Journal #3: The Stranger

I think there are many reasons Camus split the book into two parts. The most obvious reason to the reader is to split Mersault's normal life with his life in jail being accused. Camus uses part two to go farther into Mersault's thoughts and to create more of a sense of him. In part one, he seems very passive and does not think much of his life but when he is in jail, he goes deep into his life and really thinks about everything in his life. Camus does keep sleep as a motif in both parts. "Then there was sleep (...) the last few months I've been sleeping sixteen to eighteen hours a day" (79). However, The diffferences between the motif of sleep in the two parts is, in part one, Mersault is always sleepy or drowsy and wanting to sleep and in part two he is sleeping 16 to 18 hours a day.