Events
This is the first major event that frames Meursault’s emotional detachment and sets the novel in motion.
What is his mother’s funeral?
The relationship between Marie and Meursault before the shooting.
What is a relationship of non-engaged girlfriend and boyfriend?
The places Algeria and Algiers are.
What are a Contry and a city?
During the trial, this moment from the day after the funeral is used to suggest Meursault’s lack of morality.
What is going swimming and starting a relationship with Marie (or watching a comedy film)?
After helping Raymond, Meursault becomes involved in a conflict with these men.
Who are the Arabs?
This name is carried by Salamano’s dog.
What is a curse?
There Marie and Meursault first met.
Where is Meursault’s work office?
This small but damning habit of Meursault at the vigil is brought up to suggest disrespect for his mother.
What is drinking coffee and smoking?
After firing the first shot, Meursault performs this additional action.
What is firing four more shots into the body after a slight pause?
The feeling Meursault felt at the funeral.
What is the feeling of nothing?
This long it takes to travel to "old people's home".
How long are 2 hours?
The prosecutor portrays Meursault as morally guilty by linking him to this unrelated crime.
What is Raymond’s abuse of his mistress?
The murder is influenced heavily by this physical condition.
What is the sun (or heat)?
Those in whose name the sentence is served.
Who are the French people?
There Salamano lost his dog.
What is a fair or the Parade Ground?
This religious figure visits Meursault in prison, urging him to turn to God before his execution.
What is the chaplain?
According to Meursault, Arabs were able to track them after they changed routes because they had noticed this distinctive item.
What is a beach bag?
Those 7 characters who have testified in the court.
Who are Meursault, warden of the Home, Home's doorkeeper, Thomas Perez, Celeste, Marie, Masson, Salamano, Raymond.
That is how Arabs traced Raymond to the beach, according to Meursault.
What is the way of noticing of an oilcloth bathing bag at a bus stop?
This exact location where Meursault first encounters Marie after the funeral is mentioned in court.
What is the public swimming pool?