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    The Stranger Response

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    The Stranger The Eye is the window to ones soul. The significance of the eye is that it can display emotions without spoken words. Humans cannot control the inner actions of their eyes because the eyes are apart of the body that moves unintentionally. I chose to draw an abstract art of the eye to help the reader visualize and understand Meursault’s emotions throughout the story. I also chose to use abstract art because it was an art movement that became popular in the 1940s. During this time period

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    Heat In The Stranger

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    In Camus’ The Stranger, the heat consistently symbolizes Meursault’s emotions, shown through imagery and personification. On several occasions throughout the book, Meursault always mentions heat, therefore, heat can be identified as a motif. The heat pushes him to his breaking point. During his mother’s funeral procession, Meursault mentions, “the glare from the sky was unbearable” (Source A). This imagery portrays Meursault’s psychological pain and depression, but he cannot bear it. It is like

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    The Stranger Symbolism

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    “The stranger” is a movie based on crime and it is about a investigator Wilson from war crimes commission travelling to Harper, Connecticut to find a Nazi named, Franz Kindler. The movie begin with many men including a man named Wilson discussing about whether to set free a prisoner named Meinike. Wilson suggest other member of Allied War Commission to let Meinike escape so that they could track down Franz Kindler, who was a high level architect of holocaust. Wilson managed to follow Meinike to Harper

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    In the written texts “Myth of Sisyphus” and “The Stranger”, French author Albert Camus vividly portrays parallelism between his fictional characters. Through Meursault’s narrative and time spent in jail in “The Stranger”, Meursault reveals his emotionally removed temperament, earning himself the status of an outsider. In contrast to Meursault, Sisyphus was never labeled as an outsider, but did not bring joyous thoughts among the gods; Sisyphus was a burden to the gods. Although Meursault and Sisyphus

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    thought to be a philosophical theory that places emphasis on the experiences of the individual as they take advantage of their ability to utilize free will. However, when analyzing existentialism, it means so much more. Albert Camus, author of The Stranger and An Absurd Reasoning, explores deeper into the day to day life of an existentialist, and the questions they may find themselves asking. Physicist and author of The Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene, provides a critique of Albert Camus, agreeing

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    The Characterization of Meursault in The Stranger In The Stranger, the author Albert Camus, initially portrays Meursault as a monotonous character lacking emotions toward the events surrounding his life. Meursault reflects indifference at the thought of his girlfriend 's proposal in addition to not demonstrating empathy in relation to Raymond 's abusive actions toward his girlfriend. Even so, Meursault 's character gradually develops from a detached individual to a dynamic person as secondary characters

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    The major theme of The Stranger, by Albert Camus, was absurdum; especially as it builds meaning and importance relative to the understanding of protagonist, Meursault. Absurdum was the philosophical idea that people make vain efforts to rationalize an irrational existence and universe. Absurdum was important for developing society’s reaction towards Meursault, the meaninglessness of the universe, and the abandonment of hope. Meursault killed a man and was taken to a court to be tried for his crime;

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    Isolationism in The Stranger and The Thief Though there are multiple elements in both Albert Camus’ The Stranger, and Fuminori Nakamura’s The Thief that allow each author to develop their novels, none is more important that the deployment of isolationism. Though both Camus and Nakamura give their protagonists isolated states at an award winning level, Camus does so in a better way through the addition of how Meursault copes with elements of the absurd. One of the first things readers notice about

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    It engenders21 a sense of hope within viewers, since unscrupulous22 people become aware that what they have done is not acceptable. However, the courtroom scene in The Stranger further emphasizes that truth is simply an illusion, for truth is relative and what might be truth to one person can be false to another. For example, in society, it is truth that a “morally good person” is one that is benevolent23 and genial24.

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    The Stranger In the literary world, there are specific qualifications that distinguish a work as having Advanced Placement Merit. These qualities include being interesting to many readers, having a well-developed theme, and connecting with a large scale audience. One novel that easily fits this description: Albert Camus’ novel, The Stranger. In The Stranger, a man loses his mother and later unexplainably kills a man on a beach, all the while. In the fashion of an existentialist novel

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