"The Outsider" by Albert Camus

I. Setting: <Tab/>The Outsider is placed in Algeria in North Africa; we can see this on the first page with the reference to Marengo and Algiers both of which are cities in Algeria. (P. 9) There are two main ethnic groups in Algeria; Arabs and "pied noirs". A pied noir is a Frenchman who was born and raised in Algeria. Arabs and the French had many conflicts on the subject of Algerian independence. France ruled Algeria for over a century and caused severed feelings of resentment by the native Algerians, the Arabs. This puts Raymond's conflict with the Arabs into a better pers…