The book The Stranger by Albert Camus reveals a new perspective that adds to the concept of existentialism. It is completely different then I <3 Huckabies simply because in the movie the main character is searching for the meaning of life or any meaning in his life at all, unlike the main character Mathew in The Stranger. Many search out the answer to the mysteries of the world so they can better understand the colplexity of life. Usually, from personal experience, I have concluded that it is easier for people to reach out after tradgedies have drastically effected them. Yet Mathew lacks any shock or sorrow when he lears of the death of his mother.
I wonder why Camus decided to begin the book this way, the first paragraph bluntly stating that she was deceased. His delayed reastion of not knowing what day it even happened .
The chapter goes into discussing how he wasn't really with her in the end being that she lived in a home a town away. So it wasn't as surprising to read the last sentance of the second chapter:
"It occurred to me that one more Sunday was over, that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed."
This statment makes me wonder about his relationship with his mother when he was younger and how it changed when he grew up. Even though she wasn't a significent presence in his life when he was a man, didn't they have some kind of loving relationship before that would lead him to have a little grief of loss. Orignially I figured he come o acceptance with the fact that she was gone, but for him to not go through any of the typical emotions first is odd. He is truly different frm any other character I have read about in a book, and because of that it is much harder to relate to him, something I enjoy most about nmy favoriute books.
Yet it also gives him a sort of obscurity that makes me think deeper into how he apriaches life differently then I do.
(to be continued... too)
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