The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Book 11, Chapter 2 summary

What happens

1. Quasimodo unknowingly helps Tristan l’Hermite search for the gypsy, then continues alone after the archers leave.
2. Finding her cell empty, he injures himself in despair and begins to suspect the archdeacon of taking her.
3. At dawn, he follows Claude Frollo up the north tower and traces his gaze toward the Place de Grève.
4. Quasimodo sees the gypsy hanged and watches the priest laugh at her suffering.
5. He pushes the priest over the balustrade and leaves him clinging to a gutter while he watches the gypsy and weeps.
6. The priest loses his grip and falls to the pavement; Quasimodo looks between both bodies and mourns those he loves.

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What to notice

Quasimodo speaks while looking between the hanging gypsy and the fallen priest. His grief joins the two people whose competing claims divide his heart.

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