The Stranger Part III

In the ongoing chapters, Mersault was arrested for killing an Arab on the beach. But strangely for Mersault it wasn't a big of a problem, for him it wasn't strange but he just reminded the scenes from different movies where someone is interrogated and it wasn't like that either. For me Mersault is brutaly honest! When he is asked by his lawyer, which he didn't thought he needed because his case seemed to him "simple," if he felt sad because of his mother's death, he was caught by surprise. For us it may seem strange that he had felt that way, but he was just direct and honest and justified that his feelings are often impacted by his physical condition; since that day of his mother's death he lacked sleep and was tired. Even later on when he was in a cell full of Arabs and was asked what had he done, he said directly that he had killed an Arab!! Later on, when he was interrogated at the examining magistrate office, he was asked if he believed in God, and also the question that even Mersault couldn't answer: Why did he pause between the first and the second shot!? Mersault was reminded of that hot day on the beach and couldn't find an answer. He was even asked if he regretted what he had done, but he said that it was much less of regret than a kind of vexation..

The days went on, the weeks went on, the months. Mersault even felt that he didn't suffer in the prison as much as the others, what he lacked was women, cigarettes but he realized that those were a part of his punishment. He spend much of his time asleep, or talking with himself, or looking around his cell and observing every little detail. I guess when you have that much of a "free time," that is exactly what you may do, just sit and watch around. When Marie visits him, he even couldn't concentrate totally on her, of course after he looked at her from head to toe, thinking how pretty she looked. Even this time he blamed the sun ( light) because his cell was dark and now the room where he was was light and he felt dizzy.
When the day of his trial started it was a sunny day.He was assured by his lawyer that his case wouldn't last long because there were more important cases than his. When Mersault entered the court room, there was a great crowd. Even Marie, Raymond, Salamano, Celeste, door keeper from the Home were there. He was feeling nervous, and for the first time there are clear signs of emotional expression from Mersault, because he felt that everyone in the court room hated him, and he felt the urge to cry. You see, he is not emotionless after all. He just expresses his emotions in a different way, an honest way.
He was accused for insensitivity because of his mother's death, since it was "highly relevant to his case," because they couldn't understand how he could go and watch a comedic movie a day after his mother died. Marie said: You cannot understand. It is not like that. From this we can see that Marie knew Mersault in another way that the entire court room did. She tried to "defend" Mersault as much as she could, even Celeste from the restaurant, because he was harshly accused for barring  After a while his lawyer said if this was the case of the crime that Mersault committed, or the case of the MOTHER's death. From this part of the chapters, we can see that often times when people judge you they base their opinion on only the "bad" things, as in the case of Mersault; where everyone shaped their opinions based on how he acted on the day of his mother's death.
On the way to his cell, Mersault thought that how a road may lead towards two different paths. Because once he passed that same road with content and freedom, and now he was heading towards a cell where a night of easy, dreamless sleep awaits for him.