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IO#9 -Algerian Prison System

IO#9 -Algerian Prison System. Jeremy Beyon Christian Garcia Period 2 Mrs. Des Palmes-Madrigal. What is it?. Notorious Prison System Accused of Human Indecency Prisoners Die in Algerian Prison. Breakdown . Operated as a Separate Function Prisons go as far as French Rule

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IO#9 -Algerian Prison System

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  1. IO#9 -Algerian Prison System Jeremy Beyon Christian GarciaPeriod 2Mrs. Des Palmes-Madrigal

  2. What is it? • Notorious Prison System • Accused of Human Indecency • Prisoners Die in Algerian Prison

  3. Breakdown • Operated as a Separate Function • Prisons go as far as French Rule • Small Crime = Provincial Civil Prison

  4. Breakdown (Continue) • Serious Crime = Penitentiaries • Murder, Kidnap, Rape, Treason, Terrorism, and any Crimes against State

  5. Condition • Primitive Conditions, Crowded • Poor Sanitary Facilities • 61% Algerian Prisons Over 100 Years Old

  6. Condition (Continue) • 40,000 Prisoners Confined in Overcrowded Prisons • Saharan Prison forced with extreme heat

  7. SO WHAT !!! • Small understanding of Algerian Prison System allow readers to make more connections • Gives readers power to question Camus’s writing • Was Camus accurate? Did he exaggerate Algerian Prison? Did he underrate Algerian Prison?

  8. Cultural Elements • Novel Accurate to Algerian Prison • Murder Controversial (Arab biased or poor character?) • Prisoners Separated by Crime (taken to private cell later)

  9. Cultural Element (Continue) • Prison mostly Arab • French Algerian not common aka Meursault • Family Allowed ONLY for Civil Prison

  10. Cultural Element (Continue) • Assume Meursault in Penitentiaries • Meursault under poor conditions ex.) cell crammed with small window • Slept on a plain wooden plank for a bed

  11. Contextual Elements • Prisoners = Outcast • Meursault condemned for honesty about feelings • Considered an "stranger“

  12. Contextual Elements (Continue) • Refuses to lie • Doesn't play the game • Henceforth title The Stranger • "were still those of a free man" (Camus 76)

  13. Contextual Elements (Continue) • "Little by little I would have gotten used to it" (Camus 77) • "could easily live for a hundred years in prison" ( Camus 79) • "found the simplest and most lasting joys" (Camus 104).

  14. Contextual Elements (Continue) • Signal emerging self-awareness + self-consciousness • Growing to understand himself + his beliefs • Ironically becomes a better person in Prison

  15. QUESTIONS • Did Meursault break conformity in prison? • Did Meursault subscribe to a new belief in prison? • Has he accepted life’s absurdity? • Is Meursault free in Prison? Not physically, but mentally • Meursault thinks for himself in prison

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