Samir

Chapter 1: __**1.What does the reference to "a soldier" tell you about the time period of the story?**__ The reference to a soldier tells us that the period of time is around 1939-1945, during the Second World War. **2.**__**After Meursault arranged for his mother to live in a nursing home, why did he visit her so infrequently?**__ Meursault visited his mother infrequently because she lived too far. **3.** __**Why was it odd that Madam Meursault desired a religious burial?**__ Because according to Meursault she was not religious. **4.** __**In this context, an open casket to view the body is the norm, however, Meursault does not want to see it. Suggests reasons for why he would respond in this way. Is this normal behavior?**__ Meursault did not want to see the body of his mother because, an open casket funeral is a christian way of a funeral, and to him she was not religious. He believed she had changed while she was living at the old people’s home. __**5. Where is the caretaker from? His age?**__ The caretaker is from Paris, France and is 64 years old. __ **6**. __ __**What is the purpose of holding a vigil? How long does it last?**__  The purpose of a vigil is for people to pay respects to the deceased, the vigil lasts for one day and one night. __**7. Describe Thomas Perez’s relationship with Maman. Provide a relevant quote.**__ Thomas Perez and Meurault’s mother were close, they were ‘inseparable’. __**8.Describe the journey to the church. How long did it take? How was the casket transported? Use a quote in your answer.**__ The journey to the church took a long time.

Extended Chapter 1 questions: __1.The narration is sharp, concise and to the point. Mainly simple action verbs are used, in the past tense, for example, “I caught the two o’clock bus. It was very hot. I ate at Celeste’s restaurant, as usual.” There is very little dialogue. This allows the reader to learn about Mersault through his actions/reactions, rather than his thoughts or feelings. What tone is Camus establishing?__ The author Camus throughout the novel uses phrases or sentences which show lack of emotion. Camus portrays the character as someone who is more concerned about what is going on around him. An example of using short phrases of sentences which lack emotion is ‘Mother died today, or yesterday’ this shows that the character has no emotion even towards his mother’s death. __2.Note how often Mersault falls asleep/dozes with reference to his description of the environment in which he falls asleep (pg 10 – “I had to run for the bus. It was probably all this dashing about and then the jolting and the smell of petrol and the glare of the sky reflecting off the road that made me doze off.”). Once again, he is heavily influenced by elements of the situation. Describe a time when you fell asleep uncontrollably. How does this help you to connect with Mersault?__ A bus is a place where many people fall asleep, it might be because of the movement of the bus or just because we are really tired. I usually fall asleep in the buss when I am either reading a book or listening to music. This helps us connect with Mersault because we also have the feeling of tiredness on the bus. The last sentence of the chapter shows us that Mersault, even though is seen as an emotionless character, is still able to show emotion. His ‘joy’ also shows that he gains happiness through being by himself. The last sentence also shows that every human shows emotion.
 * __3.In contrast, the final sentence of the chapter is unusually long. Interestingly, we finally get a glimpse into the “joy” that Mersault is feeling now that he can “go to bed and sleep for a whole twelve hours.” What do we learn about Mersault through this?__ **

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Chapter 2: __**1.Who does Meursault meet the day after his mother is buried?**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The day after his Mother is buried Meursault meets Marie, the woman whom he fancies.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**2.On page 21, what hint is the reader given as to where Meursault lives?**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The hint which the reader is given is that he lives in a warm place, by the coast.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**3.Describe Meursault’s Sunday routine? What does this demonstrate about his character/personality? Use quotes in your answer.**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Sunday is a day of relaxing, and a day for family and friends. Meursault hates sundays because he has no family, and has no emotions to enjoy the day.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**4. Page 28: “I realized that I’d managed to get through another Sunday, that mother was now buried, that I was going to go back to work and that, after all, nothing had changed.” Imagine a tragedy that has just struck a friend. The next day, your friend comes to school as if nothing has happened. What would you say to your friend? How would you react to their lack of acknowledgement?**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">If a friend of mine would return to school so quickly after the death of their mother I would be really shocked. I would not understand why he returned so soon. It would be awkward talking to them, and I would not know what to say, but I would try to cheer them up, by trying to make them think of something else.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**5.Despite chapters 1 and 2 being poles apart in terms of content (chapter 1 focuses on the funeral, whereas 2 is about a day at the beach with a girl), an indifferent tone is prevalent in both. Explain how Camus uses language to achieve this.**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">In Chapter 1 Camus mostly uses phrases and sentences which show Meursault’s lack of emotion. In Chapter 2 he continues to use phrases which show his lack of feelings of emotions, an example is when he kisses the girl whom he fancied ‘I kissed her, but badly’.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**6.Give some examples of Camus’ use of imagery. Note how this is used in place of Meursault’s emotions.**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Camus uses imagery to describe the weather, this shows that he is focusing on an irrelevant thing. He also focuses on weather during his mother’s funeral which is odd because it is supposed to be a time to think about his mother.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Extended Chapter 2 question:

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**1.Because absurdists believe that life is meaningless, the death of Meursault’s mother doesn’t affect him because that is what is expected. Give further detail of how the novel (so far) is an example of an absurdist text.**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Another example of absurdism is when Mersaults brings Marie back to his house, it seems he is showing some emotion until she leaves. When she leaves instead of thinking about the day, he says that he is ‘annoyed’ because it is a ‘Sunday’ the day he hates the most.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Chapter 3:

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**1.It's Meursault's first day back at work and his boss, following the socially expected rules of human behavior, asks Meursault about his mother. When asked how old his mother was, Meursault answers with "about sixty". Do you know how old your mother is? Explain how Meursault would rather be true to himself and approximate his mother's age, rather than follow social protocol.**__ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Meursault does not know the exact age of his mother due to their lack of communication before she died. The age which he states ’47’ shows that he did not want to give just a random age.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**2.How does this reflect his outlook in the text thus far? Keep this quote in mind - it will appear later in the book…**__ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Meursault does not like lying, he always speaks his mind, examples are smoking at a funeral, not knowing the day of his mother’s death or age. It also demonstrates that he is a social outcast.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**3.Meursault displays a moment of spontaneity when he jumps on the truck following Emmanuel's suggestion. How might this add to his characterization?**__ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The moment of spontaneity when Meursault jumps on the truck following Emmanuel’s suggestion, shows that he might still care for his mother and he believes that death can happen at any moment. Meursault also does what he told, so he did what Emmanuel suggested which was to jump on the truck.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**4.Many characters comment negatively on Salamano and his dog, however, Meursault never judges. What does this tell you about him?**__ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Many of the character say that Salamano is a horrible person because of how he treats his dog, but because Meursault does not have morals he does see Salamano as a bad person and so he does not comment negatively about Salamano

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**5.Imagine Raymond walks in the door and shares his story with you. Write a single diary entry, logging your reaction to his grotesque story**__ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Dear Diary; <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">As I was coming back home I met my neighbor Raymond and we had a conversation. Raymond began talking about his mistress whom he believes is having an affair. I was shocked to find out he had a mistress because I had never seen her here in this building. He suspected she was having an affair because he had noticed items in her apartment which she could not afford and she had no job or no way of income so he thought another man was buying her the items. He then told me he had to show her not to have any other relations with men by beating and abusing her until she bled, and at that point I was really worried. I also thought to myself ‘why on earth is he telling me this’, but I just kept on listening to his story as I did not want to anger him. He then asked if I would a letter to her, so it would look like I was the person she was having the affair with, so he could punish her, I was completely shocked that he would ask me such a thing, I barely know them. I said no to writing the letter.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">__**6.Now you are Meursault. Write a single diary entry, logging your reaction to Raymond's story. Emulate Camus' style (note - these stories seem to have no impact on Meursault - he is happy to be fed. He is, however, affected by his physical surroundings such as the cigarettes and wine).**__

Dear Diary; As I was heading out of my apartment I saw Raymond, he had blood on him. He said that the blood is his mistress’s, he beat her because he believes she is having an affair. He suspected she was having an affair because he had noticed items in her apartment which she could not afford and she had no job or no way of income so he thought another man was buying her the items. He then told me he had to show her not to have any other relations with men by beating and abusing her until she bled, I thought it was right what he did, he cannot just let her have an affair. He then said it was the first time he had done this, and I did not believe him, but I just agreed because I was not really interested and I was tired. He then asked if I would a letter to her, so it would look like I was the person she was having the affair with, so he could punish her, I was really tired so I agreed. We then had dinner. After dinner and writing the letter he went home.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**Comment on how the two differ.**__ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I would not be as calm as Meursault, as you can see in my diary entry I am completely against what Raymond did to his mistress, and this is because I have emotion where as Meursault lacks emotion.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Chapter 4:

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**1.Explain how Marie and Meursault's harmonious morning is juxtaposed/contrasted with Raymond's fight with his mistress. What is the significance of this happening right after Meursault declares that he did not love Marie but that "it didn't mean anything"? (Consider Meursault's reactions to both love and hate in your response)**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Meursault acts completely different than the rest of the society an example is him acting neutral to everyone, where as Raymond is angry towards his mistress. Meursault also goes with whatever he is asked to do.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**2.Summarize Raymond and Meursault's night out, leading up to: "I found him very friendly towards me and I thought it was a good moment." (pg 40). Describe your thoughts on Meursault at this point.**__ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Meursault and Raymond are considered to be friends, as they both were friendly to each other. Meursault agreed with Raymond and Raymond also agreed with Meursault. Meursault did not change his behavior, he acted just as normal. Meursault also sees Raymond as a friend.

Chapter 6:

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__**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.**__ Chapter 6 shows that there is lack of emotion, compared to the other chapters. The tone is very depressing, a quote to show the depression of this chapter is when marie says that he has ‘a face like a funeral’. Another difference of this chapter compared to others is how Meursault is behaving an example is Marie having to forcefully wake him up.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;">__**2.Give detail of Meursault’s physical state leading up to the shooting.**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Meursault was not at 100% leading up to the shooting. The heat had got the better of him and he began to feel a bit dehydrated. He also had a headache ‘having a rather thick head’ this was because he drank to much wine. The heat from the sun made he feel sleepy and not thinking about what he was doing this then shows that he did not know what he was doing when he shot the Arab.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__**Rationale of Collage:**__ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">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 Meursault and the light from the sun causes him to kill the arab. I used a picture of washing dishes because as Meursault 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.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> 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