French Literature Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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Characteristics of Meursault in The Stranger by Albert Camus (1421 words, 5 pages)

Meursault is a man who will not lie to himself. He will not feign emotion, noruse religion as a vehicle to give his life meaning. Meursault has a passion for the truth,which opens the revelation for all humanity life is absurd it is mans mortalresponsibility to be committed to himself, ... Read More

The Murder of the Arab as a Central Event in The Stranger by Albert Camus (1759 words, 3 pages)

The murder of the Arab is clearly the central event of the novel. Camus placed it in fact right in the middle of the book. It is the last incident recounted in part 1, so its importance is underscored by a structural break in the story. It is related in ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of Ranger Junior College for Football (702 words, 2 pages)

Boobie Miles was good football, but haunted by injuries. He was not a very good student. All he wanted to do was go to major university for football and then go into the pro's. He received a scholarship to Ranger Junior College for football, and flunked out after a year.Brian ... Read More

An Analysis of the Selfishness of Mathilde Loisel of The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant (602 words, 1 pages)

The Selfishness of Mathilde Loisel In this essay, I will show how the author, Guy De Maupassant,characterizes Mathilde Loisel as a selfish, greedy, and manipulative person who thought only of herself. I will also show how her selfishness affected other characters in the story. My first example of Mathilde Loisels ... Read More

The Struggles of the Asian-Americans in Their Immigration to America in Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki (1403 words, 2 pages)

Strangers From A Different Shore by authorprofessor Ronald Takaki has brought a new perspective of my growing knowledge of the hardships and endless obstacles that Asian-Americans have struggled with through their immigration experience. Immigrants of Asia represent many countries and many different situations that have brought them to this "better" ... Read More

An Analysis of Meursault Portrayed in The Stranger By Albert Camus (4650 words, 5 pages)

The Stranger In The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the book's narrator and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He is the idealistic existentialist. He does not think much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times. He displays an ... Read More

The Strangeness of Meursault in Albert Camus’ The Stranger (821 words, 2 pages)

The Macmillan dictionary for students defines stranger as 1. Person with whom one is not acquainted or familiar. 2. Foreigner, outsider, or newcomer. 3. One who is ignorant of, unacquainted with, or unaccustomed to something specified. In the book, The Stranger, by Albert Camus, these three definitions apply to the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Identity of Meursault in The Stranger Camus (949 words, 2 pages)

In The Stranger Camus shows that Meursault can find his true identity only through an encounter with death. Meursault goes through some deaths in his life that lead to his own. This awkward, but most entertaining, character discovers himself through the tragedy that occurs in his life. His life is ... Read More

A Review of Alice Strange Camus’s The Stranger (3608 words, 5 pages)

The way a person reacts to ordinary situations determines the opinions of others based on their behavior. Yet, when this behavior is abnormal or different from the rest of society, it causes society to form an opinion based totally on a persons behavior not their true personality. In Meursaults case, ... Read More

The Philosophy of The Stranger by Albert Camus (390 words, 1 pages)

"It has been said that Camus 'was haunted with the notion that our world is a universe which has no place for us, in which our life makes no sense"The Stranger reflects this philosophy in a myriad of ways. Mr. Meursalt is the main character. He seems to live in ... Read More

The Downfall to Poverty in the Necklace by Guy De Maupassant (304 words, 1 pages)

Guy De Maupassants short story The Necklace tells of a womans intense desire of becoming associated with the upper class and how it ultimately brings about her downfall into poverty. The protagonist, Mathilde Loisel, shows many characteristics that bring about her downfall. The character elements prove that her selfishness, unwillingness ... Read More

The Portrayal of Meursault as Detached and Unemotional in Albert Camus’ The Stranger (4632 words, 5 pages)

In The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the book's narrator and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He does not think much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times. He displays an impassiveness throughout the book in his reactions ... Read More

The Flaws of Mankind in the Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain (500 words, 2 pages)

In the Mark Twain story The Mysterious Stranger, Satan teaches Theodor that the Moral Sense that humans possess is more of an impairment than a gift. The first time Satan degrades Mans Moral Sense is when he use the term to explain the difference between himself and Man (66). Theodor, ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Stranger by Albert Camus (804 words, 1 pages)

In Albert Camus novel, The Stranger, the main character Meursault displays a unique indifference to his surroundings and the world around him. It takes him a degree of time to come to terms with his indifference, but when he does he feels truly free from society's constricting bonds. He leads ... Read More

A Review of the Book “The Stranger (Animorphs, #7)” (542 words, 2 pages)

One of my favorite books is Animorphs7 The Stranger. It's about five kids who have the power to morph. In otherwords they can change into any animal they touch. By touch I mean they absorb a strand of the animal's DNA. Then,from the DNA, they are able to create an ... Read More

An Analysis of Existentialism in Albert Camus’s Novel The Stranger (1496 words, 2 pages)

Albert Camus is a novelist who has an extraordinary understanding of existentialism. His characters in many of his story show this same understanding. The Stranger is a great example of this way of thinking. The main character Meursault was an atheism who did not follow the social standard of having ... Read More

A Comparison of Two Different yet Alike Women in the Necklace by Guy De Maupassant and A Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin (1094 words, 2 pages)

"How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or to be saved?" Both stories, Maupassant's "The Necklace" and "A Story of an Hour" by Chopin portray two different yet alike women, who refuse to accept their destiny and deny the life of women of their class. They ... Read More

An Analysis of the Book A Stranger is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark (553 words, 1 pages)

A Stranger is Watching is a terrific book. I enjoyed reading this book very much. The non-stop action kept me reading for hours. One of the best features of the book is how it was written.The point of view changes every chapter.For example Chapter 1 is written in the point ... Read More

The Wrong Life’s Values in Guy De Maupassant’s the Diamond Necklace (1348 words, 2 pages)

Guy De Maupassant's story "The Diamond Necklace" tells us a story about a poor girl who has wrong values in her life. She loves money, jewels, but not people. Throughout the story the main heroine Matilda Loisel makes a number of ironic discoveries. One night she goes to the ball ... Read More

The Many Faces of Death in the Novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus (960 words, 2 pages)

Mr. Rhodes English II A Period 5 20 February 1999 The Faces of Death In The Stranger Camus shows that Meursault can find his true identity only through an encounter with death. Meursault goes through some deaths in his life that lead to his own. This awkward, but most entertaining, ... Read More

A Character Analysis of Meursault from Camus’ The Stranger as a Representation of the Ideal Existentialist (418 words, 1 pages)

Meursaults Recognition of His Existentialist Beliefs As one reads Camus The Stranger they gradually come to the realization that Meursault is a representation of the ideal existentialist. However it is not until the very end of the piece that Meursault comes to this realization himself. Only when confronted by the ... Read More

A Discussion on the Influence on Guy de Maupassant on the Writings of Kate Chopin (1040 words, 2 pages)

Every writer has an influence. Some are influenced by the ideas that the author has some are influenced by the style, which the author writes with. Still others are so intrigued by a writer that they are not only influenced by their way of thinking and their writing, but they ... Read More

Analyzing the Message of Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (264 words, 1 pages)

Who Isn't a Murderer? Hitchcock tries to use Strangers on a Train to tell us that everyone has a murderer within them. He shows us characters with different levels of the desire to kill. There is Bruno, Guy, and other characters, who represent society, and its desire to kill someone. ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Hauchcome in A Piece of String by Guy de Maupassant (403 words, 1 pages)

How far would one person go to make the truth be known? If you know that you are innocent of an accusation, do you have to tell all you know? Guy de Maupassant's character, Hauchcome, in "A Piece of String", is the type of character who needs everybody to agree ... Read More

Meursault’s Experiences with Portrayal of Existentialism in Camus’ The Stranger (615 words, 1 pages)

In order to begin the journey toward awareness an individual must encounter an existential crisis, which stimulates him or her to begin introspective thought. In Camus' The Stranger, Meursault experiences existentialism throughout the entire book because he is detached from so many things. This detachment causes him to go through ... Read More

An Analysis of the Contents in the Stranger by Albert Camus (595 words, 1 pages)

The PurposeCamus himself, on the back cover of the book says the book is an exploration of "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" at first glance this book seems to have an almost unhealthy lack of the absurd and Camus' statement seems meaningless. That is until the book ... Read More

An Analysis of the Stranger a Book of Many Facets and Meanings Most of Which are Not Immediately Apparent (1312 words, 2 pages)

The Stranger is a book of many facets and meanings most of which are not immediately apparent. In fact without in depth analysis the entire point of the book is easily missed. The manner of story telling in The Stranger is unique and at first hard to come to grips ... Read More

A Review of the Book, The Stranger by K.A. Applegate (543 words, 2 pages)

One of my favorite books is Animorphs7 The Stranger. It's about five kids who have the power to morph. In other words they can change into any animal they touch. By touch I mean they absorb a strand of the animal's DNA. Then, from the DNA, they are able to ... Read More

An Analysis of The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus (699 words, 1 pages)

In two of his greatest works, "The Stranger," and "The Myth of Sisyphus," Albert Camus exposes his readers to the existentialistic parts of philosophy. The existentialism within his works shapes his characters, by determining how they will act and respond to what is going on around them. However, due to ... Read More

The Significance of the Title in the Stranger by Albert Camus (510 words, 1 pages)

In this world everyone starts off as a stranger, and any relationship, be it family, friend, or enemy, starts off with two or more people venturing off from this state of being a stranger. Albert Camus, author of the novel The Stranger, displays the significance the title plays on the ... Read More

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