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Albert Camus' "The Plague"


The novel that I chose to do this report on was, "The Plague", by Albert
Camus. It is about a plague that hit the European countries in the middle ages.
I chose to describe the literary term of parallelism. Here are some following
facts about the story's plot that involve parallelism through the novel.

The novel begins at Oran where the plague becomes known. The main
character, Dr. Gernard Rieux, is a doctor. In the beginning of the story he
finds a dead rat on the floor. Even in those times rats were not found dead on
the middle of the floor. This was unusual, but he threw out the rat and forgot
about it. Eventually the dead rats began to pile into large masses and burned.
Soon after there were some people that got very sick, which made Mr. Rieux very
curious. These reports of these ill people and the death of the rats were the
beginning of the parallelism for this story.

Since Bernard was a doctor he was the first to......

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