Compare and Contrast
This book has an Arab narrator
What is The Meursault Investigation?
"I didn't want to kill time" (page 105)
Who is Harun?
Muslim natives in Algeria refer to the French by this derogatory name
What is Roumi?
The witness to the French man's body
Where is the lemon tree?
Learning this language helps Harun gain freedom from his mother
What is French?
This book emphasizes the day Sunday
What is The Stranger?
"If you kill a single person, it is as if you have killed the whole of mankind" (page 91)
What is the Koran?
The revolution ended this long after Musa's death
When are 13 years?
"...I loathe its architecture, the big finger pointed to the sky." (page 139)
Where is the mosque?
This character is deaf
Who is the ghost?
One of two characters who had a difficult relationship with his mother
Who are Meursault and Harun
"Work fast" (page 78)
Who is Mama?
Algeria gained independence on this summer day in 1962
When is July 5th?
"I slept again, for a very long time, while unseen trees tried to walk, flailing about with their big branches in the effort to free their black flagrant trunks." (pg. 106)
Where is the prison cell?
Both Harun and Meursault do not believe in this, which is critical to most societies
What is religion?
Mama and Maman do this for comfort
What is read a newspaper article?
"It used to be painful, but I've become used to it now." (page 92)
Who is the unnamed Indian?
Before France, these previous two nations controlled Algeria
What are Spain and the Ottoman Empire?
"The [location] told us nothing, and Mama remained motionless...like someone bending over a grave. Finally she stood up straight, looked attentively right and left, and said in a hoarse voice, 'God's curse be upon you!'" (pg. 46)
Where is the sea?
Harun's father had this profession
What is a watchman?
A witness to a murder
Who are the sun and the lemon tree
"Was it before or after?" (Page 109)
The Officer (colonel)
These Algerian resistance fighters fought the French for independence
Who are the Djounoud?
Huran sat here, "waiting for condolences no one was going to offer."
Where is the bar?
This is the punishment which allows Harun to lose the feeling of guilt after shooting the Frenchman
What is nothing?