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Cosper, Dale. "Albert Camus." Twentieth-Century French Dramatists. Ed. Mary Anne
O'Neil. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 321.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

Summary :

This source talks about Albert Camus childhood and about his family.

Important Quote:

“He becomes aware that human desires for meaning, clarity, and immortality are absurd
in a world where human life is apparently meaningless, indifferent, incoherent, and
doomed to death and oblivion.” ( par. 16)

Insight:

This relates to the stranger by showing how Meursault and Albert Camus faced the same
problems growing up. Albert Camus grew up without a father and faced the death of his
brother. Also Albert Camus and his brothers and sisters where put into a Orphanage. On
the other hand, Meursault grew up without a father and a mother who didn’t care, but he
had lived in a home with his mother.

"Edwidge Danticat." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Literature


Resource Center. Web. 16 Dec. 2010.

Summary:

Edwidge Danticat talks about his mother’s immigrant experience and what she faced.

Important Quote:

“Once, upon an endless night


I dreamed of telling you a story
Of pleating you a tale out of my breath
And carving it into your flesh with my hair
And since this story would be my last
I wanted it to be a perfect story
Not "perfect" in execution
But perfect only in intent” (par. 1)

Insight:
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The whole immigrant experience relates with Albert Camus and Meursault because both
of these people where immigrants and they dealt with similar things as Edwidge Danticat
faced. To add on to the fact that he’s new to another country he has no one there with him
to help him and show him how the people act and work.

Holocaust Victim's Lost Novels Help Daughter Heal." Weekend Edition Saturday 22
Sept. 2007. Literature Resource Center. Web. 10 Dec. 2010.

Summary:

This broadcast is about a holocaust victim’s daughter who has found 2 biographies that
her mother had written before her death. Also it talks about how bad France was in the
1940’s.

Important Quote:

‘It was physically difficult, and it was emotionally difficult. I had to stop every so often
because I would recognize people or places. And at times, this became unbearable. And
that's why it took me so long. And when the original manuscripts went to the state
archives, I really broke down. I felt as if something had been ripped from inside me’ (par.
23)

Insight to stranger:

This relates to the book because Albert Camus and Meursault they where both dealing
with what was going on in France and world war II during this time period. Also both of
these people lived through this treacherous time. This also relates to Meursault because
he had emotional difficulties that made him not show any.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, "Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15)" from A Coney Island of the
Mind: Poems. Copyright 1958 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Reprinted by permission
of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

Summary: Ferlinghetti Lawrence writes a poem about absurdity.

Important Quote: “Constantly risking absurdity


and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
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of his audience
the poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime
to a high wire of his own making
and balancing on eyebeams
above a sea of faces
paces his way
to the other side of day
performing entrechats
and sleight-of-foot tricks
and other high theatrics
and all without mistaking
any thing
for what it may not be

For he's the super realist


who must perforce perceive
taut truth
before the taking of each stance or step
in his supposed advance
toward that still higher perch
where Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap

And he
a little charleychaplin man
who may or may not catch
her fair eternal form
spreadeagled in the empty air
of existence “

Insight:

This poem connects with Albert Camus book ‘The Stranger’ because one of his main
themes was absurdity. Also this connects with Meursault and Camus because the
theme of this poem is absurdity and that means obviously senseless.

Lapaire, Pierre J. "The Plague: Overview." Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed.
Lesley Henderson. 2nd ed. New York: St. James Press, 1995. Literature Resource
Center. Web. 16 Dec. 2010.
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Summary:

This source talks about Algeria and the Plague that took over the city.

Important Quote:

“During the summer, the epidemic is at its worst. Burials are expedited as mere
administrative formalities; disposing of the corpses is a major problem; isolation
camps are created for relatives of the dead; riots at the city gates are
commonplace. All must now come to terms with the plague.” (par. 3)

Insight:

Meursault was faced with his own problems during the summer just like Algeria did in
the late 1940’s. He faced death and loneliness over the summer because of the
attack on the Arab man on the beach who tried to jump him. Also both Meursault
and Algeria had to deal with the same kind of consequences. Algeria was a target
in WWII so people tried to kill him. And Meursault got jumped but shot the Arab
man who tried and now it leaves them all suffering.

Ramsland, Katherine. "Visions of the Absurd." Biblio Jan. 1999: 18. Literature Resource
Center. Web. 17 Dec. 2010.

Summary: David Lehman talks about Existentialism and what happened to it.

Important Quote “While writing reviews, he read La Nausee (1938; Nausea), a short
philosophical novel about the sticky, odious experience of confronting nothingness
written by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who would become famous for
popularizing existentialism and for publishing the massive and obtuse L'Etre et le neant
(1943; Being and Nothingness). Camus admired Sartre's literary flair but resisted his
philosophy. It was, he confessed to a friend, a bit "too close" to that part of himself
against which he was trying to revolt. What he did not know is that he and Sartre would
one day become friends ... and then enemies.." (par. 9)

Insight:
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Albert Camus main topic through most of his writing was Existentialism. Existentialism
is a philosophical attitude and this was Albert Camus beliefs during the 1940’s.

“5 Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.” Youtube. Pub. PoemsBeingRead. 16 Aug 2010. 17


Dec 2010.

Summary: Ferlinghetti Lawrence poem about absurdity is being read.

Imporant Quote:

Insight:
This poem connects with Albert Camus book ‘The Stranger’ because one of his main
themes was absurdity. Also this connects with Meursault and Camus because the
theme of the video is absurd and “Constantly Risking Absurdity” talks about it.

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