The+Stranger

Some things worth considering...
Good study guide available at this site: http://www.bibliomania.com/1/7/175/1156/frameset.html Register, then you'll be allowed to view a fair number of other well-constructed critiques. (It's a British site designed to help GCSE and A-level students, so the novel is titled __The Outsider__.

[|Camus bio.doc]
 * Biography of Albert Camus as relevant to __The Stranger__**

[|The Cure's "Killing an Arab"] How many references are present? Is The Cure's version nihilistic?
 * Allusions to the novel (if you find more, add them, please):**

[|"The Myth of Sisyphus"]
 * Camus' essay**

[|BILLY JOEL "Stranger" lyrics.doc] Malvina Reynolds' "[|Little Boxes" lyrics.doc] [|Pink Floyd "Time" lyrics.doc]
 * Not exactly allusions, but certainly parallels...**

Check also... Pearl Jam's "Little Boxes" lyrics

Another teacher's prereading worksheet -- this is not an assignment, but it might make the discussion list!
 * Wish I would have seen this before ...** what if you'd taken this before you read the book...?