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        <title><![CDATA[Camus' "The Stranger" begins with a specific death, the death of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Camus' "The Stranger" begins with a specific death, the death of the narrator, Meursault's, mother:

"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. I had a telegram from the home: 'Mother passed away. Funeral tomorrow. Yours sincerely.' That doesn't mean anything. It may have happened yesterday."

From this point onward we learn about Meursault and the world he lives in. And as we read, we are at first shocked by what seems to be the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:04:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Stranger", how does a specific death scene helps to illuminate...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Stranger", how does a specific death scene helps to illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:29:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[why didnt Meursault defend himself at the trail?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[why didnt Meursault defend himself at the trail?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:07:03 PST</pubDate>
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First, what is the situation Sisyphus finds himself in, and what is his...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/q-and-a/1-albert-camus-reconstruction-sisyphus-myth-112925</link>
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First, what is the situation Sisyphus finds himself in, and what is his mental state in relation to it? Sisyphus has been condemned to eternally rolling a rock up a hill. Once at the top of the hill, the rock rolls down again, and Sisyphus goes down the hill and takes up the task of rolling the ball back up. Such is his eternal, repetitious existence. Camus' take on the story is that one must conclude that Sisyphus is happy. Sisyphus...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:56:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[1. Is Albert Camus' reconstruction of the sisyphus myth appropriate to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1. Is Albert Camus' reconstruction of the sisyphus myth appropriate to Meursault's situcation? how and why? what is the myth about?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:30:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Remember, The Stranger is a novella told in flashback.  Meursault...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/q-and-a/why-sun-important-novel-112313</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Remember, The Stranger is a novella told in flashback.  Meursault narrates it, as if from death row, where he no longer sees the sun at all, and this colors Meursault's use of symbolism.  Whereas the sun should be a source of life, it becomes a symbol connected with death in hind sight.
In The Stranger, the sun is present whenever Meursault faces difficult decisions.  It is an external force that pressures the narrator and others to,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 04:17:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is the sun so important to the novel?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/q-and-a/why-sun-important-novel-112313</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why is the sun so important to the novel?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:49:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Camus's character Meursault in "The Stranger" has a free will. Because...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/q-and-a/what-role-chance-agency-stranger-110191</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Camus's character Meursault in "The Stranger" has a free will. Because of his free will he always has a choice. His choice is what makes him free.
Before he became calm and realized his free will, he fought against reality. It seemed like everything happened against him, but it was really the way he looked at it, not what was actually happening. He expected things to always go smoothly which is why he was so upset when they didn't run...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:46:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the role of chance and agency in The Stranger?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the role of chance and agency in The Stranger?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:24:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the social ll(s) in "The Stranger" by Albert Camus?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/q-and-a/what-social-ll-s-stranger-by-albert-camus-109027</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What are the social ll(s) in "The Stranger" by Albert Camus?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:42:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Stranger by Camus Novel Test]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Meursault, like Camus, is an absurdist and an atheist.  Neither of them...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Meursault, like Camus, is an absurdist and an atheist.  Neither of them believe in God or the afterlife.  This unnerves the magistrate and the priest to no end, both of whom want Meursault to believe in something, anything.  So says Meursault:

none of [the priest’s] certainties was worth one strand of a woman’s hair. Living as he did, like a corpse, he couldn’t even be sure of being alive. It might look as if my hands were empty....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:24:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the novel The stranger by Albert Camus, what is Mersaults idea of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the novel The stranger by Albert Camus, what is Mersaults idea of the after life?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:19:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is clear thesis for the book  and the characterization of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/q-and-a/what-clear-thesis-for-book-characterization-96751</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is clear thesis for the book  and the characterization of Meursault or a theme (commentary on life or philosophical idea and two controls.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:18:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the true reason/driving force that moves Meursault to shoot the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/q-and-a/what-true-reason-driving-force-that-moves-95653</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the true reason/driving force that moves Meursault to shoot the arab on the beach?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/q-and-a/what-true-reason-driving-force-that-moves-95653</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:06:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The fact that you found no point or purpose to this book IS the point...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/group/discuss/stranger-thoughts-reviews-15747#4</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The fact that you found no point or purpose to this book IS the point Camus is trying to make.  This book was written as an attempt to explore his philosophy of Abusurdism which states that the universe is chaotic and indifferent to the needs of humanity and that there is no true meaning to life.  Depressing, I know, but let me elaborate.  Existentialists acknowledged the meaninglessness of life, but at the same time, they tried to find...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:51:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A literary hero, according to Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, is not...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A literary hero, according to Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, is not necessarily someone who ends up doing good, but is the protagonist or narrator of the story who goes through some sort of life change over the course of the plot.  Meursault is an "absurd hero" by Camus's standards of Absurdism which means he is characterized by the following:1.  He exhibits Revolt: He has accepted that he is condemned to live a short time in an...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:58:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Meursault's tone as narrator of The Stranger is apathetic and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Meursault's tone as narrator of The Stranger is apathetic and detatched.  He doesn't show much of an interest in anything other than physical pleasure, and even then he shows no enthusiasm.  Albert Camus has created Meursault to represent an absurd hero according to his theory of Abusurdism.  Similar to existentialists, absurdists recognize that there is no true purpose to life and believe the universe to be impervious to the needs and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:50:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[We don't learn specifically what his job was, but at the beginning of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We don't learn specifically what his job was, but at the beginning of Chapter 3, Meursault says, "There was a stack of freight invoices that had piled up on my desk and I had to go through them all."  As with everything, Meursault has a relatively apathetic attitude towards his job.  He doesn't like or dislike it, he just does it.  In order to better understand this you might want to look into Absurdism and Existentialism.  His attitude...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:31:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the outsider, why wasnt anyone interested in his case intially?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/q-and-a/outsider-why-wasnt-anyone-interested-his-case-83885</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In the outsider, why wasnt anyone interested in his case intially?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/stranger/q-and-a/outsider-why-wasnt-anyone-interested-his-case-83885</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 11:07:00 PST</pubDate>
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