In the novel of The Stranger, Meursault the main character says, "I had only one wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my excustion and that they greet me with cries of hate."
~Do you feel that his statement should be an appropriate from Meursault who is about to die, or do you feel that Meursault should have confessed, and been more sincere towards everything he has done. Inluding the people that he has encountered, like Marie, raymond, and even Salamano.
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When Muersault says that he would rather just have many spectators when he died to greet him with cries of hate, he is saying that now that he is dying, people will really be able to show how they feel about him, and that this is how the end is. I believe that this might not have been an appropriate statement for him to make as he was about to die, but he knew nothing else. To him, he did not know how to confess because he beleived he lived his life the way he was supposed to. He says, "Well, so I'm going to die. Sooner than other people will, obviously" (Camus 114). This statement shows that he has accepted the fact he is going to die and knows that eventually it would have happened, so no matter what he did, it would all end the same way. Therefore, even though a man should not say something like that before he is to die, Meursault knew nothing else, and therefore said what he beleived should happen when he dies.
When Meursault hopes that people will cheer him with cries of hate when he dies, I believe that his statement inappropriate at the moment. He was going to die, no matter what he could not convey his feelings out in a proper way. He was never taught how to express his feelings in a different way. Sometimes Meursault can come across very blunt, but I wish he could change his tone, even if he knows nothing else.
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