Distractions

The Stranger explains that the only reality of life is that everyone everywhere will one day stop breathing turn cold and die. No one can change. No one knows when it will occur, its just inevitable. The made up ¨values¨ of life are no more real than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. They have been constructed to distract an individual from the fear and uncertainty of realty. Meursault on the other hand has not fallen victim to the distractions of life , he has dismissed them as nothing more than what they are,distractions. He realizes what he can control and what he can not control and that fate has already been chosen for him. At the moment one realizes this then can one truly ¨live life¨.