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Abkhazia, Albania, or Algeria (November 2018)
By Mariah Roze · 32 posts · 145 views
By Mariah Roze · 32 posts · 145 views
last updated Nov 10, 2017 09:48PM
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Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. (p. 3)
Camus's narrator, Meursault, floated through life, responding to external influences rather than making active choices for his life. He didn't know, for example when his mother died, how old she was when she died, and certainly didn't respond as others thought he should: he did not cry at his mother's funeral or want to see her body. His girlfriend (of sorts) asked him if he "wanted to marry her. I said it didn’t make any difference to me ...more
Camus's narrator, Meursault, floated through life, responding to external influences rather than making active choices for his life. He didn't know, for example when his mother died, how old she was when she died, and certainly didn't respond as others thought he should: he did not cry at his mother's funeral or want to see her body. His girlfriend (of sorts) asked him if he "wanted to marry her. I said it didn’t make any difference to me ...more
I really liked how this novel took an existential position where you saw the protagonist as just a man who did not demonstrate much emotion or hold much faith. At the point where he shoots a man on the beach known as "The Arab," things take a turn and while he was somewhat arrogant about his crime, was judged a heinous man based off of his personality and not his actions. This is something that is often read in high school but you should definitely check it out on your own as well.
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I've absolutely no idea whatsoever what I read this for.
A guy who's somewhere pretty far gone on the autism specter? His gone Mom who he doesn't feel emotional about. Some sort of anhedonia or whatever desensibilisation plagues our MC. This is so very depressive.
There are pretty much no takeouts from this book. None at all, except for bad taste and me unvoluntarily frowning at this.
And this: stay the hell away from trouble after funerals. At this time people are vulnerable and do crazy stuff. ...more
A guy who's somewhere pretty far gone on the autism specter? His gone Mom who he doesn't feel emotional about. Some sort of anhedonia or whatever desensibilisation plagues our MC. This is so very depressive.
There are pretty much no takeouts from this book. None at all, except for bad taste and me unvoluntarily frowning at this.
And this: stay the hell away from trouble after funerals. At this time people are vulnerable and do crazy stuff. ...more
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