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Examples Of Who Would Have Won The Competition In The Summoner's Tale

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Throughout our world, thousands of stories have been published. Arguably, one of the most memorable stories was published during the month of April in 1387. On this day, 29 strangers were challenged to create stories during the trip to and back from Canterbury. Once everyone finally made the trip and arrived where it all started (Tabard Inn), a winner would be announced. Sadly, the author died before a winner could be announced. Easily the most popular question involved with these stories is “Who would have won the competition?”. And while there is no true answer, the best contender is easily The Summoner’s Tale. The Summoner's Tale should have won the competition due to covering controversial topics like corruption and hypocrisy while adding …show more content…

They are the men who the church chooses to be represented by by having them go around the public asking for donations for the church. The friar of this story does the complete opposite. While his intentions are meant to be focused on the church, his intentions are clearly focused on personal gain and pleasure. The contrast between the two devotions is an obvious example of hypocrisy. To add onto the painful hypocrisy, the friar is also constantly complaining about the followers giving all their money to other churches while simultaneously asking the followers to give the friars church all of their money. The friar tries to gaslight people into thinking that their sins are unforgivable unless they donate to the church. Take the main victim as an example. The victim's name is Thomas. Thomas is a sick man who has given countless paychecks to the church (or so he thought). Despite Thomas giving money to the church, the friar still isn't satisfied. The friar explains that Thomas’s disease is “ from our having received too little” (192). This statement is beyond disgusting. Telling a sick man that he is only sick because the church hasn't received enough of his money is downright

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