1. Write down any questions, comments, observations you have about “The Myth of Sisyphus”

2. “The unexamined life is not worth living. - Plato

3. Tell me what you remember about “The Allegory of the Cave”

4. Write down – on your notes – what it is that you are looking forward to – in a bigger sense (ie college, summer, etc.)

5. Now – tell me what the myth of Sisyphus (the myth not the essay). Why was he condemned? What did he have to do?

5b . Let’s break his punishment down into 3 parts – what are they? No don’t raise you hands…

Pushing the Rock up the Hill no memory

Triumph! a glimpse, a gleam

Defeat – return to the base memory

6. Albert Camus: “There is in me an invincible summer.” What do you think this means? Why? remember this when reading Stuart Little and his canoe…

What is it you looked forward to freshman year? 8th grade? 6th grade? 1st grade?

8. For Camus what is the moment Of Sisyphus’s triumph?

The moment of contemplation… Why? What about Oedipus? Why and When?

Going back to #7 – what happened at each of those times In your life?

What will happen the next time? Is that a bad thing?

How are our lives like that of Sisyphus?

Therefore – where is our triumph? Are our entire lives commited To accomplishing nothing?

11. Do we? Do we contemplate?

Rambo’s Barber

12. What is it that Sisyphus Contemplates? The struggle? The joy in the struggle? “the wholly human security”

How often in our lives do we realize the impossible nature of our struggle...?

We are the sum of our deeds.

How do We put “death in chains?”

“the struggle itself towards the heights…”

15. Look at the books and Characters we’ve studied…

What has this class been, If not the contemplation Of our absurd, heroic, struggle?

World Literature – War & Struggle…

17. Listen – and follow along…