The main character, Dr. Bernard Rieux, lives comfortably in an apartment building when strangely the building's concierge, M. Michel, a confidante, dies from a fever.

* Asthma Patient: The asthma patient receives regular visits from Dr. Rieux.

The theme of exile and separation is embodied in two characters, Rieux and Rambert, both of whom are separated from the women they love.

Rieux returns to the theme at the end of the novel, after the epidemic is over, when the depth of the feelings of exile and deprivation is clear from the overwhelming joy with which long parted lovers and family members greet each other.

When Tarrou points out that " victories will never be lasting ," Rieux admits that he is involved in a " never ending defeat ," but this does not stop him from engaging in the struggle.

A significant episode occurs near the end of part IV, when Tarrou and Rieux sit on the terrace of a house, from which they can see far into the horizon.

There is a peaceful image of Rieux lying motionless on his back gazing up at the stars and moon, and then when Tarrou joins him they swim side by side, " with the same zest, the same rhythm, isolated from the world, at last free of the town and of the plague.

:* Dr. Bernard Rieux, whose ailment is a terrible cough, from Albert Camus's La Peste (" The Plague ").

Rieux is Dr. Rieux's mother, who comes to stay with him when his sick wife goes to the sanatorium.

Dr. Rieux consults his colleague, Castel, about the illness until they come to the conclusion that a plague is sweeping the town.

Towards the end of October, Castel's new anti-plague serum is tried for the first time, but it cannot save the life of Othon's young son, who suffers greatly, as Paneloux, Rieux, and Tarrou look on in horror.

Rieux reveals that he is the narrator of the chronicle and that he tried to present an objective view of the events.

Rieux reflects on the epidemic and reaches the conclusion that there is more to admire than to despise in humans.

* Dr. Castel: Dr. Castel is one of Rieux's medical colleagues and is much older than Rieux.

He tried but failed to write a letter to her, and he still grieves for his loss .</ br > Grand is a neighbor of Cottard, and it is he who calls Rieux for help, when Cottard tries to commit suicide.

* M. Michel: M. Michel is the concierge of the building in which Rieux lives.

* Dr. Bernard Rieux: Dr. Bernard Rieux is the narrator of the novel, although this is only revealed at the end.

It is Rieux who treats the first victim of plague and who first uses the word plague to describe the disease.

Within a short while, he grasps what is at stake and warns the authorities that unless steps are taken immediately, the epidemic could kill off half the town's population of two hundred thousand within a couple of months .</ br > During the epidemic, Rieux heads an auxiliary hospital and works long hours treating the victims.

Often the relatives plead with him not to do this, since they know they may never see the person again .</ br > Rieux works to combat the plague simply because he is a doctor and his job is to relieve human suffering.

He also keeps a diary, full of his observations of life in Oran, which Rieux incorporates into the narrative .</ br > It is Tarrou who first comes up with the idea of organizing teams of volunteers to fight the plague.

What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.

Meanwhile, Dr. Rieux, a vacationer Jean Tarrou, and a civil servant Joseph Grand exhaustively treat patients in their homes and in the hospital.

Rambert informs Tarrou of his escape plan, but when Tarrou tells him that others in the city, including Dr. Rieux, also have loved ones outside the city whom they are not allowed to see, Rambert becomes sympathetic and changes his mind.

He then decides to join Tarrou and Dr. Rieux to help fight the epidemic.

Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, and the two men go swimming together in the sea.

Grand catches the plague and instructs Rieux to burn all his papers.

Grand tells Rieux that he married while still in his teens, but overwork and poverty took their toll ( Grand did not receive the career advancement that he had been promised ), and his wife Jeanne left him.

Rieux regards him as " the true embodiment of the quiet courage that inspired the sanitary groups.

But it is true that the therapist can sense, when he hears this stereotype, that there are at this moment many emotional determinants at work in it, a blurred babel of indistinct voices which have yet to become clearly delineated from one another.

Amen, amen, I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has life everlasting, and does not come to judgment, but has passed from death to life.

An appellate court is a court that hears cases on appeal from another court.

Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.

Beowulf, a young warrior from Geatland, hears of Hroðgar's troubles and with his king's permission leaves his homeland to help Hroðgar.

The CJ also hears appeals from the Magistrates ' Court.

The SM is resident in the Islands and hears the majority of cases from simple criminal and civil matters right up to very serious criminal matters or complex civil cases.

The SM also hears appeals from the Summary Court.

For example, Adeline is reading the illegible manuscripts she found in her bedchamber ’ s secret passage in the abbey when she hears a chilling noise from beyond her doorway.

At this station Marlow meets the Company's chief accountant, who's dressed in " unexpected elegance "-" Everything else in the station was in a muddle "-Marlow first hears of a Mr. Kurtz from the chief accountant, who explains that Kurtz is a first-class agent, and later adds: "' He will be a somebody in the Administration before long.

In one part of " The Tales of Genji ( Genji monogatari )", Genji falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, who he has never seen before, after he hears her playing koto from a distance.

The premise of the sketch is that the joke is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies from laughter.

According to Crowley in " Liber O ", success in this technique is signaled by physical exhaustion and " though only by the student himself is it perceived, when he hears the name of the God vehemently roared forth, as if by the concourse of ten thousand thunders ; and it should appear to him as if that Great Voice proceeded from the Universe, and not from himself.

While attending the Sunday service at church, John hears strange sounds from the crypt below.

At the toilet, the second most important star of the show, Harry, is feeling ill and asks himself what is happening to his body when he hears a voice from the toilet asking him if he does not feel well: It is the paparazzi F. W.

She co-starred in 1950's The Next Voice You Hear ..., playing a pregnant housewife who hears the voice of God from her radio.

In the matrix, Case hears inhuman laughter, a trait associated with Pauley during Case's work with his ROM construct, thus suggesting that Pauley was not erased after all, but instead worked out a side deal with Wintermute / Neuromancer to be freed from the construct so he could exist in the matrix.

Suddenly, however, he hears music blaring from a transistor radio which contains the same subliminal message.

The person from whom one hears the teaching should have heard it as one link in a succession of listeners going back to the original speaker: the Buddha in the case of a sutra or the author in the case of a book.

The Judicial Council also hears appeals from those who have been accused of chargeable offenses that can result in defrocking or revocation of membership.

The radiation pattern of a combination of point sources is not the same as for a single source, but depends on the distance and orientation between the sources, the position relative to them from which the listener hears the combination, and the frequency of the sound involved.

Once a year, the Committee submits a report to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, which also hears a statement from the CRC Chair, and the Assembly adopts a Resolution on the Rights of the Child.