Journal #6 Stranger

5 Questions:

1.) What is the symbolic significance of Salamon's dog?

2.) Could the bus represent a way of escaping for Mersault?

3.) Do the coffee and cigarettes symbolize freedom?

4.) Why is it that every time Mersault cannot physically escape a situation he gets very irritated with the people around him?

5.) Why does the sun always make mersault sleepy?

5 Answers:

1.) Tania: Camus is trying to give a relation to the reader and emphasize the age of Mersault.

2.) Tate: When Camus is using the sun on the beach i think it is the water that is more emphasized. When Mersault is in the water everything seems to become more calm. Even the sentence structure flows better.

3.) Travis: Camus also depicts the physical aspects of people rather than what the look like or how they act.

4.) Sean S: I believe that Camus could be somewhat sexist. In the fact that Mersault only cares for Marie in a physical and sexual way. And in no way does Mersault know how to love her. He is just infatuated with her.

5.) Omar: Camus divides Mersault away from the other characters to emphasize the relevance that Mersault has somewhat of a condition to distance himself. He doesn't like people.