Analysis Upon reading The Stranger by Albert Camus, Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe , one can easily note the similar situations that face the protagonists. All three have the burden of oppression to bear. Yet what separates Meursault, Rubashov, and Tom is the way that each chooses to handle his dilemma. It is not hard to see that Tom’s optimistic outlook on life as a …showed first 75 words of 953 total…

…showed last 75 words of 953 total…of Christ?’ he said, in a voice that contended with mortal weakness; and, with a smile, he fell asleep.” Works Cited “Request for Survival”. Time 1 March 1968: 85-86. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1973. 170. Burgess, Anthony. The Novel Now: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction. New York: Norton & Co., Inc.; 1967. 107-108. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1973. 170. Camus, Albert. The Stranger. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1946.