The Stranger By Albert Camus

The Itinerant One The Stranger by Albert Camus starts off with Meursault, who is the narrator of the story (in first person), getting him a sad telegraph that tells him about the death of his beloved mom. Meursault then with no emotion goes to Marengo to see his mother’s body. The director of the assisted living home told him that he could see his mother. When Meursault found out that she was in her coffin, he declined the offer to take a look at her with disgust on his face. In the night, he kept a watch over his mother’s coffin. Even though he did not like it, his mother’s care taker stayed with him the entire night talking, which Meursault found annoying. He attended the funeral but did not show any signs of grief. Meursault returned back to Algiers afterward and met Marie Cardona while he was walking on the beach. That afternoon, they went to go see a funny movie together. A couple days later he bumps into Raymond Sintes, who is supposedly
While the two of them were talking, they heard arguing coming from next door and later some police men arrived at Sintes’s place. Meursault testified for Raymond after they arrested him. Marie and Meursault soon got engaged. One day Sintes, Marie, and Meursault go to the beach. While they were having fun, Meursault stabs the brother of Sintes’s mistress without a reason when he was walking by. Then he goes to jail and everyone was confused because he had no feelings for what he did. His trail is focused on the point that he is wasn’t sad about stabbing the man, nor about his mother’s death. He is found guilty and beheaded. Before he is beheaded, a priest tries to convert him to Christianity, but he refuses and accepts that life is meaningless and it’s all just about physical stuff. His acceptance makes him happy one last time before he