An Existential Weekend Plan

No plans for the weekend?  Feeling like society is bearing down on you?  Nurse your existential soul by sitting alone and completing the following:

1. Post Blog response #3 - Based on your reading from last night, go back to the 10 existential introductory statements for which you wrote responses used in class discussion. Pull from your reflections any connection between the statement/class discussion and what you see in the novel. For example, you may consider the statement "We are alone,” then discuss which aspects of this section of the novel connect to it.
2. Read and annotate http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/05/camus-translation.html in preparation for your in-class essay next Tuesday.  You will be responding to the following prompt: 

This blog post by Ryan Bloom explores the significance of a single quote in The Stranger.  After reading and analyzing Bloom’s approach, select a different Meursault quote from anywhere in the novel.  Then write an essay in which you explain 1) the quote’s importance to the novel; 2) how its tone helps readers better understand the character of Meursault; and 3) how this quote affects your understanding of the novel as a whole.