooden staircase again … but it was so hot that it was equally unbearable just standing there in the blinding rain pouring down from the sky”). He is directed to this action by the sun and this action is the first step towards the murder of the Arab. He tries to escape the sun at a cool spring band meets the Arab again. He thinks about shooting him and “realized that he could just turn away, but the sun was pressing against him from behind”. Again the sun drives him towards the murder. Meursault then moves towards the Arab “because he could not stay the burning feeling any longer”, provoking the Arab to draw his knife. This action of Meursault is directly controlled by the sun, as well. All he can feel then are the “cymbals the sun was clashing against him”. He loses control (“that was when everything shook”) and shoots the Arab, driven by the sun to do so. The sun controlling him is shown by Meursault, a marionette, being attached by strings to his “puppet master” the sun. This adds to Meursault’s strange characteristics as it is more than strange for a man to let his actions be dictated by the weather.

In Chapter 6, Mersault along with Raymond and Marie take a bus to Masson’s beach house, and are scared by a group of Arabs staring at them whilst they board the bus. Arriving there they meet Masson’s wife. Mersault and Marie go for a swim together for some quality time together, after this all five of them have lunch. The three men take a stroll on the beach, whilst the two women clean up the dishes. On the beach the men encounter two Arabs, one of them being the brother of Raymond’s Mistress. Rapidly a fight breaks out in which Raymond is injured due to a knife which his adversary pulls out. Quickly as the Arabs flee, Masson and Mersault take Raymond back to the wooden bungalow where the two women are in shock of seeing Raymond in such state, next he is brought to the hospital. **Mersault once again shows a lack of emotions as he simply takes a smoke outside by the beach, as he does not feel like explaining what happened to the two women.** Once Raymond returns from the hospital, he takes a walk on the beach with Mersault following behind, again Raymond encounters the two Arabs but this time he puts out a gun at them. Luckily Mersault manages to talk him into handing the gun over. Thus allowing the Arabs to leave unharmed. However Mersault is not bothered to walk up the stairs back in the beach house and therefore continues walking on the beach to the spring to cool off from the intense heat. Arriving there he meets the Arab and decides to pull out the gun, in reaction the Arab pulls out his knife and the reflection of the knife’s blade causes him to fire upon the Arab, following this, Mersault shoots the __motionless__ body of the Arab four more times. The Red edges contrast the bloody scenes in the chapter. Furthermore the Sun is the master of the scene as it basically masters Mersault, like a marionette. When the sun is too intense it forces Mersault to give in and he changed his thought of mind and actions (the sun in the sand picture overlooking the other images).
 * GUILLAUME **


 * VICTOR **

-the straw hat: this is to represent Raymond and the scene in which Muersualt describes the way he is dressed and his casual straw hat at which Marie giggles. -the sun: to show the significance of the sun, as there are 24 references to it. -the man sunbathing: represents the Arab who was sun bathing. -the beach: this is showing the setting of most of chapter six, which takes place at the beach near Masson’s house. -the knife: as Raymond is stabbed by the Arab -the gun: the one used by Muersualt uses to shoot the Arab -the couple kissing: to represent the on going relationship between Marie and the main character. -the dead guy: to represent the dead Arab.

SAMIR:

The pictures which I have used in my collage center around the main parts of the chapter. I have placed a picture of the sun in the center of the collage because throughout the chapter the word ‘sun’ is regularly mentioned. I also placed a picture of the sun in the center because the heat from the sun is the reason for the anger in mersault and the light from the sun causes him to kill the arab. I used a picture of washing dishes because as mersault and raymond are walking on the beach (encountering the arabs) the women are washing dishes. The photo of a man waiting at the bus illustrates the beginning of the chapter when they are waiting for the bus to go to beach house. I chose the picture of this certain beach house because it resembles the one described in the chapter:wooden.

__ **References to the Sun by Samir, Gianluca, Victor and Daan** __
 * 1) “The bright morning sunshine hit like a slap in the face” page 49
 * 2) “I could feel the sun peeling away” page 52
 * 3) “The heat of the sun made me doze off a bit” page 53
 * 4) “The sun was shining almost vertically onto the sand” page 54
 * 5) “The sun was crashing down onto the sea and the sand” page 56
 * 6) “Amid the sand, the sun and the sea” page 57
 * 7) “The same dazzling red glare” page 58
 * 8) “In defiance of the sun and the drunken haze” page 58
 * 9) “His whole body in the sun” page 58
 * 10) “It was still the same sun” page 59
 * 11) “The sun was beginning to burn my cheeks” page 59
 * 12) “It was the same sun as on the day of my mother’s funeral” page 59
 * 13) “And held it out towards me in the sun” page 59
 * 14) “I wouldn’t get out of the sun with one step” page 59
 * 15) “The whole beach was reverberating in the sun” page 59
 * 16) “All I could feel were the cymbals the sun was clashing against my forehead” page 60
 * 17) “I shook off the sweat and the sun” page 60