The Stranger
Meursault gets a notice that his mother died. So he went to the place where his mother had been living. He stays there for 2 days, and returns to home after finishing the funeral. During these two days, he is seen as a weird, or a stranger to the other people because of his unusual behavior. For example, asking the caretaker "where he came from", not something like "How did my mother died?", and not even showing a tear.After the funeral ends, he returns to home next and swims, and have a nice day with a woman that he meet. It is not quite easy to think normal person can swim and play with a woman a day after his mother's funeral. I think this is because he desires to get the feeling that his mother gave him again from this woman. And he stays in his home, sometimes playing with a neighbor, or dating with his girlfriend. Later, Raymond asks him to go to the beach together with Meursalt's girlfriend. In the beach, he mets some Arab people, and later he kills one. Because of this, he went to the court and to the police, and finally to the jail. ...The plot is too simple.
In the novel, Meursalt is a person that does not care about the world's wrong things, and has apathetic attitude toward them. And he is a person that does this crimes, which was created by the society. And he has lack of emotion. He doesn't know whether he should marry, he should cry when his mother died, or he should commit murder or not. As the title of this book suggests, he is a stranger. But as the process of his execution carries on, he realizes the value as a stranger, I think. And I think Camus is trying to convey that the consciusness of absurdity lies inside people's mind.
I had to read this book several times again and again to get to this point. But I think that is wrong. Jesus I don't understand what this novelist is trying to say!! I know that there's something is trying to say, but What is That!?
Meursault gets a notice that his mother died. So he went to the place where his mother had been living. He stays there for 2 days, and returns to home after finishing the funeral. During these two days, he is seen as a weird, or a stranger to the other people because of his unusual behavior. For example, asking the caretaker "where he came from", not something like "How did my mother died?", and not even showing a tear.After the funeral ends, he returns to home next and swims, and have a nice day with a woman that he meet. It is not quite easy to think normal person can swim and play with a woman a day after his mother's funeral. I think this is because he desires to get the feeling that his mother gave him again from this woman. And he stays in his home, sometimes playing with a neighbor, or dating with his girlfriend. Later, Raymond asks him to go to the beach together with Meursalt's girlfriend. In the beach, he mets some Arab people, and later he kills one. Because of this, he went to the court and to the police, and finally to the jail. ...The plot is too simple.
In the novel, Meursalt is a person that does not care about the world's wrong things, and has apathetic attitude toward them. And he is a person that does this crimes, which was created by the society. And he has lack of emotion. He doesn't know whether he should marry, he should cry when his mother died, or he should commit murder or not. As the title of this book suggests, he is a stranger. But as the process of his execution carries on, he realizes the value as a stranger, I think. And I think Camus is trying to convey that the consciusness of absurdity lies inside people's mind.
I had to read this book several times again and again to get to this point. But I think that is wrong. Jesus I don't understand what this novelist is trying to say!! I know that there's something is trying to say, but What is That!?
I'm impressed....good book.
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