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‚
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John Killebrew Joshua Parsons 1/8/2013 En-1113 Ines Kitchen In this fiction short story “Ines in the Kitchen”‚ Cristina Garcia discusses a women in the story Ines‚ who is a housewife and pregnant. Garcia talks mainly about the character Ines and her situation and emotions. Throughout the story Ines feels trapped and confused about life in the choices she made‚ she feels betrayed not in the since from someone but of herself and the expectation of being a women. The author Cristina Garcia creates
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Bryon McCoy 2/8/99 Less Than Zero Analysis Less Than Zero‚ written by Brett Easton Ellis‚ is almost as much about Blair as it is about Clay. Further more‚ the relationship of clay and Blair is the underlying theme that nits the fabric of this book together. As we look at the book we see several characters. Each of which is‚ to be blunt‚ screwed up. There are five characters that could be successfully argued as the main ones. There?s Trent‚ conniving and conceded who is a ?male model? and ?won?t
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“Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe‚ I don’t know.” (Camus‚ 3). These opening lines of The Stranger by Albert Camus gives a feeling for how the rest of the novel will continue to go. The reader’s initial reaction may be shocked. How does someone not know when their mother died and why do they not care? Albert Camus was an existentialist and wrote in such a way. Existentialism is a philosophy that focuses on the ideas of existence and not believing in a God‚ the freedom of choice and responsibility
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When Albert Camus wrote The Stranger in 1942‚ his intention was to present absurdism and existentialism to the world. The absurdity of life from Camus’s eyes come to life through the main character‚ Meursault. Throughout the novel‚ Meursault doesn’t wish he could live another life nor does he attempt to change his final judgement. Meursault’s inability to feel emotions and express them to others is a primary example of existentialism throughout the novel. From Meursault’s physical descriptions of
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Theatrical features of the birthday party The birthday party considered as one of the greatest Pinter’s work which reflect his own rules and features of his own drama. Perhaps Pinter is very different from other absurdist writers as the Irish Samuel Becket and Inesco.but in anyhow I can assume that the theatre of the absurd as called by Martin Essllin has witnessed some other themes and set of ideas that makes it relevant .This is partly as a results of Pinter’s style of writing ; he does
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In Albert Camus’ novel‚ The Stranger‚ Meursault represents an existentialist character. Most may believe him to be immoral‚ and in some cases they are almost correct. Contrary to that belief‚ just because Meursault is an emotionless silhouette of a man doesn’t mean he is immoral or evil. One cannot condemn him for being this way because he is simply misunderstood. Meursault does not make moral or immoral decisions‚ he is just completely indifferent to the matter. Readers are able to sympathize with
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or do you take notes on the dark purple flowers planted in the background? Attention to detail is a main theme in The Stranger. Camus uses this to display how Meursault choses to put off the real world and study the small things. Meursault notices the nature around him‚ colors‚ and temperature. You see he is more fascinated in the physicality of the world around him rather than the emotional and social elements it has to offer. It is not until the end of his life when he finally takes in that
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In her autobiography I Came a Stranger Hilda Polacheck reveals the conflicting role of women in the late 19th / early 20th century as workers‚ caregivers‚ and social activists in a conflicting age of progress‚ hardship and missed expectations. Coming from a very traditional Jewish family in Poland it seems that Hilda Polacheck was destined to be a full time mother and wife never having immersed herself in the American society where women were becoming more and more relevant. The death of her father
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does it contribute to or detract from your reading of the work? * How does point of view relate to the story’s themes or content? The short story that I have chosen to analyze is “The gift of Magi” which in turn classifies the point of view analysis. The events of this story utilize the third person point of view where the author uses emotions and irony to describe the characters in the joyful month of December which in turn each other wanted to express their love with a gift. In essence‚ the
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