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Dr. Rieux consults his colleague, Castel, about the illness until they come to the conclusion that a plague is sweeping the town.
Rieux hears from the sanatorium that his wife's condition is worsening.
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.
Rieux is Dr. Rieux's mother, who comes to stay with him when his sick wife goes to the sanatorium.
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.
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.

Rieux and also
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.

Rieux and for
He does not do it for any grand, religious purpose, like Paneloux ( Rieux does not believe in God ), or as part of a high-minded moral code, like Tarrou.
After Mary was betrothed to the Dauphin, a number of ladies of the court were suggested as brides for James, including in May 1557 the Mademoiselle de Bouillon, daughter of Diane de Poitiers and Henry II, Claude and Louise de Rieux, who married René, Marquis of Elbeuf, and Jeane de Savoie.
Passerat's exact share in the Satire Ménippée ( Tours, 1594 ), the great manifesto of the politique or Moderate Royalist party when it had declared itself for Henry of Navarre, is unknown ; but it is agreed that he wrote most of the verse, and the harangue of the guerrilla chief Rieux is sometimes attributed to him.

Rieux and ;
Rieux is like a witness who exercises restraint when called to testify about a crime ; he describes what the characters said and did, without speculating about their thoughts and feelings, although he does offer generalized assessments of the shifting mood of the town as a whole.
Xavier de Fourvière Rieux, French ( 1853-1912 Celebrated preacher, author and poet in the Provençal language ; Prior of Storrington ( W. Sussex ) Our Lady of England Priory 1903-1912

Rieux and cannot
After the boy's death, Paneloux tells Rieux that although the death of an innocent child in a world ruled by a loving God cannot be rationally explained, it should nonetheless be accepted.

Rieux and happiness
Just before Rieux enters the water, he is possessed by a " strange happiness ," a feeling that is shared by Tarrou.

Rieux and .
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.
Meanwhile, Dr. Rieux, a vacationer Jean Tarrou, and a civil servant Joseph Grand exhaustively treat patients in their homes and in the hospital.
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.
* Asthma Patient: The asthma patient receives regular visits from Dr. Rieux.
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.

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It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.
At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.
In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.
He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.
The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.
Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.
The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.
It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.
but there is also compassion.
also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.
And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.
By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.
it is true that they are also extremely dull.
Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.
But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.
Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.
`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.
Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

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