I think Albert Camus had obvious purpose in dividing The Stranger into two parts. I'm going start with the fact that he starts part 2 right after the shooting. The immediate shift in not only the structure of the book but also Mersault's feelings and attitude is highlighted by the abrupt stop in writing. This abrupt stop in the middle of the climax also places extreme intention and purpose in a small amount of space. Another reason Camus did this was to divide Mersault's problems and reactions and thoughts towards those problems. In part 2, he has to overcome being the judged. He is the physical object in the "absurdist" courtroom. whereas, in part 1, Mersault was a fairly unjudgemental person and was not usually the target of the absurdism.
Another big thing i noticed was the Mersault plans everything very heavily and thinks in a very linear fashion, with simple jumps back in the line of his thought process to more looming things. In part 2, he has this freedom taken from him. this may be related to the whole "active consciousness" part of absurdism. He can't think the way he wants, and he cannot set his planned schedule. In effect, this takes away his free thought which takes away his free action.
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