it looks. The Plague, due to my limited ability to pronounce French names, was filled with characters that practically had no names. I find it difficult to keep track of each character anyway, and this made it virtually impossible. All of the time I was reading, I was wondering who it was talking or trying to save a life. If Camus could have only used names that started with different letters it would have been easier, but many of the names started with the same letter such as: Rambert and Rieux. The name issue really bothered me while I was reading this novel.I enjoy books that do no veer away from the main plot of the story. When Camus mentioned things about the characters child hoods or an insignificant happening of their lives, I felt as though I was watching a really good show on television, and it was paused for a commercial. The subplots in some books are relevant and almost necessary to allow them to make sense, but the ones in this book only served as page-fillers.Even though when this happened the rats really did spread the plague, I enjoyed that aspect of the novel the most. The rats symbolized filth and disease at the beginning, but before it was over the rats had been reborn into a symbol of life and a chance to start over. In Albert Camuss novel The Plague, there are three main cases of symbolism. All of these cases portray the different stages that the plague went through. There are different stages all of which are brought on by different occurrences that have a much deeper meaning than what is printed on the pages.Before any people fell ill, rats began to be found dead in numerous unexpecting places. Dr. Rieux found a dead rat in his building to which his concierge replied, There werent no rats in the building, so someone must have brought this one from outside. (page 7) These dead rats truly symbolize the plague being spread from one unexpecting place to another before the people had even begun to worry.As...
