"The outsider" by Naguib Mahfouz and Albert Camus

"The family that prays together, stays together", a quote which I have often read on the side of my very religious uncle's van, shows how when family values are observed, the unity of the family is preserved. In troubled times, however, the family unit finds it increasingly difficult to stay together. As this process progresses, the eventual downfall of an entire society can occur because the society is simply a group of families. Through the depiction of Said's and Mersault's families, their attitudes toward other families in the novel, and their interest to forming a new family, Albert C…