Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Stranger Part II

Part 3
  Meursault and Ramon find out that the Arabian had followed them, and they get into a fight with him. Meursault takes a walk on the beach and finds the Arabian on the beach and because the sun light attaching him like a  knife, he decides to shoot him. He shoots at him four times and then he thinks” it was four times knocking  at the door of my unhappiness”.  He gets into jail  for what he had done, but for the first time during the whole story, he feels like he is part of something. Now so many people were interested in him which never happened before in his life and that makes him feel comfortable.  And we can see that even an outsider wants to be part of a group and not all the time to be alone, but Meursault finds out that it is not what it seems.  During the court, he realizes that they use all the information they have about his life against him, the death of his mother and how indifferent he was about it.  Even thought his layer tries to protect him as good as he can , still the other layer was better in showing the fact in such a way that he really looks bad in front of the jury.  But still he does not say anything to protect himself, he is quite and does not want even to say a final word in the court.  As he gets judged for being guilty of murdering, he knows that there is no time left from him and soon he will die. In order not to get crazy about the fact that he will die, he tries to convince himself that it is not such a big deal to die because everyone will die later or sooner. But we can see that he would like to live longer than just that, he just tries to prepare himself mentally of his death. We do not know the end if he dies or not,  but I think that if he would get a second chance for life he might make things different in live, like we all would do as humans.

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