Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Who is this guy? blog post

In the book "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, the main character Meursault is somewhat uncaring, like everything is so troublesome, and i know i've felt like that before, i just felt like everything was too much to deal with and i was just so tired of everything, and because of that i lost some connection to the world because i didn't want to be involve with anything that would just tire me out or be troublesome to my schedule. I feel like i can connect with him, because doesn't seem to be completely on earth, like he's always in a daze, and i sometimes get like that.
I also don't think he's as uncaring as he seems, its just he's not one to show it one, or maybe he doesn't know how to show it, because in the book he mentions how his house "was just the right size when maman was here." it shows that he actually kind of misses her, it makes him notice that his house is kind of empty.
He kind of reminds me of a movie i saw once Garden State. The main character Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff) is a kind of emotionless guy, he himself didn't show any sadness at his own mother's funeral, and in a dream he had he was apathetically sitting in a crashing air plane, but in the end he did start showing his feelings more, and that's what i think is going to happen to Meursault, when things get to a high point or maybe after that high point, he's going to express himself more.

1 comment:

  1. Gavin made the same connection to Garden State! You guys are totally right!

    Although Largeman was on all these mind-numbing drugs and Meursault is just... Meursault.

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