Thesis: In Albert Camus' The Stranger, the author uses the motif of silence to foreshadow events of important development in the novel. It represents the fragility of life and how easily it can be disrupted.
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Quotes:
- "The sound was like the muffled jabber of parakeets" (5).
- "Now it was all these people not making a sound that was getting on my nerves" (10).
- "The cop knocked on the door and we couldn't hear anything anymore" (35).
- "He looked at me in silence. The he said, 'Good night.'" (38).
- "I said, 'No.' She stopped talking for a minute and looked at me without saying anything" (40)
- "They were staring at us in silence, but in that way of theirs, as if we were nothing but stones or dead trees" (46).
- "At that point, Raymond said something to Masson which I didn't quite catch" (50)
- "Raymond went right up to his man. I couldn't hear what he said to him, but the other guy made a move as though he were going to butt him" (51).
- "The whole time there was nothing but the sun and the silence, with the low gurgling from the spring and the three notes" (53).
- "I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started" (56).
- "I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy" (57).
- "They weren't fanning themselves, but they were still watching me without saying a word" (85).
- "if he had noticed that I was ever withdrawn, and all he would admit was that I didn't speak unless I had something to say" (88).
- "When the prosecutor returned to his seat, there was a rather long silence" (98).
- "We waited a long time - almost three-quarters of an hour I think. Then a bell rang" (102).
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