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Tarrou actually made an attempt to help others. We learn early in the book the Tarrou is very wealthy and is not from Oran. With the services from Cottard, Tarrou could easily leave Oran. He decides to stay and help out the people in need. Tarrou sees a need for sanitation and does something about it: “Hence the sanitary groups, whose creation was entirely Tarrou's work, should be considered with objectivity

Talk of past politics and old wars could be heard ringing throughout the dining hall as the guests, Ahmed Bu Juma, Hernando de Talavera, the Valencian noble, and Spanish administrators, proceeded to speak over one another with disagreement to the other’s statement. With a sigh of irritation, I proceeded to serve the first course of the night in hopes that with their mouths full then they would be unable to spew anymore heated debates and jabs at one another for the duration of the meal. However,

The plague affected people not only on a physical level but a mental one as well. The mental health of the citizens of Oran was amongst the plague's many victims, it suffered of exhaustion as well as being forced to handle mental confrontations. When the citizens dealt with these issues, some people lost their capacity to love as intently, but overall the general capacity of people to uphold their devotion remained resilient to the challenges the plague provided. When the plague began, people

All of Camus' writings may be viewed as a quest for meaningful values in a world of spiritual aridity and emptiness. He begins with man's despair, estrangement, fear, suffering and hopelessness in a world where is neither God nor the promise that He will come- the fundamental absurdity of existence- but ultimately affirms the power of man to achieve spiritual regeneration and the measure of salvation possible in an absurd universe. This radical

The first sermon makes the people of Oran feel a sense of guilt for not having enough faith in God. He said that it was sent because of sin. In the first sermon Paneoloux’s opinion towards the plague is positive and he believes that he will see more people at the church praying for forgiveness

diseased is half our cure. - Alexander Pope As the title clearly suggests, the novel The Plague is, indeed, a story of disease. On the surface, the novel The Plague, may be an accounting of facts detailing the outbreak of bubonic plague in the town of Oran. But on a deeper level, it is a novel that reveals awareness and acceptance of the limits of human existence. And it is also a reminder of our absurd freedom and the choices we make in life, especially when facing death. In writing The Plague

shooters, but they are continuously being broken so quickly enough thus making it difficult to come up with a permanent solution to end such a public problem. The Plague is a story revolving around a plague epidemic that was experienced in the Algerian, Oran (Camus n.p). Thousands of rats were reported to have staggered into an open and die. By the time a mild hysteria grips the population, the media mainly, the newspaper, began clamoring for actions. The streets, shopping centers, the schools, and the

In the European theater of World War II, 1942 marked the dominance of the Axis powers. German forces in the Soviet Union had reached Stalingrad and threatened the oil fields of the Caucasus; Axis forces in Africa seemed on the verge of pushing the British out of Egypt; and German U-boat wolf packs preyed on Allied shipping with relative impunity [1]. Late in 1942, however, two significant Allied successes served to turn the tide against the Axis powers. At El Alamein, a British offensive defeated

machine upon Europe, and with it the rejection of those leaps of faith, caused camus Myth and devoted himself to resisting the terror of Fascism, a struggle symbolically represented in his novel La Peste (The Plague) by the sleepy Algerian town of Oran and its struggle against a deadly outbreak. In a sense, Camus moved past the personal and perpetual rebellion against the Absurd to confront a ephemeral and collective threat no less existential. Unlike the lone absurd hero of the Myth, who much like

incrementally changed over time. Ike’s actions also subsequently changed over time. His gradually changing actions demonstrate another characteristic of the Incremental Model. Eisenhower’s opinion of Fredendall ranged from elation after the victory at Oran, to concern when he found out that Fredendall rarely left his headquarters, to being “appalled” after visiting Fredendall’s bunker. As previously mentioned, Eisenhower’s actions also gradually changed. He went from praise, to persuasion, and ultimately