Albert Camus, The Stranger rewrite essay

Camus' essay rewrite

Albert Camus essay

Albert Camus

Annotated Bibliography for Albert Camus *The Stranger*

Annotated Bibliography for Albert Camus

The Stranger essay

Brittany Anselmo

Ryan Gallagher

English 12 CP

6 Dec. 2010

The Stranger 

Albert Camus, in the story The Stranger overall is showing how people can be ignorant towards this and how people are given options at one time or another and they sometime don’t bother with them, but when they need those options there not there anymore. In the book, the narrator and protagonist Meursalt, takes what he has for granted basically. He has everything but doesn’t really care for it, he’s ignorant to things in his life. Meursalt was given many chances to care about people but he chose not to care. When Meursalt ends up in jail everything is taken away from him and he then realizes that he took things for granted, and starts to show some kind of emotion for things he never cared about.

             In the passage when Monsieur Meursalt is having a conversation wit Marie, Marie had asked if he would marry her and he gave her and I don’t care type of attitude. In "The Stranger", Albert Camus shows how Meursalt has no feelings towards anything and is ignorant towards the feelings anyone shares with him, by showing this he also shows how this effects the relationships Meursalt has with people. This is all shown by the way Camus has Meursalt talk.
    "Then she wanted to know if I loved her. I answered the same way i had last time, that it didn't man anything but that I probably didn't love her." Monsieur Meursalt hangs out with Marie as much as he can, they're always at the beach together, and he's showing affection towards her. Marie is letting Meursalt know she cares about him and he doesn't give it in return. He's showing this I don't care attitude when he says that. Not caring about her feelings when he so bluntly says "it didn't mean anything but that i probably didn't love her." He doesn't care.
    A little more into the passage, Marie asks Meursalt if he would marry another girl if had asked and he said "sure". By that one word he is showing he could care less if Marie wants to get married or not. Asking someone to get married is a big deal. Meursalt just blows if off like its nothing. He's being really ignorant, you can't just marry someone and just do it because you have a what ever feeling about the situation.
    "I didn't say anything, because I didn't have anything to add, so she took my arm with a smile and she wanted to marry me." Marie just expressed to Meursalt her feelings and he has nothing to say. I find that odd. In a relationship both people need to show they care and love another, but they also need to be able to talk. Meursalt and Marie's relationship is like a one person thing. She's giving and expressing her feelings and Meursalt has nothing to add or say. He can't be in a relationship and act that way. He shouldn't be in one if he doesn't know how to act.
    Meursalt puts up and act. He doesn't care about anything; he has no emotions towards anything. When acting like this he's going to ruin everything with the people he has a relationship with. In order to be able to talk to people he needs to express how he feels and be able to listen and give feedback to what others say.

In the passage on page 117 to 118 in part two, Meursalt it’s being preached abo9ut god and feels if he’s guilty then he’s guilty. He refers to his cell in this passage as well, which symbolizes his trial. Albert Camus is trying to show the reader that when your mind sets to something, it stays set to that one thing. Camus is also saying that when you have something to say then you should just say it.

The chaplain is trying to convince Meursalt that yeah he might be sentence but he should have faith in got, so he can receive forgiveness. Meursalt was asked “how [he would] face [the] terrifying ordeal.” (117) Meursalt would “face it exactly as [he is] now.” (117) If  a human is going to die…should it really matter when they do? Meursalt does not think it does. Chaplain asks Meursalt if “[he has any] hope at all? And [does he] really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?” (117) and he answered “yes.” (117) Meursalt honestly doesn’t believe in all the religious things the chaplain is preaching. The chaplain can’t change Meursalt’s mind. Once you believe something. It’s what you believe.

Throughout Meursalt’s court case he was kind of forced to believe that he didn’t care about his mom because he didn’t cry at her funeral, he was forced to believe that he was guilty in the way they had decided, he was forced to believe that he didn’t have a say when it came to his like, and that he didn’t have a soul. While being forced to believe all this, he eventually did. The minute Meursalt showed any type of emotion towards something it was shut down before really ever being heard.

In the passage on page 118, Meursalt says how the jail cell didn’t have many options. The jail cell symbolizes the court room, in both places there wasn’t really an option Meursalt had over the two. Obviously there isn’t going to be a lot of room in the jail cell, but in the court room Meursalt didn’t have a say in anything, no options. He was said to be guilty and there was no if, ands, or buts about it. It’s a little ironic how he goes from the jail to court, back to jail and court again. Both places he doesn’t have really have a say.

In general the author is showing the reader how Meursalt didn’t have much options, and we he did when it come down to god, and not willing to believe. Meursalt has the choice to not believe in all the faith talk that the chaplain is trying to put in his head, but he should have been given the chance to stick up for himself in court when he felt like he wanted to say something.

All in all, Albert Camus, shows the reader Meursalt's ways in the book "The Strangers". He shows us how Meursalt goes from this emotionless human being to someone that soon realizes he for once wants to have say in his life. Meursalt knows why he does things the way he does so no person can actually really tellhin he doesn't careabout anything because they can't see inside his head.

           

The Stranger part 1 essay

    In the passage when Monsieur Meursalt is having a conversation wit Marie, Marie had asked if he would marry her and he gave her an I don't care type of attitude. In "The Stranger", Albert Camus shows how Meursalt has no feelings towards anything and is ignorant towards the feelings anyone shares with him, by showing this he also shows how this effects the relationships Meursalt has with people. This is all shown by the way Camus has Meursalt talk.
    "Then she wanted to know if I loved her. I answered the same way i had last time, that it didn't man anything but that I probably didn't love her." Monsieur Meursalt hangs out with Marie as much as he can, they're always at the beach together, and he's showing affection towards her. Marie is letting Meursalt know she cares about him and he doesn't give it in return. He's showing this I don't care attitude when he says that. Not caring about her feelings when he so bluntly says "it didn't mean anything but that i probably didn't love her." He doesn't care.
    A little more into the passage,  Marie asks Meursalt if he would marry another girl if had asked and he said "sure". By that one word he is showing he could care less if Marie wants to get married or not. Asking someone to get married is a big deal. Meursalt just blows if off like its nothing. He's being really ignorant, you can't just marry someone and just do it because you have a what ever feeling about the situation.
    "I didn't say anything, because I didn't have anything to add, so she took my arm with a smile and she wanted to marry me." Marie just expressed to Meursalt her feelings and he has nothing to say. I find that odd. In a relationship both people need to show they care and love another, but they also need to be able to talk. Meursalt and Marie's relationship is like a one person thing. She's giving and expressing her feelings and Meursalt has nothing to add or say. He can't be in a relationship and act that way. He shouldn't be in one if he doesn't know how to act.
    Meursalt puts up and act. He doesn't care about anything, he has no emotions towards anything. When acting like this he's going to ruin everything with the people he has a relationship with. In order to be able to talk to people he needs to express how he feels and be able to listen and give feedback to what others say.

independent book essay

       In Lorri Antosz Benson and Taryn Leigh Benson's memoir Distorted, the character Taryn is strugleing with an eating disorder. She is bulimic. Not only is she hurting herself but she is hurting her whole family as well. She goes on a huge roller coaster of up's and down's through the book.
       From the beginning her mother, Lorri, has the idea of perfect, perfect, perfect. Nothing is wrong with them."I often told myself that if we just did everything right, if we gave our girls the right balance of love, respect, and discipline, we might get through the teen years without an incident." (1) Taryn had an eating disorder, and intill it got to the extremes, her mom looked at it as a phase. "Fat. Awful. Gross. I hate my body. I am going to lose 15 pounds and then i'll be perfect." (7) Perfect is how her mother looked at things so it's clear that its going to fall back on the children, and it did just that with Taryn.
       When the eating disorder got so bad an uncontrolable, Taryn's mom convinced her to go to an eating disorder facility. When going there Taryn wasn't going to change, she didn't want to. With any type of addiction, a person is not going to change or get better unless they want to. She did get help but she changed her mind when she found out her mother had read her journal, "I knew it wasn't over. Two more weeks and i would e home again, and if all went according to plan, back into the eating disorder in less than three." (84) When Taryn is hurt, angry, sad, or anything her eating disorder brings her back to peace.
       "I vomited it up on the plane a few hours later. I raced around the Atlanta airport on my layover, stocking up on binge food and purging twice more on the plane. " (97) She hasn't changed, she doesn't want to. She was purging more now than before she left. As time went on the disorder was way worse then the first time, off she went to another place. But this time it worked. She recovered, "Lucky for me, I never gave up on me. I finally fought back and learned what a waste of a person I was while bulimia ruled my life. More importantly I learned what an amazing person I actually am all by myself." (215) She         changed because she wanted to.
       In the end, the main point that is trying to get across, is that if you have a problem it's only going to get fixed if that person really wants it to, not everyone else. Taryn's mom tired so hard to convince Taryn to change but nothing happened, it wasn't until Taryn wanted to, that she did. Taryn says at the end of the book that she has reached for the light at the end of the dark tunnel. (212)

edited Plum Plum Pickers, by Raymond Barrio

In “Plum Plum Pickers”, Raymond Barrio suggests that people can only be pushed around and worked to a certain limit until they just break. Raymond Barrio shows this by the tone this story is written in. He also shows this through repetition of words. Raymond Barrio shows this through the picture he creates with this story. These men are worked until exhaustion takes over, and they are pushed around and know they can't say or do anything about it, till the end when Manuel stands up for the others pickers and himself.

In “Plum Plum Pickers”, the tone is exhaustion. The workers and day is being empty. In the story, Raymond Barrio uses repetition of the word “drained”, which creates an emptying sensation. Barrio talks about how the day is out of light, how their bodies are out of energy, how their sprit is out of will. Everything is empting out. Their exhausted, they have no more energy, no more will, to do anything else. When exhausted its as though the human body is empty, it's like being to tired to do anything. This shows that humans can only work to a certain point before they’re too tired to do anything else.

In the story the author tries to show what’s going on with his words. Barrio sets his writing up in a way to separate each piece, so you look at certain words. It's much easier to understand what is being said.

The author tries to show how the protagonist feels through the story. They are over worked. When he writes, "The hot dry air. The hot dry air sucking every drop of living moisture from his brute body." Right their Manuel is working really hard and he needs water to be able to replenish him. Towards the end of the workday, the job really takes a toll on ones body. You can see this when he says, " His fingers burned. His arms flailed the innocent trees. He was slowing down. He could hardly fill his last bucket." There's only so much someone's body can take in one day. Exhaustion is clearly taking over. These workers are clearly being pushed to a breaking point.

  Back to what the author is suggesting about people being pushed overboard, you can see when Manuel opens his mouth. "You promised to take nothing! " Manuel heard himself saying. It's clear Manuel knew it wasn't right for them to work till they where so tired, and have what they earned taking away from them. If it weren’t for Manuel, Roberto Morales would have taking those 2 cents away from all the workers that day. When he stuck up for everyone, you can see that he was tired of being pushed around to do all this work, and have someone come take what he earned. It's not right and Manuel knew that.

In the end this story is a good example of, people allow themselves to be kicked and kicked until that point comes when they stop the foot before being kicked again. It's all about how much you actually willing to take before you want to do something about it. People have breaking points, and limits their human its a normal thing.