The Stranger (Part IV and V)

Part IV of this book talks more about judging part of Meursaultin the court and the final verdict that has to be pronounced in the end of the session. It is interesting that the whole speech of the prosecutor was concentrated rather in the personal life and and personality of Meursault than in his crime, which in my opinion is much more important.Prosecutor mentioned several "facts" which seemed to me really irrelevant to his crime that tells the personality and nature of Meursault as a criminal and unconscious man. Prosecutor mentioned his heartlessness, in funeral of his mother where he wasn't able to state the age of her, and didn't weep. I guess his aim was to say that if he doesn't show any emotion toward his mother, he should, as well, be emotionless toward others, and  be a threat to a society. Prosecutor continued to speak the story of the crime and how Meursault shot for more times afters firs one, on the Arab's body to make sure that he is dead. H said that Meursault was fully aware of what he was doing because he was an educated and intelligent man. All what he was trying to emphasize is that it was not a sudden impulse of reaction but a fully aware decision for the crime, which in reality was not real. In this position Meursault wasn't able to explain to the court that how his crime was committed with no intention and was because the sun and the sudden impulse from the fear. Meursault wished he could explain to them in a friendly way that moment, with sincerity, but his position as a "criminal" prevented him from such explanation. Meursault admitted that the prosecutor was much more convincing and had more talent than his lawyer, and he realized that his fate has to be decided by others and doesn't have the ability to do much about the final decision. Thus, he was thinking just to go as soon as possible to the jail's cell to sleep and do nothing else. In the end of the session he has been asked to say the last words, and he said that he really had no intention ti kill the Arab. Regardless his point, while he saw for the firs time Marie in the court the verdict was read and he has to be decapitated in front of crowd of people.Therefore, he was moved to new cell, which was with the view to the sky. There, most of the time he laid to his back and watched the moving clouds of the sky. He tried to find a peace with his mind, relax and just think. He was thinking mainly about 2 things: the dawn and the appeal.Meursault refused to several times to see the chaplain but in the end he saw him but in the beginning refused to talk to him. He doesn't want to spend time talking with the chaplain about why he don't believe in God, but chaplain understood him and even cry for him. Chaplain said to Meursault that he is going to pray for him. Therefore, he felt a feeling of relief for a moment and asked him to leave.Meursault continued to think about the phenomenon of death and trying to convince himself that this course of dying will never stop, and it doesn't matter if you are going to die now or after forty years, what matters is that you are going to die either way.