1st paragraph

When the book starts. Meursault is at his mother's funeral. We see him as a passive, dispassionate, who doesn't even know himself. He cannot seem to connect or acknowledge anybody around him. In the opening sentence explains that he is at his mother's funeral which shows how absurd Meursault's outlook on life is."Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: " Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours." That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday" ( Camus, 12).  We see his emotional difference, and  detachment to people. He is unaware of his surroundings and does not even remember the day of the death of his mother, but it "doesn't mean anything " anyways to him.  

Intro paragraph

In Albert Camus' The Stranger,  Meursault is a lonely and detached character who shows brutal honesty. He is an independent man who's moods are changed by the powers of nature and who would not lie to save his own life. Meursault is a hard character to read. At first we do not distinguish the changes in Meursault's attitude, he starts being uninterested and life... And finishes uninterested in life yet we do notice jurassic and important changes beneath the surface.  Meursault starts off being a dispassionate and indecisive man and finishes being an understanding and starts to think about himself. Throughout to book he meets situations where he is forced to think and consider himself and slowly but surely stops being passive through his action and words. 

Outline The Stranger

How does Meursault change as a person from the start of the book until the very end and how noticeable are these changes?

Introduction
- quick summary of how meursault is at the beginning and how he is at the end. Quick analysis on the characters and the events that make him change his mind

1st paragraph
- talk about meursault in the very beginning at his mother's funeral.
- analyze how he feels at that moment

2nd paragraph
-talk about the scene in the courtroom
- analyze how little he cares of being accused for murder

3rd
- how did his life in prison change him?
- reflect on how was obliged to feel I prison because that is all he could do

Conclusion
Talk how he changed and now it has affected the reader

Thesis.
- although Meursault was seen as a human who lacks of emotion and is indifferent to what happens around him, he is though forced to open his heart to indifference of the universe and does start to feel more and more emotions

The Stranger essay question

How does Meursault change as a person from the start of the book until the very end and how noticeable are these changes.

The stranger blog

Albert Camus' The Stranger is written in a non frivolous and simple way. It has meticulous detailed parts that make you appreciate all of the aspect of the story. The sentences are a little clipped and sometimes seems extremely childish. The story is expressed with clarity profoundness. The writing style is very honest and makes it a pleasure to read.

blog post

When looking at Hunger Games and Pride and Prejudice, we clearly see a difference in style reading and story wise. One is aiming towards a wider range of people while the other one is mostly written towards a smaller group of people. There writing style are completely different in vocabulary and difficulty of reading.Hunger Games is usually aimed towards teenagers although adults can also choose it for a nice and enjoyable read. It is not written for very young crowds because of the idea of the story and the numerous killings that happens in it. Pride and Prejudice has a much more realistic story and is more oriented towards a more mature crowd, still teenagers but older one. While both cover romance, they have different definition of what it means to be I love, in Hunger Games the protagonist has to watch the person almost reaching the lights of heaven before realizing that she might just have very strong feelings for him. In Pride and Prejudice they just want to marry a man no matter what. The woman could hate the man but as long as he has money she will stay by his side. Hunger Games is very easy to write and has much more simpler vocabulary:"Prim is screaming hysterically behind me. She’s wrapped her skinny arms around me like a vice."( Collins 22) Pride and prejudice is also not a very difficult book to read however it is more complicated and there are some of the sentences that you would need to red again in order to understand it completely : " He spoke well but there were feelings beside those of the heart to be detailed, and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride." ( Austen 129). As you can see in both of the quotes, there is a difference in the formality of the writing. Pride and Prejudice Prejudice is much more formal in it's writing than the Hunger games is which is shows the difference of targeted crowds between both books. Overall, Hunger Games is a much easier and funner book to read but Pride and Prejudice has its moments and is also a great book to read. 

In class quiz

Topic 3

When we first read the book, Gregor wakes up one morning and notices that he has been transformed into a bug. While the reader is in disbelief, Gregor on the other hand is perfectly calm and seem to still keep a human conscience. His mind is completely unchanged compared to his appearance. He seems to accept the fact of the transformation and never once asks how or why this metamorphosis happened. This lack of curiosity and questioning brings to question whether or not he was actually changed and if this is just a bad dream. As we learn more about Gregor's life before the metamorphosis, we realize that his old life was not very different from an insect. He led a boring life with no apparent real friends, and did everything he could in order to support his family. Apart from his sister, he is not very close with his family. As Gregor starts to get use to his new physical appearance, his mind starts to change, and we notice that he is slowly getting the frame of mind of an insect. Gregor starts to enjoy different food than he did when he was a human, he also is getting accustomed to dark places such as underneath the couch. He is starting to like crawling up the walls and ceilings. While observing these details, it would suggest that the physical lives seem to influence and directly shape the mental lives. He never stops being a human, that is until his mother and sister decide to take away all of his furniture in his room. Gregor, at first seems to like the idea as it will be physically more comfortable and easier for him to crawl on the walls. However he notices that his old furniture provided him with emotional comfort which is now gone. He realizes that he can either be physically comfortable or emotionally comfortable, but he can not be both. We then notice that Gregor never turned into a bug, he simply was one this whole time. This sudden realization puts him in a state of shock which eventually leads to his death. Every group of insect have workers that provide for the rest of the group. Gregor provides for his family the same way the insects provide for theirs. The real Gregor died when he started working just to support his family. When he first woke up at the beginning of the book he had been completely transformed, however the real transformation took place when his mind started to change.