Meursault's Influence Of The Sun

Ray Bradbury’s story “All Summer in a Day” starts out on a rainy day on the planet Venus. Although it wasn’t just that day that was rainy, it’s been rainy every day for seven years. As there was a time long ago when the sun casted on this rainy planet, the children on Venus could not remember. Except for one, Margot a young girl that had just arrived from Earth four years ago. She remembers the warmth and brightness of the sun while she lived in Ohio with her family. At her new school on Venus, Margot shares her memories of the sun with her classmates. Her classmates don’t remember the sun causing them to get jealous and them to hurt Margot later in the story. This suggests that when people can’t get over their

He characterizes the sun in human characteristics such as old and kind. 12) Wilfred is angry as the sun could wake up the first man, plant, and every type of life form on earth, but it cannot wake or heal the dead comrade now that the world is in chaos and is needed most. As he thinks the earth is sleeping or is using the sun as a metaphor for God. 13) The emotion behind the words Wilfred experienced is truly tragic “O what made fatuous sunbeams toil to break the earth’s sleep at all?

The scene is first set up through the personification of the sun. The poet uses interesting diction and phrases, such as “dipping” and “geometries” to describe nature. The sun is described with human characteristics, “build[ing]” these “geometries and orchids” and “riding/The last tumultuous avalanche”. It is like an almighty being that is capable of anything, including the controlling of nature. The poet wants to portray nature as a hidden yet powerful force that should not be seen as a simple concept. Contrasts,

The Sun of the Revolution by Liang Heng, is intriguing and vivid, and gives us a complex and compelling perspective on Chines culture during a confusing time period. We get the opportunity to learn the story of a young man with a promising future, but an unpleasant childhood. Liang Heng was exposed to every aspect of the Cultural Revolution in China, and shares his experiences with us, since the book is written from Liang perspective, we do not have a biased opinion from an elite member in the Chinese society nor the poor we get an honest opinion from the People’s Republic of China. Liang only had the fortunate opportunity of expressing these events due his relationship with his wife, An American woman whom helps him write the book. When

Later on he commits the crime of shooting an arab man, whom was the brother of his friends ex-partner. Yet again he showed no emotion whatsoever even after what he did. Since he had already had a bad reputation for not mourning his mother’s death, not feeling sorry for killing a man made it all worse. No one felt pity for him whatsoever, not even his lawyer who was suppose to be on his side. Meursault is considered a threat because of his lack of moral feelings www.sparknotes.com. He is found guilty and sentenced to prison, where in time he learns to accept himself, and his way of viewing life, and for the first time feels happy.

Meursault faces his fate and is able to let go of the idea that he would be free again because in reality it was not going to happen anyway. His sarcastic tone shows that he does not seem to care about whether he lives or not anymore. We all will die one day, that is a fact, but one should never take their life for granted. That is one of the reasons why he is in this current situation. He lacks emotion and self-caring. His attitude and actions are what got him where he is

He is making the sun have actual human features by saying the sun “shattered” into little pieces. As we all know the sun does not actually shatter he was just saying that because it was so bright out. He used this imagery when he was walking on the beach with Raymond, when they saw a couple of Arabs on the beach. Meursault never really had a friend like Raymond so he never

In the story, All Summer in a day, by Ray Bradbury, the setting helps develop the mood of sadness, and depression. The author does this by making the setting dark and stormy everyday on venus. The setting makes the story gloomy at first, but when the sun comes out for one hour, it makes the reader hopeful, but the main character missed the sun. That makes the reader’s mood depressed and sad.

From page fifty-eight to fifty-seven of Albert Camus’s The Stranger he uses the relentless Algerian sun as a motif for the awareness of reality that pursues the main character, Meursault, throughout the passage. When each motif appears in the novel such as this passage, Meursault’s actions change. This exemplifies that the light, heat, and sun trigger him to become debilitated or furious. Albert Camus sets up this motif in the passage to indicate to the reader that this motif shows the major themes of this novel. This motif shows Meursault’s emotion, how the imagery of weaponry affects Meursault’s actions, how the sun is a representation of society, and how the sun weakens Meursault.

“For those wracked by melancholia, writing about it would have meaning only if writing sprang out of that very melancholia.”

Throughout the play there is a continual reference to light. It is used in the form of bright sunlight,

When it comes to the sun Meursault lets the sun change his emotions, he never talks about the weather being too cold he can’t handle it. It’s just the sun that seems to bother him the most and his mood changes all of sudden as well“ All of it-the sun, the smell of leather and horse dung from the hearse, the smell of varnish and incense, and my fatigue after a night without sleep-was making it hard for me to see or think straight” ( Camus 17) here Meursault is already tired and then the sun shining down on him and all of this is making him notice every little thing that is happening around him even the smells of certain things and he’s not thinking straight. The sun changed his whole view of his surroundings , some people might feel a bit tired and hot but Meursault seems to let the sun affect him strongly to the point where he’d do anything to get away from it.

The sweat blinding Meursault enables him from thinking clearly and reflects how powerful the sun is to throw him off of his usual train of thought. All Meursault can think about is the sunlight affecting his body and mood. All he can feel is “cymbals of sunlight crashing on [his] forehead” (59). Camus specifically describes where the particles of sun encounter his main character and how severely it bothers him. Still on the beach, his attention is on the “warm thick film” in his eyes (59). The sun throws off Meursaults’ focus on more than one occasion.

In the poem “The Sun Rising” written by John Donne, it describes in three stanzas a romantic poem set in the speaker’s bedroom, where he and his lover lay in bed after a night of passion. Donne addresses in a rhetorical fashion the sun, as it peeks through the curtains in the morning, disturbing him and his lover as they lay in bed. His love for her made him feel invincible, which made the speaker(poet) believe that he could pick up a fight with the sun. In the first stanza the speaker is upset at the sun for invading his privacy with his lover. The sun is seen as an unwanted dawn intruder, invading the couples space. In the second stanza, Donne gets more upset, “Thy beams, so reverend and strong. Why shouldst thou think? I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink, but that I would not lose her sight so long.” (Donne 12-14) in other words he is saying, “You with your strong sun’s rays, what

In the story “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen the theme is some people have problems that sometimes we can’t understand because it isn’t something that can’t be understood, but the knowledge that we obtain when we ask questions is more beneficial than when we don’t try to seek understanding. The story “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen is about a boy named Terry that has a father and sometimes his father’s “eyes go away,”. This worries Terry and causes him to want to know more about what’s happening to his Father. He looks for answers to his questions everywhere because he justs wants to understand.