An Algerian army officer who questions Harun about murdering Joseph but never punishes him. The officer is extremely devoted to the cause of Algerian liberation, and he’s both disappointed in and suspicious of Harun’s decision not to join the army as most other young men have. He explains that Harun has only been arrested for killing a Frenchman outside the context of the war effort, rather than under the auspices of the army, a distinction which Harun views as specious and absurd.
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Chapter 11
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He started stammering, declaring that killing and making war were not the same thing, that we weren’t murderers but liberators, that nobody had given me orders to kill that Frenchman, and that I should have done it before.
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The Officer Quotes in The Meursault Investigation
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Chapter 11
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He started stammering, declaring that killing and making war were not the same thing, that we weren’t murderers but liberators, that nobody had given me orders to kill that Frenchman, and that I should have done it before.
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