The Stranger Part 2 - Chapter 4 PDF

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Part 2 - Chapter 4: Saturday, October 20, 2018

3:52 PM

• "Lawyer pleaded guilty, with an explanation" ○ "one thing bothered me a little… despite everything that was on my mind, I felt like intervening every now and then, but my lawyer kept telling me, 'just keep quiet- it won't do your case nay good.'" (pg. 98) ○ "there were times…I felt like breaking in… and saying, 'wait a minute! Who's the accused ehre? Being the accused counts for something. And I have something to say!' but on second thought, I didn’t have anything to say… I got bored very quickly with the prosecutor's speech. Only bits and pieces… caught my attention…" (pg. 98-99) • Narrator: "if I unerstood him correctly… my crime was premeditated" (pg. 99) ○ Prosecutor: "I will prove…in the blinding clarity of the facts and… in the dim light cast by the mind of this criminal soul" § "reminded court of my insensitivity… ignorance when aksed Maman's age… swim the next day - with a women… fernandel movie… taking marie home with me… kept saying 'his mistress'" (pg. 99) ○ To the prosecutor this whole thing was premediated that narrator took the gun knowing he was going to kill the Arab • Prosecutor about narrator: ○ Talks about his soul ○ "when the emptiness of a man's heart becomes… an abyss threatening to swallow up society" (pg. 101) ○ He didn’t have a soul and that nothing human was within his reach ○ How he had no emotions during procesutions

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○ He's priming jurors: "I suggest to you that the man who is seated in the dock is also guilty of the murder to be tried in this court tomorrow. He must be punished accordingly" (pg. 102) "all I remember is that while my lawyer went on talking, I could hear through the… chambers and courtrooms an ice cream vendor blowing his tin trumpet out in the street…memories of al ife that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer… part of town I loved… certain evening sky, mari'es dresses… the way she laughed." (pg. 104) "…I hadn't tried to cah Marie's eye once during the whole trial. I hadn't forgotten about her; I'd just had too much to do…" (pg. 105) Judges: ○ "guilty of murder" ○ Premeditated" ○ Extenuating circumastances" ○ Page 106 "when the door to the dock opened… I didn’t look in Marie's direction. I didn’t have time to, because the presiding judge told me… I was to have my head cut off in public square in the name of the French people" (pg. 107) "I wasn't thinking about anything anymore…presiding jduge asked…if I had naything to say" ○ "no" (pg. 107)...