A part of the 20th century (born in 1996)

When it comes to Antoinette, Christophine seems like the only thing in the world that actually cares about her. Whenever Antoinette has no one to turn to, she's always there for her. She organizes play dates for her, helps her out with her issues with ex-slaves, tries to protect her from other white people, and serves as her defacto mother. Christophine as a motherly figure is probably the most telling about her relationship with Antoinette. When Antoinette's mother started actively pushing herself away from Antoinette and focused more on her little brother Pierre, Christophine stepped in to replace her. This relationship between Christophine and Antoinette even continues all the way into Antoinette's marriage. Once Antoinette is married to Rochester, Christophine immediately knows that he only married her for the money and as such, shows contempt for him and tries to save Antoinette from her marriage by trying to persuade her to leave him. Whenever Antoinette is having t...

Meursault in The Stranger is one of the weirdest protagonists we've read about (other than Gregor) so far and that is mostly due to Meursault's lack of emotion in all situations. If the book was written in third person, then the lack of emotion would seem a bit more plausible, but Camus writes the book in first person, a point of view that is supposed to give us the most insight of the protagonist, yet all we get from Meursault are his physical reactions to various stimuli in the world. The only "emotion" we get from his is detachment as can be seen in various situations like at his mother's funeral, when he kills the Arab, etc. Maybe the reason for this detachment is because of Meursault's attempt to conform to his own interpretation of society. Meursault's interpretation and maybe even Camus's is that detachment is a symptom of the modern world and that everyone who lives in it, practices it. Throughout the story, character's are i...