The Stranger (L’Étranger) is the first novel written by Albert Camus, French Algerian author, philosopher, journalist and football player who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century. The novel portrays the story as well as the outlook, and the extentialism, of the main character Meursault. The Stranger is considered as a philosophical text too. Theme of The Stranger is the way the characters of the novel look at the world around them. Literature based essay writings such as the outsiders essay, A View from the bridge essay, blood brothers essay etc. are common for English Literature course modules. When an assignment is given to write The stranger essay, student should first decide whether he is/she will apply a critical analysis to the writing or a philosophical approach.