The Stranger: Journal #4

At the end of the novel The Stranger Meursault realizes that no matter what a persons past was like, each and every person dies and whether they are killed because they are guilty of a crime or whether they die because of old age, everyone dies in the end. I think that Meursault has known all along that death is inevitable and always had a sort of "What's the point?" type of attitude, but it really came through in the second part of the novel near the end when he's in his final moments and really accepts death as something he cannot control. I think that Meursault's absurd or existential qualities in the novel were used by Camus not to tell his readers to be absurd but rather to inform them. I had never encountered something with absurd philosophies until this book, so I think he's making readers aware of what this concept is, but not trying to force anyone in any specific direction.