Consider the description of Oran in The Plague and discuss why you think Camus chose this city as the novel’s setting. Explore Oran’s physical qualities, climate, and socioeconomic structure, as well as the mores and tendencies of its inhabitants as you develop your ideas.

Throughout the course of the plague’s presence in Oran, many of the primary characters undergo substantial changes. Identify which characters demonstrate noteworthy change, the changes themselves, and what specific factors propel them. In your opinion, who changes the most?

Would you argue that the weather serves as a character in the novel? Why or why not?