Journal #5

I believe that Camus split The Stranger into two parts to show Mersault's personality change.  Before the split, Mersault is very clear and precise with everything he does.  He plans everything out ahead of time.  However, when the novel splits into Part 2, Mersault begins to question things that he had not questioned before.  The reader gets a sense of Mersault's emotions that he hid in the first part of the novel.  Also, Camus probably split the novel into two parts to make the reader almost feel as if he/she was starting a new book., and to get a deeper sense of Mersault's change in character.