In this book Meursault, Raymond, and Marie go on vacation to the beach. Then Meurasult, and Raymond later attempt to have a conflict, with two Arabs. Then when Raymond was going to confront one of them, Meursault shoots one of them, and kills him. He then has to go to jail. Meursault should have not done this because now he has to deal with  being in jail for a long time. What they tried to do was not thought out properly, and should have found another way to handle it. It seems unclear why they went and killed the Arab in the first place. There had to be a real reason as to why they even were going to do something about it, which then became a problem to them. it seems as though there was something going on between them, and the two Arabs. But still it wasn't really thought out before they did it.