The Stranger part 3

One day Mersault decides to go with his neighbor Ramon and Marie to the beach, to stay at one of Ramon’s friends. On the way to the beach Ramon sees some Arabs which are brothers of his girlfriend; he knows that they do not like him at all after what he has done to her sister and that they might get him into trouble. At the beginning they do look like they would not pay attention to Ramon so Ramon and the other continue their journey to the beach. At the moment when they arrive at the beach they notice that the Arabs had fallowed them and Ramon gets into a fight. After that they go to Ramon’s friend and stay there for dinner, Ramon is so mad that he goes again out to the beach to find the Arabs with a gun, Mersault is worried about him so that he fallows Ramon and takes his gun. When they see the Arabs they get into a conflict and the Arab takes out a knife, in this situation while the sun is hitting Mersault he makes a wrong decision and shoots him. He does not only shoot once at him but four times. Even though this whole story gets him into jail, he does not regret what he has done, for the first time he felt like being part of something. In the court, he gets again judged for being a emotionless person, and all his cold relationship with his mother will be used against him. Everyone tells about how he reacted at his mother funeral, which put him into a bad picture for the jury. They would think that he killed the Arab because he is such a cruel person not for protection. He does not even try to protect himself when he is asked to say the final word. He knows that everyone was against him and would not understand him. At the time when he stays in jail, it surprised me how he described being there, he makes it seem not as bad as everyone thinks. He would stay their lonely, as he was always, living from his memories. All he ever wanted was to be accepted and understood for his indifferent personality but in the end he gets judged just because of that.