Journal 17: Thesis for The Stranger

Thesis: Albert Camus expresses his world philosophy in "The Stranger" by contrasting the colors black and white to demonstrate the difference between society's standards and Mersault's personal desires.


Quotations:

1. "I still had to go up to Emanuel place to borrow a black tie and an arm band..." page 4
2. "Near the casket was on Arab nurse in a white smock" page 6
3. "It's customary I have to go get some chairs and some black coffee" page 9
4. " The glare on white walls was making me drowsy" page 9
5.  " I noticed right away that the screws on the casket had been tightened and that there were four men wearing black in the room [...] From there everything haappened so quickly" page 14
6. "The blood-red earth spilling over Maman's casket, the white flesh of the roots mixed with it" page 18
7. " A long gray moustache and lots of thick almost white hair" page 18
8. " Once we were dressed, she seemed very surprised to see I was wearing a balck tie and she asked me if I was in mourning" page 20
9. " Celeste was there, as always, with his big belly, his apron and his white moustache" page 26
10.  " I wanted her so bad when I saw her in that pretty red and white stripped dress and leather sandals" page 34
11.  " She had put on a white linen dress and let her hair down. I told her she was beutiful and she laughed with delight" page 47
12.  " He had on blue trousers and a white short sleve shirt. But he'd put on a staw hat, which made Marie laugh, and his forarms were all white under the balck hairs." page 47
13. ".. small houses behind green or white fences" page 49
14.  " On the horizon, a tiny steamer went by, and I made out the black for from the corner of my eye because I hadn't stopped watching the Arab" page 58
15. "Despite the heat ( I was in my shirt sleeves), he had on a dark suit, a wing collar, and an odd-looking tie with broad black and white stripes." page 64
16.  " He took out a silver crucifix which he brandished as he came towards me ...." page 68
17.  " Marie was surrounded by Moorish woman and found herself between two visitors: a little, thin-lipped old woman dressed in black and a fat, barheaded woman who was talking at the top of her voice and making lots of gestures." page 73
18.  "Three judges, two in black, the third in red, entered with files in hand abd walked briskly to the rostrum which dominated the room. On of them however, much younger then the others wearing gray flannels and a blue tie[...] had left his pen laying in front of him and was looking at me." page 85