By: Rachel Eckles, Nick Ross, Evan
Poska, Shane Rause,
Brooke Zitkovich

● The Pardoner is defined as someone who accept money to give forgiveness from god, to repent their sins.
● The Pardoner will tell his “client” to explain their sins, he would then give have them sign a piece of paper or pray to an object and they would be forgiven of their sin
● But, the pardoner tells the “clients” secrets to everyone, so the pardoner lies about keeping a secret and accepts the money after lying about being able to grant a pardon
● Who is the pardoner

● The pardoners tale begins with the pardoner explaining why alcohol is dangerous and entices men to do things they wouldn't dare to do sober
● The Pardoner explains how once a man drank so much he raped both of his daughters

The pardoner introduces himself explaining his views on the sin of alcohol and greed. He explains that alcohol can make men do the unthinkable and greed is a drug itself. His story concerns three young men who spend much of their time in revelry.
The tale is set in Flanders, and the Pardoner during the telling of the tale, tends to drift from the plot
On this particular day as the three men drink and gamble, they hear a funeral passing outside the Inn. They ask a servant who has died.
He responds by saying that it is a friend of the three men who was stabbed in the back by a thief called Death. He has killed many in the neighborhood recently. The three drunken men decide to find this thief, so they travelled to the next town in search of this thief.
On the way they meet an extremely old man dressed in rags. He explains that he has been cursed to wander the earth until he can find a youth who will change places with him. He goes on to say that not even Death will take his life. The three men ask the old man if he has seen Death, and he responds that he was last seen under the tree at the end of the lane.
The three men go and find bags of gold beneath the tree and they decide to keep this for themselves. It would be too dangerous to move the gold in daytime so they will wait for nightfall. They draw straws to see who will go into town to get food, and the youngest is given this task. When he has gone, the two that are left, decide that they will murder him when he returns and keep the gold for themselves.
The youngest of the three decides to poison the food he brings to the other two and keep the gold for himself.
The youngest is stabbed, and the other two are poisoned.

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● the Pardoner is a bit dubious; Pardoners offer indulgences, previously written pardons to particular sins, to people who repented of the sin they committed
● along with the indulgence, they would have to make a donation to the church through the Pardoner
● soon enough this “charitable” donation became a necessary part of receiving an indulgence
● the Pardoner was not supposed to pocket any of the money, and was paid by the church to offer the indulgences
● it started to look like one could cleanse themselves by simply paying off the church
● in this tale, the Pardoner tells a group of penitents how he gulls people into indulging his own wealth through a sermon he preached on greed, and then proceeds to tell a tale that exemplifies the wicked behavior publically declared in his sermon

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● The pardoner explains that there is evil in gambling and alcohol.
● he states that men do the unthinkable when influenced by gambling and alcohol.
● He also states that greed can be just as devastating as alcohol and gambling