Stranger Essays

The sun becomes one of the most important motifs in Albert Camus’ “The Stranger”. The imagery Camus uses when describing the sun sets the stage for the climax of Mersault’s murder of the Arab. More than anything the sun is depicted as a distraction to Mersault. It causes him to …

Professional success and personal failure of James M. Barrie In researching the many odd and bizarre happenings of our unique culture, it is certain that truth is often stranger than fiction. The first paragraph of James Barrie’s classic story “Peter Pan” introduced its central theme: “All children except one, grow …

Getting used to punishment The book, The Stranger, was written by Albert Camus and was based on the Myth of Sisyphus, and thus these two books share many similarities and also contain many differences. In the Myth of Sisyphus, Sisyphus was eternally condemned by the gods to push a rock …

Readers are often prompted to investigate the imbalance of power in society through representations of race or ethnicity. Discuss how race or ethnicity is represented in two short stories you have studied this year. Race and ethnicity brings an imbalance of power in society. Archie Weller’s “Stolen Car” and Victoria …

In order to begin the journey toward awareness an individual must encounter an existential crisis, which stimulates him or her to begin introspective thought. In Camus’ The Stranger, Meursault experiences existentialism throughout the entire book because he is detached from so many things. This detachment causes him to go through …

Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus” was the basis for future reference to what literary critics and the like would refer to as the “tragic hero”. The tragic hero, as defined by Camus, is a character in a story, play, or novel that is forever doomed to an undesirable fate. …

I am a senior and am in AP Psychology class. As a part of our grade, we are required to observe someone in our class without them knowing. After the observations were completed, we were asked to write an essay explaining the findings of the observations. My observations took place …