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 actually attempt to help one of these sick people. Michael
             was his first patient in this matter. He was the sickest person that
             the doctor had ever seen. Michael was pale white and vomited
             often, he hurt so much from the vomiting that he seemed paralyzed.
             Mr. Rieux tried to help the man the best that he could, but he ended
             up dying. Michael was the first person to die of this illness. After
             his death, many cases of this il...

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