During the first chapters, one begins to get bored and starts to feel that the book will never keep on. Meursalt will always be the same grouch and ogre towards his family, friends and life itself. It would seem that if the book was to keep this course, reading it would be a waste of time. But then there was where I was wrong. These two chapters have changed the book completely, going from a story of man who hates everything and everyone, to being convicted of a murder (even though it was in personal defense). This single action leads to a greater reaction that will take the us to a new environment for the novel. We' ll enter a new world where Meursalt will be very busy to look down upon anything, but himself and his ways. I've always heard about how "Karma comes to return things you've done in you life", and I think this is a perfect example. Meursalt had this negativity that makes him better being dead. He looks at life as the worst thing that has ever happened to him (except for wine and cigarettes). No respect what so ever for his loved ones, friends, colleagues and neighbours. For being this way, Karma will make Meursalts life worse and will give him a problem (like the murder) that might change obligate him to change his ways. I believe this will happen or better yet I hope it does. There is one specific aspect of Mr. Meursalt that simply makes me want to close the book and cease reading. It's his way of not enjoying life. At the beginning of the book I believed he was going to end up killing himself. It seems to me (as I stated from the beginning), that Meursalt is a man who is waiting for something to occur in his life that will give him a specific purpose in life. We will never learn this, until the book is finished.
As I was reading along, finding a connection to another character in a movie during these chapter's, was really hard. I couldn't find anyone at first, but then it came to me that looking for someone literally like Meursalt would be impossible. It took me quite sometime to find a connection, but after thinking it over I did. In the Last Samurai, Tom Cruise takes on the role of Captain from the United States Army that was in charge of fighting the indigenous rebels. His name is Nathan Algren. He's a man that carries with a burden. During one of his missions, Algren notices that the tribe they we're going to kill was innocent of a rebellion that had taken place. His Commanding Officer does not care and makes Nathan and the rest of the battalion slaughter the whole village. Algren suffers during his whole life, hating anything that comes his way, just like Meursalt does in the book. Although they are alike, they have one single difference that I hope will occur to Meursalt. Algren changes his way of looking at life and forgives himself for his burden. I believe Mr. Meursalt is a man that also carries a burden that we haven't yet learned about, maybe it might be the murder or something else that we will discover along the way.
After reading these chapter's, some of my questions started being answered. For example I know no that Meursalt is going to marry Marie. I never really found out what happen to Salomon's dog, he must of never found him. We still don't know why Mr. Meursalt is so negative and hates everything. Finally I'm still curious to find out what was Maman's and Meursalt's relationship like. There is one question that can be answered fully. Raymond did drag Meursalt along with him. It was Raymond's gun that Meursalt was holding when he killed the Arab, also it was because of Raymond that he got into trouble with the Arab. Everything that has happened in this two chapter's has a connection with Raymond, this man seems to be causing lots of trouble since he showed up in the book and in Meursalt's life. I think something worst is going to happen and it will all be because of Raymond.
- What's going to happen to Meursalt, is he going to jail or we'll he be freed?
- Is he still going to marry Marie?
- Will Raymond still have a negative influence Meursalt's life?
- If he is sent to jail, will this change Meursalt's way of looking at life? Will he stop being so negative?
- Did Meursalt really care about Maman? If he did why didn't he say or act like it when she died?
1 comment:
keep on should be go on
karma should be in lower-case not Karma
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