Option A

Every Morning … we lift our spoons to our mouths (Zamyatin 12)

Through this passage written by D-503, we see how things are run in the One State. Everything is dictated through the Table of Hours which states when they eat, when they go and take walks, and everything else and everyone follows the same routine. As D-503 wrote in a previous passage, he no longer thinks of people (or numbers in this case) as “I” but rather “We”. Everything is mathematically controlled and nothing is questioned, just done. Most of the residents in the One State seem to enjoy the system and seem to not think much of it. They are also monitored very closely and they are controlled for every little aspect of their lives, right down to their “sexual days”, giving each person a pink coupon to give them permission to close their blinds to allow some privacy from the transparent walls. Also because of the Green Wall, which isolates the numbers from the world outside of the glass dome of the one state, the inhabitants know nothing of the world outside of their mathematical realities and so they accept what they have and live their life day by day.

Word Count: 203

What conclusion does Meursault come to at the end of the text?

Mersault seems to be at peace with himself at the end. he just states that oh I don't care, everyone dies at some point so why does it matter that I have my life cut short by like 20 years. The way Camus says it, it doesn't seem like it is a bad thing so I assume that he wanted the readers to feel the same thing and as for Mersault being happy or unhappy, I wouldn't say he was either, just content, just taking what is given to him and not thinking any more or any less of the situation.

Thesis Statement

Through the use of foil characterization, the crucifix and the symbol of the court room, Albert Camus shows that without proper guidance and beliefs, one's life becomes trivial and meaningless that leaves the person in a standstill, not proceeding forward nor falling back.

Why use part one and part two?

Albert Camus separates the book into two parts to show how Meursault changes throughout the book. in part one he seems to be just an insignificant human who goes through the motions and just takes what life thrown at him. he doesn't care about anything or anyone and shows hardly emotion. In part two, he is thrown in jail for killing that Arab guy on the beach so all of his freedoms are taken away. at first he says that it was hard for him because his thought were that of a free person's but he eventually got used to it. throughout part two he shows a lot more emotion and he actually seems to be alive. he reflects on his life up to this point and just changes overall. Camus just uses the two parts to emphasize that change.