In class writing:
How is Meursault both an insider and an outsider? Make sure you address his relationship to his own trial.

Being an Outsider:
His case is not sensational
Murder of an Arab: Camus exposes the racism of colonial culture, as the case doesn't register as being significant; perhaps it is even commonplace.
M. doesn't have much opportunity to speak
Lawyer assumes that M. will make his own case worse than it is.
He has lost control of his own destiny; he had more autonomy before jail
He is part of the French colonial minority in Algeria
He refuses to find his own lawyer--one is appointed to him. he lacks agency.
He is a criminal and is where he belongs
Meursault is driven to the courthouse and is interested in the trial process.  At first, he doesn't recognize individuals, but then he acknowledges the people who had been part of his life.
The mood of the trial is jovial
The lawyer assumes first person when speaking of M.'s crime

Deviation:
Upsets expectations (refuses a cigarette, refuses a priest)
Refuses any significant emotional engagement (mourning issue)
He refuses the notion of the hereafter.
He dismantles the priest's argument about salvation

Being Insider:
He follows the trial carefully, what is said; he is aware of the consequences of his actions and he recognizes what is a good argument and what is a poor one.

He is part of the French colonial culture; He is also part of the French colonial justice system, although it works against him.

Rhetorical terms
pathos--appeal to emotion
M. is a cold blooded murderer who is morally guilty of killing his mother
logos--appeal to reason or logic
The murder accords with a pattern of deviance
ethos--appeal to credibility
The prosecutor's experience versus the Lawyer's wild gesticulations
M. is a hard working citizen with no previous criminal record