Foreign Literature, 1/17, Period 2

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"Hello.

First, you all should have read much of "The Stranger" by Camus over the weekend. In class today, I would like you to pick one question from this study guide and respond to it, then discuss with your classmates and me.

For class on Thursday, please select at least one poem from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and compare different translations of it. We will talk about it and wrap the French unit early next week.

I am in my office after class for any questions."

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Re: Sign in and class discussion, 1/17

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*Hamlet signs in and takes a seat. He scans over the question list before picking a question.*

I choose the question about what the magistrate wants to hear from Meursault at the beginning of the second part. Meursault had previously attended the funeral of his Mother at the beginning of the first part, and while like any good son he felt grieved at the loss of his Mother, he did not show any outward signs of grief. The Magistrate wishes for him to prove his filial sadness, and the reasons why he went on an outing to the beach the next day with a female companion, and why he fired four bullets into the Arab. Unlike myself, Meursualt is not one for introspection, and cannot answer the magistrate's questions. This upsets the magistrate greatly, and Meursualt's refusal to convert to Christianity only succeeds in angering the magistrate further.

Re: Sign in and class discussion, 1/17

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"Thank you, Mr. Dane. Do you believe Meursalt's life might have been spared had he been more introspective?"