This thesis evaluates Albert Camus’s The Stranger, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and Michael Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter on the basis of rebellion, as conceptualized in Camus’s own The Rebel. Chapter 1 focuses on The Stranger’s protagonist, Meursault, whose absurdist perspective of indifference to societal ideology represents a rebellion against the manipulation of meaning. In Chapter 2, Invisible Man is presented as having a reader-centered, pedagogical purpose implicit within the exhibition of the narrator’s journey towards awareness, that is meant to inspire both individuality and rebellion in its readers. Chapter 3 evaluates the notion of Ondaatje himself being the central rebel figure of his novel, which works to break barriers between author, reader, and characters. These three novels, then, when observed within a dialogue of Camus’s philosophy of rebellion, not only represent the different forms that rebellion may assume, but also illuminate the novel as a tool for invoking rebellion through the inspiration of individual thought and singular artistic vision in their readers.