Olivia Campanelli

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

I think that Fiona uses the kiss as a vehicle to feel young again, and uses Adam (whom she does actually have an intellectual connection with) to mold the feelings that she should have for Jack. She wants to rekindle a spark that maybe doesn't exist anymore. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Adam believes that Fiona has saved his life, & in a way, she has. However, in his letters, it becomes clear that he has developed a crazy fantasy - stalking her and wanting to live with her. His id is coming through. Now that he's free from religion, he's living large. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

I believe that the kiss is meant to parallel how Jack desired a passionate affair with a younger girl. Adam is to Fiona what the statistician is to Jack. While Fiona never had intentions of doing what she did with Adam, Jack purposely went out of his way for pleasure. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Newcastle represents a place where Fiona can be free of Jack and their marital troubles, and where she an let loose. This environment and Fiona's general situation, I believe, led to the kiss. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Fiona is ignorant: she lives in a community for only people of the law, which I'm sure Jack doesn't like. Being a judge in the family division, it would be beneficial for her judgments if she lived outside her little law bubble and experienced more of the world. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

The hospital sounds like a luxurious airport or spa. Before you are confronted with death/sadness, you experience happiness to illuminate entering into your demise, and the gateway between the "spa" and where the patients are signifies entering into and accepting death #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Adam seems to know what he wants and is deeply rooted in his faith. However, he was born into his beliefs and was deeply influenced by his parents. Had he been born into a different family, he'd probably have different beliefs. Therefore, I agree with Fiona's decision. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Changing the locks in her house was pointless because Fiona wound up letting Jack back in and giving him a key anyway. I think she needed to change the locks to feel like she has power over him just like she has power over people's lives in the family court #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

I think it's morally wrong for Jack to have left Fiona as soon as she gets a work call. He's being unreasonable and completely rude to her, when she clearly has problems with him wanting to begin an affair with another woman. I really dislike Jack. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Fiona seems really overwhelmed by everything that she has on her plate at the moment. She has so much work to do and Jack just doesn't seem to get it. All he cares about is being sexually active. Also they have terrible communication skills... #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Fiona seems to believe that her husband has already begun the affair even though he swears he hasn't done anything with Melanie - someone who is much younger than him. What do you think? #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

What decision would you have made as a judge if you were working on the case of Matthew and Mark's possible separation? Personally, I would have made the same decision as Fiona. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Just as Meursault ponders in Chapter 5, do you think it matters if you die soon by execution or later down the line from natural causes? What do you think? #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Meursault finally begins to realize that life has a past, present, and future more than just today and tomorrow. This is a big step for him in his final days. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Meursault thinks about women all the time while in prison, but never specifically about Marie. Being that he's emotionless and all, he doesn't care about Marie as a person, just that she's an easily acquired woman. Not exactly husband material... #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

To me, Meursault's confinement shows that he does not feel guilty about the crime that he committed. It's weird because his crime was a crime of passion, yet he is absolutely emotionless... Ironic #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Meursalt seems to be the kind of character that lives in the moment, as he not once references the events from the first three chapters in this next section. He is emotionless and only thinks about the present. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

The encounter with the police officer and the slaps show the corrupted property of society's morals. It's not okay when Raymond slaps his mistress, but it is okay when the policeman slaps Raymond? #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

Salamano assumes that Meursalt loves his mom just as he loved his dog, though Meursalt never really loved his mom and Salamano never really loved his dog either, he just loved to beat it. #laylit18

[Olivia Campanelli @ocampanellio]

I think Salamano says that Meursalt loved his mother very much so that he could get over the guilt of having lost his dog, even though Meursalt doesn't exactly care about his mother or her passing. #laylit18