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The Stranger By Albert Camus Meaning

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In the novel The stranger by Albert Camus is about a young man named Meursault living in Algiers who loses his mother. Throughout her death and her funeral he shows no emotions over her nor grieve and ends up hanging out with a “pimp” that causes him to get into problems. He ends up killing an Arab and goes to court for his trial but during his trial the prosecutor focuses on him not being sentimental about his mother's death instead of him murdering someone. In the end he gets sentenced to death and Meursault starts to feel sorts of emotions by saying “I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate”(page 123). This means that his life would have some meaning

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