1984 Journal 1

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. 



Juxtaposition
Foreshadowing that fundamental things have changed
Makes Winston seem like he his hiding (anti hero)
Imagery
diction

Stranger Journal 1

I noticed that Mersault has about a 1:5 ratio for work to fun. So far he has mentioned only twice i think but talked about going to the beach, eating at a restaurant, and hooking up with Marie. He also has literally only had one half day of work to two or three days off. There is also a lot of talk about heat. This is mostly during the funeral because it didnt really seem like he wanted to be there

Stranger journal 6

Despite my willingness to understand, I just couldn't. After all, there really was something ridiculously out of proportion. Between the verdict such certainty was based. From the moment the verdict was announced. The sentence had been read at eight o'clock at night and not five o'clock. It could have been an entirely different one. It had been decided by men who change their underwear. It had been handed down. In the name of some  notion called the French.

stranger journal 5

The thing that has changed the most is the way Mersault describes people. In the beginning he called an arab nurse simply "the nurse" but in the second part he refers to arab people in a derogative way. When he's sitting in the visting room in prison he says there were Moorish people next to him. He no seems to be turing into a racist becasue he hangs out with Raymond. I also noticed that when he talks about Marie he doesn't only talk about the sex. He seems more passive on the topic of Marie and focuses more on just the idea of a woman.

Stranger Journal 4

"It was very hot" 66 
"It was getting hotter and hotter" 69
"cymbals of sunlight crashing on my forehead" 59


"It was a very bright white-washed room with a skylight for a roof" 6
"harsh light pouring out of the sky onto the windows and spilling into the room brought on a kind of dizziness"73


"The prison was on the heights above the town, and through a small window I could see the sea" 73
"my room looks out over the mian street in the neighborhood" 21

Stranger journal 2

Marie: I think she is in the novel to show that Mersault is more concerned with things that could physically please him rather than emotionally. She asks him to marry her and his response is it wouldn't make a difference to him whether it happened or not. He has already slept with her and they currently have all the physical connections you could have so he thinks have a legal bond between them would change nothing.

Raymond: These two seem to compliment each other nicely. Mersault has a passive attitude towards the idea of Raymond gertting revenge on his "girlfriend" so he writes the letter without any thought of the consequences. It seems that most people wouldn't want to hang out with Raymond because he is notoriously known as a pimp so Mersault is there to keep him company. The two never really truly connect with each other, they just talk about Raymond's plan and smoke his cigarettes

Stranger Journal 3

I think The Stranger fits this book the best because the other two don't fully describe how Mersault fits in the book. The Outsider makes it seem like Mersault would be on the outside of society or he wouldn't fit in which isn't necessarily true. He is able to assimilate fairly well with the other citizens he just is a little different. The Foreigner would give him an image of having no idea what the customs of the society is in are. He knows exactly what he should be doing he just doesn't do it. A foreigner usually stands out to the indigenous people but Mersault isn't somebody that gets noticed a whole lot because of his passive nature.