At the end of the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, there is a change in Mersault's thoughts. "So close to death Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too. As if that blind rage had washed me clean" (Camus 122). Mersault comes to the conclusion that since everyone dies, people should live life to the fullest. Mersault concludes that they way that a person dies does not matter either; he does not say that there is any difference between his situation and his mother's. Furthermore, he wants to celebrate all the time that he has left. I also feel that he feels a little regret for not realizing it either. As a whole, maybe this shows that people don't realize how good things are until they are gone or almost gone.
I believe Camus does want people to make these conclusions too. He wrote the book with his own opinions, and he wants to get his points across to people. I don't see any downside of making these conclusions to be honest.
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