The Stranger is likely a famous text due to the fact that its main focus was likely to convey the idea of existentialism, the way the author wrote this text was very unique and we can’t help but think that the main point of writing this text was not for entertainment like groundhog day or the Matrix. In this book it was an undeniable point of emphasis to make the character speak and act in an emotionless manner, anyone who reads this book will notice it.  In this book most of the things the main character does, does impact the next part of his life, for example he made the conscious decision to conspire with raymond and shoot the arab man on the beach and made the decision to act the way he did in court which, in turn got him sentenced to death all because he originally thought that nothing you do matters, when in the end of the book he realizes all the things he wished he did and how his choices really did impact the course of his life, as opposed to the movie groundhog day where nothing he did would impact the course of his life, since almost everything he did would undo itself once the clock hit 6 A.M.  

The photo above shows Shaggy thinking about life and this relates to existentialism because of how people are trying to find meaning in their life. The same thing with Meursault as he was just living life without any sense of direction.

-Will is limitless-

2.)The Stranger gained its popularity due to the original perspective of the main character. It’s one of the first absurdist novels to showcase a main character as purely an observer, a character that takes care to watch and enjoy all the aspects of his own life. His observations are already very evident in the first chapter where he watches his mother’s funeral, he takes care to watch everything around him, even the things that don’t necessarily lead into the overarching plot “But I wasn't hungry. Then he offered to bring me a cup of coffee with milk. I like milk in my coffee, so I said yes, and he came back a few minutes later with a tray.” (8)  Little segments like these really are just there to show Meursault’s character and how different he is from other people. He doesn’t react to things in the same way other people would such as his mother’s funeral. Another very evident piece of this character’s nature is when he explodes in the end “What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers?” He asks questions that should have obvious answers to them. The end of the book is probably what made it so popular, because it shows the author’s intent outright, whereas other books would use heavy symbolism.

3.)“The only thing that matters is the present and what one does n the present to change the future”. The past is unchangeable so why bother worrying about it? It’s just going to waste your time so just try to make things better from here on out. Don’t let previous inconveniences affect you emotionally, because you can do things right now to right the wrongs from before

4.)Back then, I used to always think about the past and it weighed me down quite a lot. I would have no motivation to do anything because I was always lost in thoughts regarding previous events. It took me some time but I finally realized that it doesn’t matter what’s already happened just because I’d just be wasting my time thinking and worrying about it, so what’s the point? I need to 

Secondly to contribute to the peculiarity of Meursault's situation, he expresses indifference towards his girlfriend’s marriage proposal to him. He had previously expressed desire towards the girl and it had seemed that she was one of the few things he had actually wanted. When she asked if he loved her however, he said that he didn’t know. And when she asked to marry him, “it didn't make any difference to [him].(41)” the previous example of apathy having to do with his mother’s death could have just been a misinterpretation of shock but as the reader comes along to the second example, Meursault's condition becomes clearer to the reader and it is this first person unveiling process that is what makes this book such a classic

One of Camus final notion’s is that we are intertwined by the same fate. No matter what we do with our lives we will end up with the result. Death is everyone's destiny so what does it matter how we get there, his thoughts are highlighted in his response to the chaplain “What did other people’s deaths or a mother’s love matters to me; what did his god or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we we’re all elected by the same fate”(pg.121). Camus articulates that nothing matters to him because we are all destined to die at on point or another, so when his appeal is rejected he is not bothered because this is his fate and he can’t escape it. Existentialism is the attempt to find meaning in life in a meaningless universe and to Camus the human life is worthless because we are all born to die.