Parallels within The Stranger (The Stranger)The Stranger by Albert Camus is the story of a sequence of events in a man's life that lead him to question himself. the nature of the universe and its position in it. The book is written in two parts and each part seems to mirror to a large extent the actions taking place in the other. There are curious parallels between the two parts that seem to indicate the emotional state of Meursault, the protagonist, and his view of the world. Meursault is a fairly average individual who is distinguished more by his apathy and passive pessimism than by anything else. He rarely speaks because he usually has nothing to say, and he does what he is told because he feels that resisting orders is more trouble than it is worth. Meursault never did anything notable or distinctive in his life: a fact that makes the events of the book all the more intriguing. The first part of The Stranger begins with Meursault's presence at his mother's funeral. It ends with Meursault on the beach in Algiers killing a man. The second part concerns Meursault's trial for this same murder, his final death sentence and the mental anguish he experiences following this sentence. Several curious parallels appear here, particularly with regard to Meursault's perception of the world. In the first part, Meursault spends the night next to his mother's coffin during a sort of pre-funeral vigil. With him are several elderly people who were friends of his mother in the house where she lived at the time of her death. Meursault has the strange feeling that he sees all their faces very clearly, that he can observe every detail of their clothes and that they will be indelibly printed...... in the middle of a paper... ...r didn't make any essential difference in the end. The nurse at the funeral told him: "If you walk too slowly, you will be exhausted from the heat, but if you walk too quickly, the cool air of the church will make you shiver." » As he kills the Arab, he thinks: “Whether I shoot or not is of no importance; the end will be the same. And during the trial, Meursault told the prosecutor: "I lived my life like this and I did x, but if I had done y or z instead, it wouldn't matter." » And, ultimately, Meursault is right: he discovers that when death approaches, all men are equal, whatever their age or their previous lives. Meursault considers death as an escape: we cannot escape it, but we can. to escape there, and he prepares himself for it, little by little. Each parallel incident is just one more winding of the rope that will bind him completely..