Who's the Narrator?

 Now I'm writing this right before I read the last section of the book because I really wanted as much information as possible to look at before trying to decide who the narrator of The Plague is. I wasn't actually expecting Camus to take so long before revealing who the narrator was, I was kind of expecting in somewhere in the middle of the book, but I suppose it would be harder to look at other people's point of views after you know exactly who's talking. Now there are a few things that the narrator says that lets me eliminate some people, first off he talks about people that are forced to stay in this town while traveling as another group, so I think it is safe to assume that the narrator does live in this town. This can eliminate the reporter which I think would've made a great narrator but since he doesn't really know what this town is like when the plague isn't here so it would be hard to comment on the extent of the changes the plague causes to us. Though I still think he would make a pretty good narrator as he should be invested in telling people about this plague as a reporter. The narrator also says that he knows what it is like to be separated from your love so it is safe to assume that like Rieux or Rambert his significant other is out of town at the moment. Now this really makes me believe that Rieux is the narrator, which would make sense, he is one of the biggest characters in the story and most of the other main characters interact with him regularly. He appears in practically every chapter so it would make sense to me if he was the narrator. The only reason that I feel that he might not be the narrator is because it wouldn't make too much sense to not just have him be revealed as the narrator at the beginning of the book, I do think that he makes the most sense out of the rest of the characters though.

My First Thoughts on The Plague

 When I first saw The Plague, I was honestly not expecting it to be about the Bubonic Plague, I figured it would be some weird completely made fantasy plague or something like that, although this might be slightly more interesting as I have actually learned about it in history class freshman year. Of course I do think it is interesting to look at this story while having the perspective of out current pandemic. I do find it slightly odd how they notice that all the rats are dying and do know about the plague and how it is transferred via fleas yet they don't think anything of it. They completely ignore the rats to begin with and even when thousands of rats died while spurting up blood they don't take any precautions and don't even kind of associate it with any kind of disease, much less the plague. The narrating style is also kind of weird, the narrator clearly mentions at the beginning of the book that he is both a third person and first person narrator and I'm okay with that it makes sense and I can understand why its setup like that completely. But he speaks about himself in the third person, referencing himself as the narrator, it just seems kind of odd. I'm also not completely sure how real this story is, because it could be all real, although I don't think it is, it could also be completely fake, although in my opinion it falls somewhere in-between as a fake story based on a real event. I do like the book so far though, it is interesting to look at it while going through this current pandemic, although I know that is why we are reading it to begin with.