blog 5

M ( Merceau or however you spell or pronounce it) at the end of part 1 finishes it off with a killing of a seemingly innocent Arab. The initial thought as to why someone as kind as harmless as M would shoot a man 5x is due to a sence of fear. As M was walking past him, the Arab took a knife out and that may have startled M into senclessly pulling the trigger out of fear. There are also clues however from the place and environment around him as to why he may have done it. After being dull and boring for most of part 1, he finally comes out and describes something in detail when he begins to describe the immense heat. He goes into great detail talking about how the sun was brutally beating down upon him and how it was absolutely horrible, almost giving M a sence that he was getting a little loopy from the heat and wasnt really thinking straight. There is also the idea that he is just a cold and heartless man who doesn't really care about anyone and saw no problem with taking another life. Overall, there are many different reasons that M could have shot the Arab, but all we really know is that he did and how he did it, not why.