Criminals

I recently read You Cant Win, the record of Jack Black. This book was a best seller in 1926, and was a favorite of William S. Burroughs. As I read it, I could see how Burroughs first novel, Junky, was influenced by Blacks history. moreover what came to mind more often were recollections of Albert Camus The Stranger. In The Stranger, we follow the events in the life of Meursault, Meursault is a pied-noir: a Frenchman born and raised in colonial Algeria. The title of this book in French is LEtranger, and the primary of definition of étranger is stranger. Meursault appears as a foreigner or outsider, living life through physical sensations, except with little meaningful connection to the society around him. At his perplexs funeral he displays no emotion. He is live(a) only to the sensations of the sun, the sea, and casual sex with Marie, a woman who apply to work in his office. Meursault thus drifts along through life, reacting sort of than acting. Through a seemingly meaningless series of events he finds himself on a beach, in the blazing sun, confronting an Arab that had had an altercation with Meursaults friend Raymond.

Meursault has Raymonds gun in his pocket, and when the Arab draws a prod in the blinding sun, the light glinting off the firebrand wish a long flashing blade berth at my forehead, Meursault pulls the gun and shoots. He then fires quadruplet more shots into the body. Jack Blacks life in You Cant Win is very much like that of Meursault. He is raised by an emotionally distant father, his mother having died when he was quite young. His only desire is to go west and have adventures similar to those that he has read about in dime novels. The events take place in the early 1900s, so the West of legend has not completely vanished into history. Black travel in first with hobos and then with thieves and other members of the yegg brotherhood: a loose confederation of criminals who commit burglaries and other crimes; and travel the unsophisticated by... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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