No Stranger

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Some tenth-grade English classes were struggling to understand the motivations of the main character of mid-twentieth century existentialist Albert Camus' novel, "The Stranger". The character, Meursault, showed no grief at his mother's funeral, accepted a marriage proposal from his girlfriend with a why-not attitude, and later emptied a loaded gun into a man and blamed it on the sun. The class guessed that his mother must have been mean to young Meursault, or perhaps he was angry because his father abandoned him, or maybe Meursault was suffering from mental illness.

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