Plot
The way Meursault finds out about his mother's death
What is a telegram
Meursault is offered a job in this city
What is Paris
Cause of Albert Camus's death
What is a car crash.
"I'd smack her around a little bit, but nice-like, you might say."
Who is Raymond
An idea emphasizing that humans have the freedom and responsibility to create their own lives
What is existentialism
The city and/or country the novel takes place in
What is Algiers, Algeria
Meursault's final wish before he is executed
What is for there to be a crowd.
Famous prize Camus wins in 1957
What is the Nobel Prize for Literature
"Maybe. Still, if you don't die soon, you'll die one day. And then the same question will arise. How will you face that terrible, final hour?"
Who is the chaplain
The belief that life is meaningless and beyond our control
What is absurdism
Meursault tells this to the police to help Raymond get out of trouble
What is that Raymond's girlfriend was cheating on him. The cops gave him a warning.
Meursault's response to Marie when she first asks him if he loves her
What is "I said that sort of question had no meaning, really; but I supposed I didn't."
War that Camus's father died in?
What is WWI
"Let's hope the dogs won't bark again tonight. I always think it's mine I hear..."
Who is Salamano
Famous first line of the novel
What is "Maman died yesterday"
Meursault knows this one thing about his father
What is he once went to an execution and threw up afterwards.
The number of times Meursault shoots the man at the beach
What is five times
War that Camus participates in under the French Resistance
What is WWII
"Never in all my experience have I known a soul so case-hardened as yours."
Who is the examining magistrate
Everyone seems most preoccupied with this irrelevant-to-the-case fact during the trial
What is Meursault's lack of emotion at his mother's funeral
Meursault's sentence at the end of the trial
What is death by guillotine. Beheaded in a public square in the name of the French people.
The chaplain tries to convince Meursault to do this
What is find God or follow a religion
Political party Camus was involved with in his early years but opposed shortly after and spoke against after WWII
What is the Communist Party.
That's all for today, Monsieur Anti-Christ
Who is the magistrate
Choice is inescapable for this reason
Even the refusal to choose is a choice