"The Stranger" by Albert Camus.

ESSAY THE STRANGER Alejandra Rojas Bogotá - Colombia, March 4, 2003 English Colegio Campoalegre OUTLINE I.Introduction. II.Meursault as an "insensible man". III.Indifference and how it was seen by society. IV.The trial. V.The verdict-conclusion. Society has a series of parameters and "ways of acting" according to the situation. If you don't act as you've been expected to, you get rejected and are catalogued as insane and seen as a strange creature. This was …

…in general for his bizarre behaviors, the magistrate concludes that a man with such amoral, atheistic and odd convictions can't be let go on living because he's a menace to society. The verdict is death penalty for Meursault. A penalty not for killing, but for not accomplishing with society's values and expectations. For not crying in his mother's funeral, for not believing in god. For being a "stranger and outsider" of the common pre-established world.