Robbie+Sandhu

 “The Jesters Tale” Robbie Sandhu When a good Jester paraded the streets, the jester looked around and bought some beets, he has a keen eye for some fine harlots, he searches and looks and finds Mrs. Charlot. That day and night his eager fancies ran, after a day filled with glee, he met a man, they talked and talked until they can say no more, the man asked about the night before, the jester replied ‘I must go now’. On his way to the castle he passed a cow, for some reason he kicked the cow and ran, karma came back and he tripped over a can. Flat on his ogre looking face he fell[i] , he woke up in a carriage with a bell, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the jester demanded to be let free <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">out of the locked iron chains but ‘no’ said she. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The woman stopped and hit him in the head <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">causing the jester to pass out, not in bed. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">On the next morning when the day was full, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the jester awakened to the smell of bull, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the fowl smelling place he was in <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">was a farm, he sat up and sat on a pin, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">he took a glance around and two people, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">and as he was looking he saw a steeple. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He tried to stand up but he was bound by <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">a chain and the people said ‘o my my’. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He yelled as loud as a little toddler, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">but then the leader of the group Mrs. Hoddler <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">came out, and she said ‘quiet you pest’, in <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">a devilish voice<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[ii]. ‘//She was full of sin’//, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the jester thought, the jester complied <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">and the jester looked at her and sighed, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">she told him that ‘the king is getting rid <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">of all the jesters in our kingdom amid’, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">and in a blustering voice he chose to say<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[iii] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">‘If this horrific news is true can I stay <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">here where I am safe from the ruthless king, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">who loves to hear my beautiful voice sing’. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Hoddler had agreed with no doubt, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">but she then asked willingly ‘why did you pout?’ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the jester replied, ‘upon my capture <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I thought I was dead and thought of rapture’. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Hoddler laughed hysterically that night, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">after they were done talking they grabbed a bite, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">it was a beautiful site to view, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the jester, still locked up, waiting for a queue <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">to be released from the iron chain, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">he waited, worried, and watched as he was sane. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Hoddler’s people unlocked he<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[iv]. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Alas! The jester was finally free, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">with his freedom he roamed around the farm, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the jester, outside of the barn caused no alarm, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">everyone who once seemed as threats to him, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">were as friendly as his old friend named Tim<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[v]. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Days, sunrises, sunsets, some<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[vi] weeks<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[vii] went by, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">as if time had a mind of its own. Pie <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">was the last thing the jester had eaten, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">after days of laughing with Mr. Meaten; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Hoddler’s husband. Forthcoming, tragedy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">struck disrupting the peace, her majesty <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">had finally found the only jester left. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">On a day where the sovereign land had no theft<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[viii] , <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">her majesty came riding into the farm <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">on a white horse with the intent of harm, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">as if the she wants the whole world to stand <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">still and watch as she gives motion to her hand <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">to signal the start of something massive<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[ix]. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">As she entered the farm, Mrs. Hoddler was passive, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Her majesty told her that she has heard <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">rumors that a jester is here, ‘that’s absurd’, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Hoddler replied and as they argued <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Her majesty signaled her guards named pargued <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">to take the head of the filthy performer, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">but Mrs. Hoddler castigated her, as an informer, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">to tell her that she is wrong in doing this, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">but her Majesty handled her with bliss. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Her Majesty mocking Mrs. Hoddler the whole time, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">but Mrs. Hoddler fought back with a lime! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Furious with Mrs. Hoddler’s course of action, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">she orders guards to cut her head off as a reaction<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[x]. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mr. Meaten shrieks in agony and pain, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">he just watched his wife get horrifically slain. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Where is the jester you may ask yourself, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">he is watching a far behind a shelf, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the terrified jester shaking in fear and sweat, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">decides to take action but walks into a net, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the jester and her majesty have now met. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">After giving away his location, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mr. Meaten is filled with frustration. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Both are strongly forced to kneel in front of <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">her Majesty and Mr. Meaten tries to shove <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">the guards away but he cannot, he is <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">frail as a branch on an apple tree, tiz <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">is why he cannot do anything in this <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">situation so he begins to reminiscence<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[xi]. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">As for the jester, he sits there, devising <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">a plan to get to safety, which is arising. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Her majesty begins to speak to them, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">‘Your time has come, no need to condemn’. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">As she is speaking Mr. Meaten cuts <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">her off and tries to stay calm but goes nuts. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He tries to run as fast as he can, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">but is caught by her Majesty’s men.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He then is greeted with an arrow to the head. The Jester jumps up in terror and grabs her Majesty as hostage and by mistake the guard shoots an arrow, which lands straight into her head. There is not much more to be said except for the Jester throws the lingering cold body and runs. Somehow he dodges every arrow but then trips over a dead sparrow. If the Jester was not so clumsy maybe he could have made it out alive, but all that could be said is he tried to survive.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[i] Imagery <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[ii] Symbolism <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[iii] Polysyndeton <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[iv] Variation in Sentence Length <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[v] Periodic Sentence <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[vi] Asyndeton <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[vii] Alliteration <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[viii] Symbolism <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[ix] Extended Metaphor <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[x] Litote <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[xi] Chiasmus