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World Lit Peer Review Essay

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World Lit Peer Review Comments Intro • Provide a bit of context as to who Meursault and “the Arab man” are. • Camus did not self-identify as an existentialist • I think it’s good you defined existentialism in your intro, seeing you plan use the concept throughout your entire essay Body Paragraph 1 • This is more so providing background knowledge rather than analysis. I think you should include this information in your introduction, rather than as a body paragraph Body Paragraph 2 • Avoid phrasing like “a lot of” • In your topic sentence you mention his mother’s funeral, however that is not mentioned in the paragraph. • Absurdism is mentioned but you have not defined it yet, and your introduction only focuses on existentialism • Explain how …show more content…

When you say, “Meursault states so nonchalantly that his head is going to be cut off”, you a briefly looking at his diction and this point can be developed further to support to claim of his existentialism • Try not to use hypotheticals • Your point about his observation of the judge’s tone is a good idea, but can be developed further using a literary device • I like that you observe the specific phrase “in the name of the French people”, however you’re trying to prove that French treated the Arabs poorly, whereas your analysis states that they had respect for the Arabs • Try to explain why the book causes the reader to question their existence. I’m not fully understanding this point.

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