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The Stranger By Albert Camus

Lesson Developed by Brian Deveraux. The Stranger By Albert Camus. Statements to ponder... Agree or Disagree. Political philosophies, religious dogma, and societal beliefs are irrelevant to me because they do not define me.

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The Stranger By Albert Camus

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  1. Lesson Developed by Brian Deveraux The StrangerBy Albert Camus

  2. Statements to ponder... Agree or Disagree • Political philosophies, religious dogma, and societal beliefs are irrelevant to me because they do not define me. • I can only obtain true meaning in life after I have reached a state of nothingness. • Existence is absurd and true meaning in life is impossible.

  3. I want you to learn • How to use textual evidence to support a claim. • How to analyze characterization. • Compare and contrast characters of different works. How do each of these works relate to our philosophical thoughts? How do they affect us politically? Socially?

  4. Create This T-Chart

  5. Fight Club and The Stranger • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg3m8wRVXWg • What similarities can we find between this scene of Fight Club and Chapter 5 of The Stranger? What differences do we see between the main characters?

  6. The opening passage of Ch. 5 • For the third time I’ve refused to see the chaplain. I don’t have anything to say to him; I don’t feel like talking, and I’ll be seeing him soon enough as it is. All I care about is escaping the machinery of justice, seeing if there’s a way out of the inevitable.

  7. Think. Pair. Share. • Discuss chapters 4 & 5 with a partner. Think about how Meursault’s outlook has changed throughout the novel. Are his actions still inconsequential? Does he still believe they do not matter? If his outlook has changed, how and why do you think they have changed?

  8. Group Reading • As a group we will read chapter 5 aloud. We will stop at times to interpret and analyze. • Continue thinking about these questions: • Political philosophies, religious dogma, and societal beliefs are irrelevant to me because they do not define me. • I can only obtain true meaning in life after I have reached a state of nothingness. • Existence is absurd and true meaning in life is impossible.

  9. Respond to quotes • Respond to each of these quotes from Ch. 5 of The Stranger. Each response should explain how the quote connects to existentialism. You should also explain how these quotes connect Meursault to the main character of Fight Club.

  10. “What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was” (109). • “How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could possibly truly be interested in?” (110).

  11. “But everybody knows life isn’t worth living. Deep down I knew perfectly well that it doesn’t much matter whether you die at thirty or seventy, since in either case other men and women will naturally go on living—and for thousands of years. In fact, nothing could be clearer. Whether it was now or twenty years from now, I would still be the one dying” (114). • “For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators that day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate” (123).

  12. Homework • Read The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre • Take note of how the main character grapples with existentialism. • How does the story represent the absurdity of life?

  13. Exit Slip • Create a KWL chart discussing what you have learned today.

  14. Day two The Stranger

  15. “Killing an Arab” – The Cure • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7lULaE6kv4

  16. Discussing The Wall

  17. Character Development • Get into groups of four. • On butcher paper create a character development table. I will show you an example. • The table should consist of “before” and “after” boxes. Your group should analyze how characters from The Stranger and The Wall change during their incarceration. How does their existentialist ideas change them? • After your group finishes the boxes create an analysis that will compare and contrast the two characters and their experience. Use textual evidence to support your claim.

  18. Analysis:

  19. Presentations • Present your tables and your analysis. • The audience will take notes and fill in their own boxes. You should cite textual evidence. Your notes will help you with your essay. • Analysis will be discussed as a class. The audience has a chance to support or refute the presenter’s analysis.

  20. Homework • Write an essay discussing your feelings of how existentialism plays a part in your life. Does it affect the society in which you live? Does it play a part in politics? Your own outlook? Does it allow you to make sense or cope with the world around you? • I want you to use and cite evidence from the texts we have discussed in class to support your thesis. • Think of this question: do these text accurately reflect society, or are they meaningless fiction?

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