In "<em>The Stranger</em>", by Albert Camus, Meursault describes shooting the Arab after he's already dead as follows:
"I knew I’d shattered the balance of the day, thespacious calm of this beach on which I had been happy. But I fired four shots more into the inert body, on which they left no visible trace. And each successive shot was another loud, fateful rap on the door of my undoing."
He describes it as <em>knocking loudly on the door of his downfall</em>.
He is captured by a colonel who is son of Don Lupe that was killed by Juvencio. When some men are trampling on his small property he goes out to tell them not to do that when he is captured. He doesn't want to die and he says that he is not a threat to anybody because he is too old then the colonel tells his men to get Juvencio drunk.
Among many of the things Cabeza De Vaca describes, some of them are Languages, Healing Methods, and the behavior between a man and his wife.
<h3>Language Lessons
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Cabeza De Vaca described the major languages of the people of the Isle of Misfortune. - Chapter Twenty-Six (Page 71)
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Healing Methods - Chapter Twenty-One (Page 58)</h3>
He recounts that Castillo made the sign of the cross on the Indians and commended them to God. After he did this, they indicated that their pains were gone.
<h3>The behavior between a man and his wife's family
- Chapter Twenty-Four (Page 67)</h3>
Cabeza de Vaca describes here how it is that
- men refused to sleep with their wives from the time they first noticed that they were pregnant until the child became two years in age.
- There was also the practice of leaving children who could not keep up with them as they traveled to die in the desert.
- He also noted that among childless couples, they would leave each other and marry whomever they wanted if there was a disagreement.
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