P1+How+does+Meursault+feel+about+Arabs?

Danielle Tello Period.1

Meursalts feelings for the Arabs are shown a lot in the book. When he was at the beach with Raymond and they meet the Arabs. He felt the need to attack. In the last few pages of chapter 6. He saw the Arab lying behind a rock. He felt that the Arab was mocking him in a way that ticked him off. “Maybe it was the shadows on his face, but it looked like he was laughing” (Camus 58). This sentence indicates the feelings of being mocked by the Arab. He shot the Arab in self-defense but when he shot him again four times. He was unleashing inner feelings that he had bubbled up inside. The Arab was his punching bag to get rid of those feelings

According to Meursault "They were lying down, in their greasy overalls" (Camus 55). Meursault does not like the Arabs at all. Just the way he describes them you can truly tell. In their he holds the gun from Raymond. As he holds the gun he has no hesitation about holding the gun. I believe he takes out all of his anger on the Arab he kills. The Arabs were scared of Meursault as it was. They were running as he stepped up to them. Bryant Jeffries Period1