"We"??

We are alone. The term "we" is often used in society, but really is it "we" who does everything? Isn't it sometimes just an excuse to blame everyone for something but really when it is something possitive we like to take the credit for it, as in "I". Or for instance, "we" may also be used for phrases such as "we are alone." Somebody in the world had to come up with that, but for them to not seem as radical, or weird they take as if the whole world agreed to it. The truth is, is that its false.

While reading the stranger I got the feel that Mr. Meursalt does feel that he is alone, but that he never uses the term "we". He only thinks about himself, not about others or his affect on others, he only lives the moment as in "I". Mr. Muersalt seems to feel as if he didn't belong in the society that he is in, although he doesn't state that directlly in the text one gets the impression because of his actions. For example while he was in his mothers funeral he didn't really understand why people were crying, rather he was irritated by it. Or when Marie proposes to him he doesn't really care nor does he seem excited about it. He kills a person with no real argument and then doesn't know how to defend himself. He might say "we" because even though he knows he is a stranger he might not want to feel as such, or maybe because he feels as an outcast he will try to grap a nonexistant support and bring it to his life, which would be the "we".

There are moments in which one may feel alone, nevertheless we are never alone. If one wishes to be alone, that person can be physically lonesome but I believe that there are more powerfull forses that watch over us and protect us from that lonesome. Although there are moments when I believe that this isn't true, life has shown me that God has always protected me and that because of that I should protect others. Although one may feel that one is alone, there are million of other people that feel this way, meaning that you are never alone. Many people feel the same as "you" so that would turn into "we". Looking back to the phrase "we are alone" it is contradictory due to the fact that if one is with other people as in "we", we are always accompanied.

People may decide to want to push people away, or see life as in an existentialist point of view but I believe that at the end of the day noone wants to feel alone. Even Mersault, who I believed was a person that always wanted to push away others around him when he was going to be executed he said he would of liked to have been accompanied. "For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to with that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate". (Pg 123)