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6.In part two of the novel, Meursault demonstrates the absurd principal. According to Meursault, “ throughout the whole absurd life, I’d lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come” (Camus 121). He is living through absurdity by feeling sort of “dead” in his life. Meursault says it directly in the novel when he says, “throughout the whole absurd life.” He is trying to get his point out that he feels like his whole life has been sort of dead in a way. He realizes his absurdity when he is in jail and more so towards the end of the novel. When he states the fact that he thinks he lived through his absurdity, he already knows that he has to be executed. He is thinking a lot about his life before the trial. He feels that there is a dark wind that will come to him form his future, which he feels as though he will live on. - Megan McKenzie 6. The absurdity principal can be explained in more then one way. Mersault demonstrates absurdity in more then one way in part two of the book //The Stranger//. According to Camus’s //The Stranger,// “I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only the words “yesterday” and “tomorrow” still had any meaning for me” (80). This quote is an example of absurdity because all of Mersault’s days seemed like they were just one with no difference between each day. This shows how Mersault is not using common judgment or reason to make his days seem normal and separated into different days. This is one example of how Mersault demonstrated absurdity in part two. -Erica Krauss

6. Absurdity is one of the main steps to becoming an existentialist. In part 2 of the //The Stranger// is when he truly shows this stage of becoming an existentialist. The true meaning of absurdity is having no meaning to life and living a meaningless life. There is many examples of when he shows this stage of absurdity, but only one truly to me explains it the best. To normal people different days of the week have meaning but to Meursalt, "Only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still have any meaning for me" (Camus 80). This quote shows that life to Meursalt is meaningless now because Fridays or Saturdays or Mondays have no meaning to him but only yesterday and tomorrow have meaning to him. This shows that his life in prison truly elevated his life from having no meaning to extremely living a meaningless life. -Bobby Williams

6. I like how Megan talked about the ultimate of all absurdity of all. She is talking about Life and Death of course. By the end of the novel he understands that he will not die because of the fact he killed in self defense but because all life is given meaning by death. She did good with PIE and ICE and the right formate. -Connor Murphy