Let’s tell a story first:
In January 2020, the famous NBA player Kobe Bryant passed away in a plane crash.
For a time, NBA fans and non-fans alike fell into grief.
My brother is also one of the loyal fans of Kobe .
When he saw this hot search, my brother was surprisingly calm.
As usual, eating, going to class and sleeping.
seems to have no memory of this idol that he has admired since his youth.
Even if his brother's friends despise him as a "fake fan", he doesn't care and goes his own way.
I didn’t understand it at the time, until one day by chance, I read the book " outsider ".
A person will always have some exaggerated and distorted ideas about things he does not understand. Meursault, the protagonist of the novel
, is a clerk in an ordinary company.
My mother died today. Maybe it was yesterday, I don't know. The nursing home sent a telegram: "My mother passed away. She will be buried tomorrow. Sincerely yours." It said nothing. Maybe it was yesterday.
He asked for leave from his boss and went to a nursing home to attend his mother's funeral.
He did not cry bitterly like other people who came to express condolences, and even wanted to smoke a cigarette on his mother's coffin.
The next day, he met Mary, his former female colleague. They had dinner, watched a movie and went home together.
as usual.
Until, on that beach, he shot and killed his friend's nemesis, an Arab .
Thus, the judicial body’s self-righteous review and approval began.
's mother's death was linked in every possible way to the shooting of the Arab.
My soul is so far away from me yet my existence is so real.
is ridiculous.
"I buried my mother with the mentality of a murderer."
Because I didn't show sadness during my mother's funeral, as if she was indifferent.
thus turned a legitimate self-defense into a long-planned murder.
Meursault became a ruthless and rebellious murderer.
Meursault in the court was criticized by many people.
But he himself looked indifferent.
"Whatever" is casual. He doesn't care about the world, his marriage, his job, and even his life.
It seemed that he was not the one who experienced all this, but an outsider.
" Because I have nothing to say, I don't speak."
Even though he was absurdly sentenced to death .
I experience that this world is so like me and so friendly. I feel that I was happy in the past and I am still happy now. To complete everything, and to make me feel less alone, I also wanted a lot of people to come and watch me on the day of my execution, and hope that they would respond with shouts of hatred to me.
Does Meursault really not love his mother?
I’m afraid not.
He just didn't express his strong sadness in front of others.
will appear so out of place.
Don’t look at people with colored glasses. If you don’t know the whole picture, you won’t comment.
The 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Camus The Award Speech for "The Stranger":
For his important work, in which he illuminated with a clear and eager eye the various problems of human conscience in our time. .
Are people who are ugly and rude must be evil people?
Are kind and gentle people must be good people?
You don’t know, that duplicitous old man who always yells at his dog is actually careful every day Apply medicine to dogs with skin diseases.
You don’t know, but my brother, who seems to be indifferent to the death of his idol, often stares at the big man holding a basketball on the computer desktop in a daze.
There are many things in this world that you don’t know.
Don’t look at people through colored glasses. Preconceptions are sometimes biased from the beginning.
is written at the end: There are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand people. I hope you can also get different insights from the book.
