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In the novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus it opens up very sadly with Meursault mother dying and he has to take a trip to go where his mother was living which was an old persons home. He was upset, but didn’t show too much emotion. After the whole incident with his mom he seems to be busy with his friends like Marie Cardona, Emmanuel, Salamano , and Raymond. He slept with Marie and Marie starts catching feelings just like any typical girl and he tells her it didn’t mean anything. I feel like he just needs someone because his mother died. Then Raymond gets arrested for beating his mistress. THANK GOD! Any man who puts his hands on a woman is less than a man! Marie and Meaursault get engaged but I can tell he really doesn’t want to but what does he have to lose?  Marie, Meaursault, Raymond go to Raymond’s friends beach house. His name is called Mason. The three men get into a confrontation with a few Arabs one of them was Raymond’s mistress
brother. And out of nowhere Meaursault shoots him and gets arrested. His lawyer is upset with his actions because he seems not to care. There’s just a pattern with him he just seems not give a care in the world not even for his mother.  He probably does care but is just holding everything in which is not good so it makes him act in a way that he shouldn’t act.  Especially hanging with Raymond and marrying Marie when he really doesn’t have feelings for her. So far this book can relate to anyone who has gone through something that hurts them mentally and physically and causes them to do bad things which is no excuse because everyone in this world goes through something and if we use that excuse for anything everyone would kill each other and not get in trouble because their going through things