Journal #2

Albert Camus uses first person point of view because it is a lot more personal. The reader knows all of Meursault's thoughts, which seem at first insignificant, but as we read on we realize how important they were. If this book was written from a third person point of view there would only be his action's to judge. Also, the reader has to trust the narrator. As first person, the reader can understand it is Meursault's story and he wants to tell every part because at the end of his life he realizes the significance to everything he has done or not done. Before, "To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing" (57). He found soon after that he was quite wrong.