Part 1: I believe that Ward's version was better. I think that he stayed closer to the actual story and made Meursalt how he was originally supposed to act in the eyes of Camus. Both Gilbert's and Ward's versions have different ways of being the short, choppy, concise sentences that are present in the book. I believe Ward does a better job portraying the short, choppy sentences and Meaursalt's thoughts and feelings.
Part 2: Even though The Stranger sounds the best and fits the best in my opinion I'm gonna take a shot at saying that irrelevant would fit even better. I think that when Meursalt is explaining things such as the setting, it is really irrelevant and random. "The sky was already filled with light. The sun was beginning to bear down on the earth and it was getting hotter by the minute" (Hurston 15). Meursalt thinks that some things are irrelevant that shouldn't be as well. Like when his mom died and how he couldn't remember how old she was. I think that is quite odd how he spends so much time thinking about little things and very little time on more important things. It highlights what he puts value in and makes him seem quite maladjusted.
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