The Stranger Blog # 6

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Throughout the whole book I have wondered who is the real Mersault? But after finishing the book I have come to realize Mersault is a complete stranger to me and to his own life. "The chaplain knew the game well too, I could tell right away: his gaze never faltered. And his voice didn't falter, either, when he said, 'Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?' 'Yes,' I said." Pg. 117. With this passage, Mersault shows he has no feeligs what so ever, he has made everyone understand that he is a stranger not only to himself but to everyone that surrounds him and the sad thing about it, is that he doesn't actually care.
"'I am on your side. But you have no way of knowing it, because our heart is blind.'" Pg. 120. Mersault has no feelings and does not care about what will happen with his life, he has shown throughout the book that he is the stranger and this is why he is judged guilty at the and of the trial.
In the last two pages of the book, Mersault realizes how he has been a complete stranger to everything that surrounds him, and eventhough he realizes late Camus makes a good end out of it. "And I felt ready to live it all again too. As of that blind rage has washed me clean, rid of me of hope; for the first tiem, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifferece of the world. Finding it so much like myself, so like a brother, really, I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again."Pg.122-123.