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In the mid 1940’s, Albert Camus, began to write the novel . The story has been read over and over again, yet it tells more than it seems to. It tells the story of a town gripped by a deadly disease, and of how the inhabitants thrive to overcome it. Many consider the inhabitants’ fight against to be an allegor ....

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.... which means “revolting” against injustices and fighting the “against s that enslave man.” 3This belief runs throughout the novel; and the main characters all represent this belief. Camus could not have created a better setting for the novel.The story takes place in the desert town of Oran, Algeria, in northern Africa.The city suffers from extremes of weather conditions; in the summer and the heat forces the inhabitants "to spend those days of fire indoors, behind closed shutters." The peo ....