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A summary of Part One: Chapter 1 in Albert Camus's The Stranger. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Stranger and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
- Part One: Chapters 2 & 3
A summary of Part One: Chapters 2 & 3 in Albert Camus's The...
- Meursault
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- Themes
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- Full Book Summary
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- Important Quotes Explained
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- Plot Overview
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- Part One: Chapters 2 & 3
woke, the stars were shining down on my face. Sounds of the countryside came faintly in, and the cool night air, veined with smells’ of earth and salt, fanned my cheeks. The marvelous peace of the sleepbound summer night flooded through me like a tide. Then, just on the edge of daybreak, I heard a steamer’s siren.
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Feb 28, 2019 · During the night his mother and his sister had beaten him to death with a hammer in order to rob him and had thrown his body in the river. The next morning the wife had come to the hotel and, without knowing it, gave away the traveler's identity. The mother hanged herself. The sister threw herself down a well.
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The Stranger, though rebuffed as not so by the author, is the existentialist journey of a young man who must face up to his mother’s death and his eventual crime, a murder in cold blood. In this ...
At first glance, the plot of Albert Camus’ The Stranger seems to comprise a sequence of random events in the life of the protagonist, Meursault. However, the novella’s events suggest a dark and forbidding meaning: in a universe that is irrational and indifferent to human suffering and experience, people desperately struggle to explain ...
The Stranger is a very short novel, divided into two parts. In Part One, covering eighteen days, we witness a funeral, a love affair, and a murder. In Part Two, covering about a year, we are present at a trial that recreates those same eighteen days from various characters' memories and points of view. Part One is full of mostly insignificant ...
