4-7 Primary Sources Research Paper

5-7 Pages

Double Spaced

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– Be more specific with answering question/thesis

– Maybe w/ prompt in paper?

– Explain research better

– What are you investigating?

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“The Stranger” novel

• Depicts an “other” individual with a different identity from Western cis white male norm
• Analyze theme and ways identify issues are treated
• Intersectionality of Identities: nature of social categories (race, class, and gender) applied to discrimination or disadvantage.

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Research:

• Historical context (1942 French)
• Class, race, gender, etc…
• Literary criticism about text
• Theory about aesthetics
• Interview philosophy professor

Second Paragraph:

Alan Gullette (par.2)

“It is evident that he is almost totally unaffected by his mother’s death – nothing changes in his life.  In other words, her death has little or no real significance for him.”

“The loss of a life would have no significance – no affect on life as a whole; and the universe itself is apparently totally indifferent to everything.  Here he implicitly denies the existence of God, and thus denies morality, as well as the “external” meaning…of life and death… He has the fatalistic feeling that “what’s done is done,” and later explains that he has never regretted anything because he has always been to absorbed by the present moment or by the immediate future to dwell on the past” Alan Gullette (par.3)

Third Paragraph:

“In a sense, Meursault is always aware of the meaninglessness of all endeavors in the face of death:  he has no ambition to advance socio-economically; he is indifferent about being friends with Raymond and about marrying Marie; etc.  But this awareness is somehow never intense enough to involve self-awareness – that is, he never reflects on the meaning of death for him – until he is in prison awaiting execution.  Of course, the “meaning” of another’s death is quite difference from the “meaning” of one’s own death” (par 4) Alan Gullette