Kristy+The+Stranger

"We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them,” Albert Camus. **

Albert Camus ** ** Biography: **

__ The Stranger  __  , Camus, Albert.

Albert Camus was born in 1913. In 1923 Camus won a scholarship to the lycée in Algiers, where he studied from 1924 to1932. Camus was a representative of metropolitan French literature and had come to France at the age of twenty-five. All of Camas’s books were mostly in French and Besides writing his fiction and essays, he was very very active in theater as a producer and playwright. Camas had written many different things including //Le mythe de Sisyphe//. – Paris : Gallimard, 1942, //Essais//. – Paris Gallimard, 1965, and //L'envers et l'endroit//. – Alger : Charlot, 1937. In one of Camas’s essays Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) he had illustrated much of the character Meursault the central character of The Stranger and wrote his book off of this essay. After many years of writing Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, and had later died on January 4, 1960. __ For more information about Albert Camus go to; __ http://kirjasto.sci.fi/acamus.htm __ Plot synopsis: __ The Book __The Stranger__ starts out with a man named Meursault it starts out telling you that his mother died. Meursault lives in a small town and a lot of people find out about his mothers death and tell him that they are sorry for him. Meursault gets a few days off of work to go to his mothers funeral. His mother’s funeral seems to be quite awkward and Meursault didn't seem to talk much, Meursault seemed to be the type of person who holds in his emotions. After his mother’s death Meursault just seemed to walk right threw life not doing much important or exciting. After a while of this he met up with this woman her name was Marie Cardona she really liked Meursault and Meursault didn't seem to mind her. They went on a few dates and got to know each other.

Mean while Meursault and his neighbor Raymond started becoming friends. Raymond was a very confused man who just left his wife because he found out that she was cheating on him and wanted her to be punished for cheeting on him. Meursault and Raymond did many different things to achieve this   including writing her a letter telling x-wife that he forgave her sent her flowers, and when she did end up coming back to him Raymond did the dirty with her and then spit in her face. She didn't like this and started to fight back things were thrown and he slapped her giving her a bloody noes eventually the police were called and Meursault vowed for Raymond saying that she was cheeting on Raymond and back then if a women was cheeting on a man he had the complete right to do that. After this event  Meursault and Raymond became very good friends hanging out all the time, but x-wife's brother soon found out about this incidence and became very irate and started to stalk.

One night Meursault, Marie, and Raymond went over to their good friend house he lived on a beach and they found it a nice place to get a way for a while they had been going their every weekend for a while now so this was nothing new to them. The only difference about this night that made this one so unforgettable was that x-wife’s brother followed them their and was watching them on the beach. Once Meursault and Raymond went on a walk Roberts x-wife’s brother and his friends walked up to them they looked like they were going to fight them.... What happened to Meursault and Raymond, will her brother ever leave them alone, what could this event possibly lead to? To find out read this book or to get more information about this book go to http://www.bookrags.com/notes/str/.

__ Book Critism: __This book was an odd book for me to read. I don't really read many books, and the books i do read are science fiction books for example I love the Harry Potter books. So this book was a little different I did like this book because it kept me drawn into the book I could not set it down which led to me finishing the book a lot faster then I had expected. I really liked how the author wrote this book Camus has a very unique writing style that you don't see much in books and I liked that. Throughout reading this book I had consulted a few people about the book telling them what had happened in the book and the mysteries that it held beneath the pages I felt it was a great book and I had to tell someone about the book. Even thought when I was reading the book I had liked the book very much at the end of the book I started to not like the book.

__Why Outstanding?:__  This book was outstanding because of how well this book was written. You never knew what was going to happen next and you always wanted to know what was going to happen; this is a great skill that to become a great writer many argue that you must have. Also the book is very original and you can tell that the writer put a lot of information and time into this book. The author did a great job having the characters introduced to you, which was very important in this book because you knowing the characters personality and how the characters really are get you really involved into the book knowing what might happen to the characters is not right. It also gets you drawn into the book because of some of the things that some of the characters do is very ironic thing to do and you could not see a person like they are doing that. This book also is outstanding because it seems so real and you could actually see the events in this book happen. Also again with the characters the author makes the characters seem real by not having them be so predictable, they did make mistakes, which is a trait that all humans have __  Why Recomend:  __  I would recommend this book because it is a great book that draws you into the book. Also this book is a great way to see and enjoy the once popular literary style that was used known as the "American method" in writing, this includes short; precise sentences; the depiction of a character ostensibly without consciousness; and, in places, and also the "tough guy" tone. If you like twists in books that you didn't see happening and keeps you drawn to the book then this book is for you __ Other Good Wiki Spaces: __ http://park204.wikispaces.com/JDurand Picture Bride http://park204.wikispaces.com/Kelsey Like Water For Chocolate The Giver. Lower, Lois (Extra Credit)