d practically worked himself to death. *The Plague takes place in a large Algerian city of Oran in the 1940s. The main epidemic lasted from April until February. The town has a dead look about it. It seems that nobody new has moved her for many years, and the people that live here are literally dying to get out. The children do not play in the streets together anymore.The movie theater played the same movie all during the epidemic, and all of the people still came to watch it once a week. After a while, they became scared that setting so close they could possibly get infected, and the theater became a deserted place as well.Since only a few people were out after dark, the town authorities decided to only turn on half of the streetlights. The town was almost completely dark during the night hours. This made it very difficult for the people who were to find their way.The people became numb to the idea of death and dying. Nothing really seemed to matter to them anymore, as long as they did not contract the plague.Due to all of the deaths, the cemeteries were running over. The authorities had resorted to have two large pits to bury the bodies in-- one for men and one for women. After each new load was dumped in they were dusted with lime to keep the odor to a minimal. Family plots had ceased to matter anymore.The setting of this novel shows how so many regular occurrences can change when such a horrible thing happens in a community. ...
