In his prison cell, Meursault denies the chaplain 3 times. He wishes he had paid out extra awareness to executions in order that he could think of 1 chance wherever the legal had escaped the inevitability of your course of action. He finds the absoluteness of your condition being arrogant. He remembers Maman's story of his father likely to an execution and now understands why. He wishes that he could visit all of the executions any more. This would like is simply too agonizing however due to the fact there is certainly this kind of minimal prospect of his flexibility. He imagines new penal codes which might enable the condemned to have one particular possibility in 10 of escaping his fate. He realizes that his concept of your guillotine has generally been skewed. The 2 matters he thinks about most however are dawn and his attraction. Meursault understands that the executioners would occur proper prior to dawn so he waits up each night time. While he understands absolutely everyone will die, the considered of his attraction is maddening. He need to encourage himself of its impossibility to be able to introduce to himself the possibility of a pardon, which when faced rationally, provides him an hour of calm.