The novel that I chose to do this report on was, "The.

             Plague", by Albert Camus.

             European countries in the middle ages. I chose to.

             describe the literary term of parallelism. Here are some.

             following facts about the story's plot that involve.

             parallelism through the novel. The novel begins at Oran.

             where the plague becomes known. The main character,.

             Dr. Gernard Rieux, is a doctor. In the beginning of the.

             story he finds a dead rat on the floor. Even in those times.

             rats were not found dead on the middle of the floor. This.

             was unusual, but he threw out the rat and forgot about it.

             Eventually the dead rats began to pile into large masses.

             and burned. Soon after there were some people that got.

             very sick, which made Mr. Rieux very curious. These.

             reports of these ill people and the death of the rats were.

             the beginning of the parallelism for this story. Since.

             Bernard was a doctor he was the first to actually attempt.

             to help one of these sick people. Michael was his first.

             patient in this matter. He was the sickest person that the.

             doctor had ever seen. Michael was pale white and.

             vomited often, he hurt so much from the vomiting that he.

             seemed paralyzed. Mr. Rieux tried to help the man the.

             best that he could, but he ended up dying. Michael was.

             the first person to die of this illness. After his death, many.

             cases of this illness were reported widespread. Again.

             more details of sickness and death, this is the parallelism.

             for this novel.