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Question: How is it that once Mersault is put in prision we start seeing a different side of him, one we thought didnt't exsist. He does have feelings and the way he acted before was simply his personality.

Thesis: Although Camus in the begininng of the novel introduces us to a character who seems not to have feeling for anything or emotion, we see later on that he does have feelings and he does care it was simply the typenof enviorment he was in that caused him to act that way he did. (Away from everyone)

Intoduction: In Part I, we think he doesn't have much feeling for anything or anyone:

• His mothers funeral
• How he doesn't say he loves Marie
• He wasn't grieving "properly"
• He went to see a comedy
• He did not know his mothers age
• He didn't seem to care when Raymond was beating his girlfriend
• Didn't have much sympathy for the dog that was beaten
• Doesn't have much memories of his father
• Smoked next to his mothers casket

1st Paragraph: Talk about the points mentioned above and how we think that he isn't a particularly great person.

2nd Paragraph: How he's happier in prision and we start seeing a different more opened, relax person than in the first part

• He says that he put his mother in prision because of the love he had for her, he wanted the best for her and he couldn't give her the things he wanted to
• He thinks of her some times when he is there
• He thinks of Marie and how much he misses her face
• He thinks about his father
• (mostly he thinks about things that we thought he didn't care for)
• He gets very upset when his lawyer tries to make him call him father-- probably something to do with his own father

Conclusion: Mersault did not darastically change when he was put into prision, but mostly when people are put there a negative persona forms. They can go insane for being isolated and confined for so long. Instead of a negative outcome coming of his expierence, we see a side of him (a better one) he is more open and caring. He talks about different things.

• Possibly try to tie this to the fact that there is the posibilty that when we go to College next year, our personalities won't change too much but there will be a different side that comes out, or forms, or even relaxes. ( Just as a different side comes to the surface)
• He was probably more relaxed and at peace in prison which is why this part of him appeared.
• He was away from other people therefore he didn't care that much for what others said even though he still kind of did.
• This could happen in College? Possibly?