Albert camus

Albert Camus’ novel, The First Man, shows how one man, Jacques Comery, who’s father died while he was an infant, and is forced to grow up in a poverty stricken part of Algiers with his mother, grandmother, brother and uncle in a small two bedroom apartment. Has come to an understanding of love, death, poverty, and life. The following passages are some of Camus’ best examples of how Jacques has come to this understanding, …

…means for it. Such as these are princes among men, before whome one must bow down.”(117). In this passage Camus is sasying that most people are only willing to give when they have nothing to offer, because they have nothing to lose. It is rare to find a preson who has come from little or no beginnings, who now has everything and is still willing to give with no thought of accepting anything in return.