Albert Camus' "The Stranger" and "Exile and the Kingdom"

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss two works by Albert Camus, "The Stranger," and two stories from "Exile and the Kingdom." The writer gives a brief biography of Camus in order to give the reader a good understanding about how his own background and personality traits influenced the themes found in his writings. Using examples from the stories, the writer makes five different comparisons about sex, family, love, life, emotions and the commission of a crime.

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"He reacts the same way with the other characters in the story. There is no love, passion, or caring about them, he interacts with them simply because they are there, and he has nothing better to do. Before he kills the Arab on the beach, he says to himself, "To go or to stay, amount to the same thing." That is how he looks at everything around him, with great indifference."

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