“Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a
telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.” That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was
yesterday” (Camus 1).
In the The Stranger, probably the strangest part is the way
Albert Campus starts off the story. He starts off the stranger- himself,
Meursault,- giving background as to why he is a stranger. He is detached from
his own point of view, and well sort of everything. He doesn’t really care
about his mother’s death, which is very strange, unless a poor relationship caused
that type of reaction; which we do not know because it is the first page of the
book. What is even stranger is that he does not keep track of the days, which
can be inferred from him not remembering when a important telegram came
through. Overall the beginning of the novel has to be the strangest because it
sets the tone for the rest of the essay.
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