THE CHAPLAIN
The number of times that Meursault has refused to see the chaplain (priest) by the start of Pt. 2 Ch. 5
What is three?
Ch4:
Meursault blames this for his actions on the day that he killed the Arab man
What is the sun?
In his cell, Meursault watches this happen
What is day turn into night?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! (2x points)
The idea that Meursault is forced to confront while awaiting his fate
What is his appeal (and its denial or approval)?
PHILOSOPHY:
Camus wrote an essay based on this Ancient Greek story of a man condemned by the gods to push a boulder up a hill for eternity
What is the Myth of Sisyphus?
The item of clothing grabbed by Meursault when he assaults the chaplain
What is a cassock?
What is remorse?
In his new cell, Meursault can see the sky if he is positioned on what object?
What is his bunk (bed)?
Whether now or in twenty years, Meursault believes that this outcome is always inevitable
What is death?
BIOGRAPHY:
Albert Camus died in this (absurdist) way
What is a car accident/crash?
The chaplain uses this adjective to describe Meursault's heart when saying that he is on Meursault's side
What is blind?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! (2x points)
Upon accepting the denial of his appeal, Meursault could finally give himself permission to focus on this possibility
What is being pardoned?
What is an execution?
On the day of his execution, Meursault hopes to be met with these from a large crowd of spectators
What are cries of hate?
SCIENCE:
The temperature of the Sun's core, it's hottest part (to the nearest million °F)
What is 27 million °F?
The nickname for Meursault used by the chaplain when speaking to him
What is "my friend"?
Ch4:
Meursault's lawyer rejects the opportunity to take this action, fearing it would "antagonize the jury"
What is file a motion to dismiss the (unfavorable) verdict?
While in his cell, the chaplain tells Meursault that these "sweat with suffering"
What are the stones (of his cell wall)?
What is dawn?
HISTORY:
This was the year of the last execution by guillotine
What is 1977?
Meursault says that the world is filled with this, regardless of what the chaplain believes about condemnation
What are privileged people?
Meursault says that these only became "real" and "serious" after his verdict was read
What are consequences?
After the chaplain speaks of prisoners seeing "a divine face [emerge] from the darkness" of the prison walls, Meursault claims to see this emerge from his own cell walls
What is nothing?
What Meursault believes "really counted" when thinking about the "machinery of justice"
What is the possibility of escape?
GEOGRAPHY:
As of 2024, the total population of Algeria was this many people (to the nearest million)
What is 47 million people? (actual: 46,814,258)