Part one of term paper
The main character, Dr. Bernard Rieux, is the surgeon and narrator of The Plague. In the beginning of the story he finds a dead rat on the floor. Eventually the dead rats began to pile into large masses and were burned. Soon after there were some people that got very sick, which made Dr. Rieux very curious. Since he was a doctor, he was t ...

Part two of term paper
... as part of the chronicle. M. Michel was a concierge and the first person to die of the plague. After his death, many cases of this illness were reported widespread. Father Paneloux was a priest in Oran. Raymond Rambert was a Paris journalist that became trapped in Oran when the plague became widespread. Cottard was a criminal who hides from arrest in Oran, contracted the disease and one of the last few who died from the plague. He looses his sanity at the end of the book and tries to kill a ...