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Not necessarily a lack of emotion, but a lack of emotional explanation appears throughout the novel, such as when Mersault explains that “I don’t know why… I thought of Mama.” This relationship to a loved individual is mirrored within his relationship to Marie, in which he says “for no apparent reason, the way she laughed made me kiss her.” The unflinching description of emotional ignorance is contrary to the common writing advice - “show, don’t tell”, the emotion is explained, not shown through description, and at first glance this gives the impression of apathy (even though Mersault is shown not to be always apathetic). - khalil

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B: How does Camus develop the idea of the absurd, what sentence best exemplifies this? (Carter)

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B: How does Camus develop the idea of the absurd, what sentence best exemplifies this? (Carter)

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The fast paced nature of events and the response and description in short sentences develops the idea of the absurd, that nothing matters. Nothing is focused on more heavily but is rather treated like an everyday occurrence. Example, page 33, "he closed the door and everyone left".

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"But I wasn’t sure if I should smoke, under the circumstances—in Mother’s presence. I thought it over; really, it didn’t seem to matter, so I offered the keeper a cigarette, and we both smoked"
- Shows a lack of emotion towards his mother's death, as he doesn’t seem to be sad. He’s just wondering if it would be appropriate, to which he decides it doesn’t really matter
- Shown preoccupation with satisfying his own desires, smoking a cigarette, over mourning the death of his mother
- Matthew

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the line i chose: 'nothing had really changed' (page 22)

at the end of a very long chapter describing all of the events that took place in mersault's day, none of them were that important? they didn't have any significance or impact...

this suggests that the motions we go through in our lives, despite how many things we accomplish or what we actually do, nothing ever really changes (at small scale, we never truly change. at a large scale, what we do will never change the ever expanding universe)

this suggests insignificance of humans and reinforces the absurdist narrative of the novel.

-crissy

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What stylistic feature can you give that is representative of Meursault's continual absurdity?
The continued observation of other characters reactions to Meursault's actions or words. For example, Marie flinches after Meursault tells her that his mother died the day before

“So I said ‘yesterday’. She flinched a little but didn’t say anything”. This quotation shows a reaction, therefore a contrast between characters in the book which are considered ‘normal’, and Meursault, who proves himself in moments such as these to be absurd.

Wyatt

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B - Camus develops the idea of the absurd by showing conflicts between expectations and reality, or the expectation of a sort of rational where The Outsider universe is indifferent to all our expectations of a person, specifically in emotion and action. He develops this by using Meursault's outlook to be emotionless and distinguishes that the ideal world and the way that an individual might want people to act, is not what the world actually is. This is represented through every decision he makes because he is not making emotional decisions where he is irrational, but he also will not take into account what the expectations of him are if asked straight on.  

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B - Camus develops the idea of the absurd by showing conflicts between expectations and reality, or the expectation of a sort of rational where The Outsider universe is indifferent to all our expectations of a person, specifically in emotion and action. He develops this by using Meursault's outlook to be emotionless and distinguishes that the ideal world and the way that an individual might want people to act, is not what the world actually is. This is represented through every decision he makes because he is not making emotional decisions where he is irrational, but he also will not take into account what the expectations of him are if asked straight on.  

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- Ellie

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What sentence continues to convey merusault’s lack of emotion about his mother’s death and his preoccupation with satisfying his own desires?

Mersaut doesn’t seem to discuss his mother’s death at all after the funeral, and doesn’t refer to her for the rest of the novel unless it is mentioned by someone else. This shows Mersault’s apathy regarding the loss of his mother, who was no longer providing him physical sensation and thus was no longer important to him.

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What stylistic feature can you give that is representative of Meursault's continual absurdity?

Giving a small amount of detail to events that typically would be big events and vice versa for smaller events. He talks about his mother’s death briefly and then only mentions it in the context of it being an annoyance for him to deal with. This in conjunction with giving small events lots of detail like catching the truck with his friend gets a lot more attention than is needed. This is able to be done through the use of first-person narration. -Temi

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PROMPT C: "I though how nice it would be to go for a long walk, if it hadn't been for Mama" Because it shows Meursault's preoccupation with his own desire of going for a walk, and the absence of grief/sorrow/sadness/emotion he feels at his mother's funeral. 

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PROMPT C: "I though how nice it would be to go for a long walk, if it hadn't been for Mama" Because it shows Meursault's preoccupation with his own desire of going for a walk, and the absence of grief/sorrow/sadness/emotion he feels at his mother's funeral. 

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- soph

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What stylistic feature can you give that is representative of Meursault's continual absurdity? (Raza)

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What stylistic feature can you give that is representative of Meursault's continual absurdity? (Raza)

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Narrator - first person point of view

Simple statements

"I"

"I thought that it was one more Sunday nearly done and over with, that Mama was now dead and buried, and that I could go back to work…"

Motif of the sun

Repeated throughout

Absurd that Meursault is bothered by it as typically people like sunny days

Symbolism

Shift in writing style at the end of part one to better represent Meursault's new perspective

Allusions to the physical elements

Lack of answers to many questions