The Deliberate Stranger Essays

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see" (Thoreau, n.d.). This quote by Henry Thoreau highlights the ability for humans to possess differing perspectives on the same event. While an onerous situation may negatively affect one person, it may have little to no effect on another. In Elie Wiesel's book Night (2006) and the movie "Life is Beautiful" (2000), this reality of differing perspectives is portrayed through the eyes of a father and son as they endure the horrific conditions

Throughout the story of Soldier’s Home, the main character, Harold Krebs, goes through a dynamic change. He starts out as a World War 1 veteran who recently returned home. He wants all the attention as he tells his war stories. He soon realizes that the people around him have lost interest in the stories from combat. He is determined to gain back the attention he thinks he deserves from making lies about the war. Krebs finds that not even his ludacris lies will get him the attention he desires. This

An Examination of Meursault’s Motive in The Stranger Many people who read The Stranger conclude that Meursault’s murder of the Arab was not deliberate because of his passive and apathetic personality within the novel, especially exhibiting emotional indifference to the people around him. His murder of the Arab at first seems to be completely thoughtless and impulsive. It is reasonable to assume that because of his personality, he would not have or develop a motive. However, that could not be

Itzhak Stern It is really hard to find anything about Itzhak from the time before 1938 where he meets Schindler for the first time, because that’s what has had the most meaning in his life. Itzhak was born in Austria, on January 25th, year 1901, nineteenhundredandone. He meets Oskar Schindler in November 1938. Itzhak Stern, bright, proud, and determined, brings out the moral side of Schindler, and Stern’s attitude toward Schindler reflects Schindler’s change throughout the film. Stern recognizes

yourself.” That summed up with our topic, which is absurdity through human existence, a human being should tolerate the absurd condition of human existence. Albert Camus introduces Meursault the protagonist and narrator of the book The Stranger, who is a stranger through society eyes and the title point out his personality in the world of absurdity. Meursault is indifferent and alienates young man to others. Thus, being indifferent does not make him an outsider, in lieu, sui generis, it makes he

The Punta Cana Trip In the morning I wake up around 4:00AM with the biggest excitement ever. I eat pizza because that's the first thing I saw. Then I check if I have everything I need. My grandpa drives to our house and drives us to the airport. When we arive there We all say our goodbyes to our grandpa “ Bye Grandpa ” When we walk in Everywhere long lines!! I turn to my mom and say “ do we really have to go threw all of these lines”!! She replies “ Yes honey”. Hhhhhhhhhhhh!! The first line we

everyone looks for love so that they can find happiness, but mostly they end up losing themselves to an unattended & cruel world where no one cares about them. Even the one to whom you have lost every happiness of your life, he/she would become stranger all of a sudden. For one moment, everything seems unworthy and waste. At that moment, life hits you hard and reality comes into the picture that nothing is permanent in life. That's a bitter truth! Why love asks for sacrifices? Lots of people lose

A short story known as prose fiction displays fully developed themes yet significantly shorter and less elaborate. In The Tiger, S.Rajaratnam, the late Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore conveyed two vital messages through an ingenious use of literary devices. A theme is a central idea that is discussed in a piece of writing and some writing piece may have more than one theme. The two major themes presented by S.Rajaratnam in The Tiger are motherhood and human against nature. Motherhood is the

himself into a bad bet again. After all, Frowndrey had seen Smiley playin with a frog for a good couple weeks at home. Smiley explained what happened with the stranger in camp to his brother. Frowndrey was not happy. Together, they raced through the swamps, the camps, the town hall, and past their neighborhood where Frowndrey had seen the stranger running before. As they were looking far and wide, Smiley tripped on

In Albert Camus’ The Stranger, the author’s absurdist views of life are reflected through the main character Meursault. The reader follows Meursault from his mother’s funeral to his own death, as he exerts his indifference to the world around him. Camus’s employment of motifs represent Meursault’s consciousness of absurdity in a world where everything fails to retain meaning. Nevertheless, humans still seek value in their lives from surrealalities; absurdities that are incapable of immortalising

different way, then in the eyes of an existentialist, you have been degraded and reduced to an object. “We must act and judge in ways that do not violate the actually existing solidarity of mankind” (Bruehl 193). The main protagonist in Albert Camus’ the Stranger, ends up being sent

essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself”. In The Stranger by Albert Camus, he examines the immortality of man; therefore social constructs are unreliable. Social constructs are changed when Meursault does not cry at his mom’s funeral, when he shows no sign of affection when Marie asked him to marry her, and when he has no remorse for killing the Arab. Thus, Camus examines in the novel, The Stranger, what happens to society and the people within it when people do not care

Albert Camus has frequently had death as a staple in his books. This is never more true than in his novel, The Plague. The Plague’s main character is Dr. Rieux. He is a hardworking man with little time for self worry. Even though his wife is away in a sanitarium and he is stuck in Oran; he still focuses on his work and doesn’t let it distract him. However, since the beginning of the novel, three events cause him to change. The three events are sending his wife to the sanitarium, witnessing the rats’

Albert Camus’s novel The Stranger is the tale of a young man Meursault whose indifference to societal norms leads him to public scrutiny. In The Stranger, Meursault encounters death from various angles: once through his mother’s death, once as a murderer, and lastly once as a person awaiting execution. Death serves as the catalyst to Meursault’s understanding of life. Through Meursault’s various encounters with death, Camus illustrates death as the inescapable equalizer that life meaningless. As

Albert Camus’ The Stranger takes place in a 1940s Algiers where the sun is always blaring red hot and the French think they’re superior to the Arabs. That, being narcissism, is just one of society’s many psychopathic tendencies another being manipulation. Society often uses manipulation to always prove it’s right in the face of the individual’s indifferent truth. The main character, Meursault, has a unique personality that raises questions about his mental being, however the real psychopath is society

Albert Camus ¨Nobody understands that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal¨ - Albert Camus. Albert Camus was a French Algerian philosopher, novelist, and journalist. He was always known as a distinctive author with a very unique style of writing. Throughout his life Camus was able to achieve incredible things from best selling novels to winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. His book The Plague showed a lot of his personal thoughts on life and his philosophy throughout his

Albert Camus wrote a paper called The Myth of Sisyphus. His main concern of The Myth of Sisyphus is what he calls "the absurd." He claims that there is a fundamental conflict between what people want from the universe, whether it be meaning, order, or reasons, and what we find in the universe, which is formless chaos. He believes that people will never find the meaning in life, or at least the meaning they were hoping to find. People will either discover that the meaning to our existence

On a warm summer evening, I sat down in my room with a new book in my hand. My friend informed me of a book titled “The Stranger” by Albert Camus. Playing the role of the persuader, my friend Julie briefly summarized the story which follows the detached character known as Meursault. Within the first minute, I found my interest spark. When I opened the book and began reading, I found my attention secured after the opener, “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.” Like a vulture, I ravenously

The mysterious Meursault While reading the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, I immediately noticed the main character Meursault’s and how odd he acted. His lack of emotion and desire towards physical aspects of life caught my attention. I never really heard or read about someone with such a meaningless attitude towards life. I began to think that it was my fault and I wasn’t interpreting the text right, but I wasn’t crazy after all. I understood that Meursault wasn’t your everyday character and

Sisyphus, condemned for all eternity to push a boulder up a mountain only to have it roll to the bottom again and again, quite thoroughly acknowledges the ineffectiveness and aimlessness that goes alone with this task. But he willingly pushes the boulder up the mountain every time it rolls down. After pondering much on this thought, a possible solution may be that we need to have an honest confrontation with the grim truth, and at the same time, be defiant in refusing to let that truth destroy life