Stranger Journal #6b

Thesis Statements:

1 word choice
(Alexander) Why does Camus/Ward (translator) use simple words to describe so formal a book?
Camus use short simple words to create a more indepth relationship with the characters to make them more human.

2 Sentences
(Alexander) Why does Camus vary the sentence length?
Camus varys sentence length to create a very unique picture of Meursault. The difference in sentence length creates a little bit different side of Meursault one he talks long and it flow and the others are short and consice and get the information across.
3 Images
(Rachel) Why does Camus use the image of light always being harsh and unbearable?
Camus use light to show how a nessesity of life can cause pain but Meusault tries to avoid it like emotions and decsions.
4 Symbols
(Alexander) What idea is Camus trying to convey through the sun?
Camus is trying to protray through the sun the nessecity of human aspects of life. Like emotioins, making descions and the frustaion that comes with that. The cause pain and discomfort but the are nessesary for a person to live just as the sun is nessecary.
5 Figures of speech
(Athanasia) Why doesn't Camus create more obvious and deep metaphors?
Camus doesn't create deep metaphors to help show the simplistice approach Meursault has on life and their is really no deeper meaning ot his life.
6. rhetorical devices
(Athanasia) Why doesn't the narrator show more emotion and feeling than the dialogue?
The narrator is Meursault and as a character he lacks emotion but this helps juxtapose him to other characters who show emotion makeing him seem odd.
7 patterns
( Kevin W.) What message is Camus trying to show with the motif of the sun and heat?
Camus use the motif of the sun and heat as a thing that doesn't go away like human emotions that Meursault denies and that the pain they cause does disapear for a time they do come back.
8 Narrators
( Kevin W.) Why does Camus use Mersault as a narrator instead of someone else?
Camus use Meursault as the narrator to give us a deeped insight to why he lacking emotion. The fact that you can see how he feels toward other people when they express emotion helps use connect to him.
9 structure
( Kevin W.) What is Camus trying to say by having time go slower while Mersault is in jail?
Camus does make it seem like time is going slower for Meursault while he is in jail but he actual make months fly by and it makes the changes in Meursault seem likey they are happening really fast. Camus might be showing how changes in people happen over time and you can't expect dramatic results right away.