The Stranger

AP English Literature Homework:
(1) Read The Stranger Chapters two and three answer the following:
Chapter 2
1. Find another incident, event, thought or action that reveals Mersualt's detachment from his mother's death.
2. Who is Marie Cardona?
3. What type of movie do Marie and Mersault see? How is this choice odd, considering what has happened to Mersault?
4. What "routine" do Sundays interrupt for Mersualt?
5. Why does Mersualt no eat at Celeste's?
Chapter 3
6. What does Monday represent for Meursault? and does Mersault's employer treat him upon his return back to work?
7. How is Meursault's reaction to Celeste awkward for us, but in line with Meursault's character?
8. Describe the other tenants in Meursault's building including Emmanuel; Raymond Sintes; and Old Man Salamano.
Read: The Myth of Sisphysus (google it--read the actual myth; not the essay.
Read "The Myth of Sisphysus" by Alber Camus (The essay given you in class on Thursday). Be prepared for reading quiz on the actual myth of Sisyphus and connections to the essay by Camus and Chapters 2-3 of The Stranger.