Guillaume

=Chapter 1 =

The reference to "a soldier" tells us that the novel was based during World War II. Soldiers were around the place during that period of time.

He infrequently visited his mother because she was a hassle to him, to go visit her he had to lost his weekend, ask for time out from his job and additionally take a two hours bus.

In the first place neither her or him were brought up religious or became so. This made it weird to him that his mother demanded a religious burial.

Not wanting to open the casket to view the body is not a normal action and therefore it is an abnormal behavior that he doesn't want to view the body. Reasons for such behavior could be that he is not well balanced in his mind. He doesn't hesitate when asked to see the body, straight 'no'.

The Caretaker is French and he is in his 60s (66 i believe)

A vigil's role is over look coffins, lasts day & night.

=Chapter 2 =

I would first of all try to talk to my friend and find out how he was grieving about the tragedy and try to re conciliate him. I would find it rude in a way that he would lack acknowledgement about such an incident. In accordance, it could be seen as a mark of emotional strength as it shows that he can keep his emotions and feelings inside, as opposed to affecting other people with his moods.

 Within the first two chapters, Camus uses many short, rapid sentences with no emotions such as in this quote: 'I kissed her, but badly'. He doesn't focus on the character's emotions or feelings but oppositely Camus talks about his actions, more exactly what he does to kill time. When he gets home he does not show joy of his achievements and goes back to his daily routine.

Meursault has a lack of emotion and doesn't show feelings for what is important, in contrast he talks about the activities occurring in the surroundings, an example is that in the Funeral. Instead of grieving for his mother being buried, he explains how the sun is rapidly rising into the sky, which shows the lack of affecting he has for his mother.

=**Chapter 3 ** =

= I personally know how old my mother is, the fact that Meursault doesn’t know how old she is proves that he had little feelings towards her, this comes to show how inhuman his actions may appear from time to time. However I believe that as he approximated his mother’s age to be true to himself shows that at least he has his self-esteem and self-confidence. If he were to lie about it, he would appear as if he was afraid of what others thought about him. =   Overall he doesn’t appear to care about what others think about him or his courses of action, especially due to his unique thoughts and feelings. In his life he doesn’t do much, just goes on with his everyday life, minding his own business and keeping his life to himself without getting too involved with other people, friends or relatives   After making judgments about his boring and unique life, this turn of event comes as a surprise to the reader. At first it would appear as Meursault has an unpredictable behaviour, however now that he has spontaneously jumped onto a truck shows that Emmanuel has a negative influence on Meursault   This shows once again that Mersault stays true to himself, and has somewhat respect towards others, as he does not judge their actions. In this case anything happening between Salamano and his dog does not regard him, therefore he does not place any judgment. Additionally it could be seen, as he does not believe Salamano’s actions are bad as Mersault himself does not follow the ways of society, just he may believe Salamano is doing.   Dear Diary,  A man, called Raymond, invited me over to his apartment, which was nearby. We shared dinner and some wine together like two grown men, and he was to explain a story in the close past. Firstly how he had fought with this man because Raymond refused to accept this man’s insult on Raymond about how he was a coward. Next he explained how he used to have a girl whom he fed and kindly gave money to help her with her financial situation, in total I think he was giving her a thousand Francs a month, a rather large sum of money. She was using it for rent, cloth and food, basic necessities. However, like every story, there was deception involved, the girl was using her money to buy lottery tickets, this quite badly frustrated Raymond even as he was sharing the story. Anyhow he decided to punish her for such and beat her. Now having sobered up after the wine I realize how much of an overreaction such action was. A girl? No one beats a girl, however the motive was strong as he was giving her a large sum of finance. Nevertheless I was astonished that Raymond even asked me to write a letter to her to make her feel bad, in the black books he goes!   <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Dear Diary, <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> I have just had a few glasses of wine at Raymond’s. A nice guy he is, he offered me cigarettes. He fed me a story about his challenge with a man, which he ended up fighting with. I understand nevertheless, this man had insulted Raymond calling him a coward. Then he next explain a story about his girlfriend, ex I would say, and how he kindly gave her a monthly payment to help her survive, paying the rent and food. In my eyes, a good person. Then he gave me the deceiving part of his story when he explain she was using his money for different purposes, buying tickets of lottery if I remember... This came as a shock and he beat her for such, under the situation a normal act. Anyhow he was kind in entertaining me with such stories. Next he asked me to write her a letter to make her feel sorry, I respectfully declined as I believe this matter did not involve me, however I gave in as he was a nice man and I wanted to please him in return for the dinner, cigarettes and wine he offered me. <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> The two diary entries differ, as I would have a worsening attitude towards the story of how he beat till bleeding a girl and additionally wants to punish her even more. However Mersault would not judge Raymond as he does not do so, in contrast he simply rejoices himself with the story he is fed with by Raymond and the cigarettes. = =

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-color: white; color: #ff0000; font-size: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Chapter 4 ** =

T hese two situations show a strong contrast as the two people are completely different, one (Mersault) does not make any judgment and therefore has no emotions towards anything (ex his mother’s death) and the other one (Raymond) who over reacts to situations as affected by his emotions (beating his mistress after deception). When he is asked if he loves Marie he explains that love and hate does not mean anything as being emotionally attached would involve judgment, which is not him. It just as if he quickly agrees with whatever is asked of him to be put out of the position where he is asked to place judgment <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Mersault perceives Raymond as being friendly as Raymond accepts the way Mersault acts and always agrees with Raymond as if he always think the same as Raymond, however Mersault does this with everyone to make things simpler. Raymond however likes this attribute and they therefore get along friendly.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-color: white; color: #ff0000; font-size: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Chapter 5 (Rational) ** =

<span style="background-color: white; color: #ff0000; font-size: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;"> =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-origin: initial; color: #ff0000; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Rational ** = 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).