![]() Rather than exaggerate, Rieux uses imaginative images and factual realism for the chapter's atmosphere. ![]() His sense of objective purpose concerning the chronicle has the same perseverance that he has demonstrated in his doctoring. Rieux, however, controls his sensational subject, writes succinctly, and reports what he saw, not lapsing into melodrama. Oran's crude mass burials would have tempted most writers to create the most vividly dramatic inferno imaginable, the volume's longest chapter. ![]() The dying and the burying of which he must speak have loathsome particulars. His concern here, for the most part, is with the dead and dying, and because most of the section deals with the details of interment, Rieux has, like the Oranians in their task of withstanding the fever and the summer heat, his own test. As the chapter builds in intensity, corpses are piled quietly in ever-higher heaps, and Rieux does not dwell with the monotonous minutes of daily living, waiting, and enduring. ![]() Despondency has stultified the population. The panic-generated energy of Part 11 is gone. Part III consists of only one chapter - a short, intense chronicle of the crisis weeks in Oran, the time when two natural powers - the plague's rising fever and the midsummer sun-incinerate the city's prisoners. ![]()
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