emotionless‚ removed man in a world filled of people who value the very things he deems unimportant. The culture of people around him‚ are ones who need explanations for why things happen or why things don’t happen. However‚ the main character of Albert Camus’s The Stranger‚ Monsieur Meursault sees no purpose in the
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The Outsiders Why do people fight? In the fictional book The Outsiders‚ written by S.E Hinton‚ a 14 year old boy learns the way of street life by getting hurt. The story takes place in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma during the 1960s. There are two gangs that live in Tulsa‚ the Socs and the Greasers. The characters Ponyboy‚ Sodapop‚ Darry‚ Sandy‚ Steve‚ Evie‚ Two-bit‚ Johnny‚ and Dally are all part of the Greasers gang. Cherry‚ Marcia‚ Sylvia‚ Bob‚ and Randy are in the Socs gang. Ponyboy‚ the main character
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(Macklemore). Macklemore states that in a world so detestable; people would rather choose to die than be who they truly are. In other words‚ in The Stranger Meursault is killed for not having enough emotion during his mother’s death‚ he is indifferent and chooses to die because the society believes he is not normal. In Albert Camus novel‚ The Stranger‚ he examines what happens to a society when the social constructs are corrupt. This essay will examine the corrupt social constructs impact on Meursault’s
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also gangs. This book‚ “The Outsiders” written by S.E.Hinton is about a gang called Greasers and the narrator‚ “Ponyboy” tells us about what happened the year before telling us the story of everyday life as a Greaser. In this book‚the author uses different types of techniques to contradict the characters to their gang. However‚ the author also does not connect the characters to the gang. I have three different techniques that the author uses to contradict the characters to their gang. Ponyboy contradict
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Critique: Passage from The Stranger by Albert Camus: At the same instant the sweat in my eyebrows dripped down over my eyelids all at once and covered them with a warm‚ thick film. My eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. All I could feel were the cymbals of sunlight crashing on my forehead and‚ indistinctly‚ the dazzling spear flying up from the knife in front of me. The scorching blade slashed at my eyelashes and stabbed at my stinging eyes. That’s when everything began to reel
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“The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton has many main characters‚ I’m only going to focus on one and that’s Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy Curtis or Pony for short is a 14 year old boy who is apart of a friend group called the greasers. They’re called the greasers because they have greasy hair and are not very clean. Pony also has a brother named Darry‚ who is 20 and has legal custody of him and his 16 year old brother named Sodapop. Darry has legal custody of him and his brother because their parents were in a car
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What is an absurd hero? An absurd hero is someone who is determined to continue living with passion even though life appears to be meaningless. It seems like one of Mersault’s passion is hanging out with his friends. In The Stranger by Albert Camus‚ Mersault is an absurd hero because when bad things happen in his life‚ he still finds a reason and passion to live and be content with his life. Mersault strives to find meaning in his life because horrible things happen to him. In the beginning he
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Camus ’ "The Stranger": Choice and Individual Freedom Are Integral Components of Human Nature Camus ’s The Stranger is a grim profession that choice and individual freedom are integral components of human nature‚ and the commitment and responsibility that accompany these elements are ultimately the deciding factors of the morality of one ’s existence. Meursault is placed in an indifferent world‚ a world that embraces absurdity and persecutes reason; such is the nature of existentialist belief
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Albert Camus wrote "The Stranger" during the Existentialist movement‚ which explains why the main character in the novel‚ Meursault‚ is characterized as detached and emotionless‚ two of the aspects of existentialism. In Meursault‚ Camus creates a character he intends his readers to relate to‚ because he creates characters placed in realistic situations. He wants the reader to form a changing‚ ambiguous opinion of Meursault. From what Meursault narrates to the reader in the novel‚ the reader can understand
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Research Paper “The meaning of life is that it ends.”-Franz Kafka. This simple yet ingenious quote by Kafka does make one stop and think‚ is life really that meaningless? How can one concur if life is meaningless or not? Before these questions can be answered‚ one must ask‚ what is meaning? Amazingly enough‚ meaning is something we create ourselves. We attach meaning to everything around us whether it be language‚ a person‚ an item‚ or even a pencil. Meaning comes from within us‚ making us the
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