The Stranger A Communication Theorist View
The Stranger - A Communication Theorist ViewThroughout history people have been judged on their color of skin, gender, social status and physical characteristics. What makes people judge others? Could it the way they were raised, or maybe their culture that they have lived in had an influence on how they judge people. I think that those might have an influence, but I think the human race is inherently judgmental. Communication theorist have say that the way we perceive someone is part of our everyday communication and are adopted the usually the first time we meet someone or if we have had a bad experience in the past associated with a particular group. In the book The Stranger by Albert Camus , the main character Meursault will eventually have his life sentenced to death based on the way people perceived him towards his Maman instead of being charged with murder.
The title of the book confused me at first after I had finished reading the book. I couldn’t see why it was called The Stranger. After discussions in our class and pondering this question ,I came up with my answer. The reason the book is titled the way it is, is the way that everyone in the society and those who interacted with Meursault perceived him as a stranger because he hardly showed any emotion in his life. At least that is what I have perceived and it is my only logical answer that I could get to that question.
Communication theorist define perception as the way we view “X”. Meursault through out the book is concerned with how others perceive him. On page one in the middle of the page Meursault is telling about his boss and says this, “I asked my boss for two days off and there was no way he was going to refuse me with an excuse like that. But he wasn’t to happy about it. I even said, “”It’s not my fault.”".” This indicates that Meursault is concerned with how his boss would not perceive him as a responsible employee. And afraid that some sort ramification would come about for having to take off work. Later in the paragraph Meursault says, “After the funeral, though, the case will be closed, and everything will have a more official feel to it.” This shows that he does care about how he is perceived.
Later in the book on page 27 Meursault starts to talk about Salamano and his dog. He goes about telling about how Salamano would go on a walk with his dog and how he would always beat his dog if it got in front of him. He later goes outside and says hello to Salamano. At the Time Salamano was yelling at...
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