Journal 5 The Stranger

I think Camus splits the novel in two because it shows how at first in the beginning what Mersault was like and then after while he was in jail. In the beginning he was a blunt straight forward guy. He was into sex, drugs, and alcohol. In other words he would always have indulgences preoccupying him. He never was decisive about anything and he usually just went with whatever happened. During the second part, Mersault loses those indulgences. He is gradually taken away from them. What he has left is just thoughts and memories and with those he ponders. Sentences become longer, they are not as blunt but a little more descriptive. Both parts do include him not believing in God and more in the last part of the book he tells how life is really meaningless as he gets closer to death