Outsider
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Meursault is a small clerk in Algiers. He is very empty inside and indifferent to worldly affairs. He refuses to pretend about his feelings and is indifferent to the relationships between people. He even went swimming, dated, watched funny movies and laughed the day after his mother died. During a seaside vacation, Meursault got involved in a conflict and killed someone "because of the sunshine". In the end, he was hanged - not for the crime he committed, but because he did not accept the creeds and customs approved by the law: "he did not cry when his mother was buried." "The Outsider" uses calm and restrained language to tell the story of a man who lives outside the secular rules, critically examines the freedom and equality advertised by the society at that time, and explores the absurd and hypocritical society's complete obliteration of the value of human freedom.
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