Stranger Journal 5

(I had made a 5th Journal, but apparently I had been logged out so it didn't save a draft, so when I went go publish it, it just sent me to a login screen, and no draft was ever saved... So here is my haphazard recreation of what I made.)

In the second part of The Stranger, Meursault undergoes a change of mood. In the first part, Camus portrayed Meursault as an emotionless, lackadaisical person. But, a few pages into the third chapter of the second part of the book, Meursault "had this stupid urge to cry, because I could feel how much all these people hated me."(90) Meursault normally feels little emotion, if any. The emotion he usually shows is either sexual or irritation. But, in the second part of the book, Meursault begins to show some actual emotion. I believe Camus is showing this emotion in Meursault to show his gradual understanding of the graveness of his situation.
Another thing I noticed was the change in characterization of minor characters. We still get the same descriptions of appearance and such, but all of the minor characters introduced to us in the second part of the book do not have names. All of the jurors, the judge, the prosecutor, etc. They are all referred to as their role in the trial. This could be Meursault grouping a certain type of people together like he did with the Arabs.
Lastly, I noticed that the theme of unimportant things still persist. Meursault viewed many things as trivial, and of little importance in the first part of the book, but now in the second part of the book, I've noticed a slight change. Instead of the normal carelessness of the first part of the book, there is a dreary, sort of hopeless undertone to everything Meursault notices. "I knew it was a a silly idea since it wasn't anything funny they were after but a crime. There isn't much a difference, though--- in any case that was the idea that came to me."(83) Meursault still has his normal nonchalant tone, but in context, it has a sort of macabre undertone.