Present by Yuka Kondo

Aiko Hayashi

Learning experience: what he gained from his school life

Social circumstance: family, friends, anything happened around him

Born on November 1913, in Algiers Lost his father earlier during WWI His mother was deaf, sullen and

poor One brother Married and divorced in 1930 and

1935 Returned from WWII and remarried Worked in a private school Published “The Stranger” and “The

Myth of Sisyphus”

1918: Algiers lycee high school, discover his natural talent

1923:won a high school scholarship

Sports and tuberculosis

University of Algiers: studied philosophical ideas

1943: started working as a journalist

• Setting:Algiers

• Missing father: [Novel] he does not

introduce his father [Reality] he lost his father

earlier

• Study of philosophy affects the theme of novel and character

Meaning of life (existentialism, nihilism,absurdism)

Committing crime [novel] Mersault killed an

Arab [reality] Camus did not

commit crime WWII [novel] Novel takes places

before WWII [reality] Camus experienced

WWII

How do your previous lessons affect your current life?

• Do you think your experience will affect your life in the future? Why or why not?

• Why do you think Camus started the novel with a scene of his mother’s death?

InterviewAdult:Did do your learning experience and social circumstances affect your life later?

Students:Do (did) your learning experience of your school life affect your life?

[Yes] communication with several ages people during childhood ⇒ adapt easily to new environment and new people (by Yuka’s mother)

[Yes]her father and relatives had been working at school, her favourite teacher in elementary school ⇒ decided to become a teacher (by Aiko’s mother)

[Yes] limited social circumstances of her past

　 ⇒　 try completely different activities and grow in many different ways now ( by a teacher)

[Yes] Experience from high school is helpful → opinion help to work in the society (by ISB student)

[Yes] Experience forms a sense of value or way of thinking → Learn the value of study by living in Thailand (by Students who was in ISB)

[No] ISB is a loss of time and money → No pleasure, Not improving your English skills, Useless for the entrance examination for university (by Students who graduate ISB)

Students’ point of view

[Novel] his learning experience and social circumstances were somewhat reflected in the novel.

[Survey] We might not realize the importance of education and experiences now, but experiences during childhood have great influences on one’s life later.