Plague", by Albert Camus. It is about a plague that hit the

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

parallelism the main literary term for this novel, given

infected. As the plot moves on death, sickness and the

doctor had ever seen. Michael was pale white and

plague are still relevant. He studied their behaviors and

away by the title, "The Plague."

Rieux, he tried to comfort and cure the plagued patients.

plague, except for the Chinese visitors. They never were

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Approximate Word count = 1428
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)