The Stranger By Albert Camus Part 2 Review

The  idea of splitting this book into two parts is very interesting. It creates a divide between the two parts of Meursault's life we get to experience as writers. The first half is the happier (obviously) and the second is more depressing and cold and sterile. Meursault's thoughts seem very compartmentalized and the feelings we do see at towards the end disgust us. He is probably sociopathic. When he doesn't believe in lying, it isn't because he is a truthful honest man, and it isn't because he believes he deserves his fate, it is because he just doesn't know why he did. At the very end of the horrific experience, he state how he wants many people to come and scream at him in hate at his execution, because it is the only way he knows that people could appreciate his existence. Also towards the end of the book, he state how he understood Maman, how she tried to start her life over and it came to end, all he wants now is to live more, live longer, live over again. This is a drastic change from before where it seemed he wanted nothing (with the exception of sex with Marie) and he  didn't have a drive to do anything in his life, he was just letting it take him where ever it wanted to; like a boat drifting on a lake. Overall, I enjoyed trying to delve into his mind and understand in the first part of the book, in the second it became a sick horror you just couldn't stop looking at and reading and considering. Even though it was scary and sketchy, it was still a very well written book and I would recommend it.