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**//Name://** Bartleby Travis McMullin III //**Age:**// 28 **//Gender://** Male //**Marital status:**// Divorced -engaged to someone else //**Location:**// Venice, Italy //**Religion:**// Catholic //**Role in feudal society:**// Middle Class //**Reason:**// I chose a jester because they are funny //**Activities:**// knowing he's doing a good job **//Interests://** Making the King laugh **//Education level://** 7 years //**Occupation:**// To amuse the King
 * __About my Jester__**

__//** A Day In The Life Of Bartleby The Jester **//__ -B. McMullin, July 7, 1321

I wake up at 7:00 to prepare my jokes for a performance at 10:00 so I prepare until 8:30, get dressed in my jester outfit, have porridge or soup for breakfast 'til 9:30, go over my jokes and get escorted to King Zach. I would start out with my jokes. Then Prince Zack would request a trick for me to do. Most of the time he tells me to do juggling because I always mess up. After that he's all cracked up and it's 11:30. So I’m headed to the table to have lunch with the royal people. I steal some of the king's food which he doesn’t notice, but if he does, it either makes him laugh or makes him angry. When the king is angry at one of my jokes, he might kill me. Obviously, that's never happened. Anyways, lunch is over and it's 12:00 so I prepare for my nightly performance. At my nightly performance, everyone in the royal family is there. It's were I do my dangerous tricks. My nightly performance is at 7:00 so I prepare until 4:00 and then practice until 7:00. Now I’m headed to the royal court. Everyone (even the knights) is there. To start out i take some torches and light them on fire. Then under pressure, I juggle. Every time I’m under pressure, I succeed. Now that that's over I move on to my next trick, rolling (walking) on top of a ball. I’m done that, now I’m done my performance, have dinner with the king, receive my pay, and it's off to bed at 8:00. Tomorrow I wake up and do the same.

**//__ I wish I were a peasant... __//** - B. McMullin, July 20, 1321 I wish I were a peasant. I like my job, but, it can get a little boring. The advantages of my job are that I live with the king; he pays for all my needs, and gives me a place to live. But there are disadvantages. I spend half of my day preparing jokes and tricks, the king messes up my name and calls me ''Barry", I sleep in a dungeon, and don't get that great of food. The rights of being a jester are that you can live with the king, and you can do anything you want, as long as it makes the king laugh. A jester like me has the responsibility to think of jokes to present to the king as a performance. The advantages of being a peasant are that you have protection from the knights; you get to roam the manor freely, have any job you like, and if you were me, see your family. There are also disadvantages to being a peasant. you'd have to live in a cold, damp, dark house and share it with many other families, you'd not have that great of clothes, and work all day, and the only thing you'd do besides work, is sleep. The rights of a peasant are that you get live on the manor (from the lords), a right to have protection (from the knights), and have the right to get food. The responsibilities of a peasant are the responsibility of working, taking care of your family, and to give some of your money from working to the lords.

__//** The Modern Day Knight **//__ -T. Foresta, February 14, 2011 The qualities of a jester are that he must be funny and amusing. he must serve the king by making him laugh. the jester is a high role in feudal society because if he makes the king laugh that makes the king like him. Other qualities of a jester are that they have to be quick witted, or smart. They cannot tell a bad or hurtful joke to their king or they will be executed (killed). Jesters are in the vassal class in feudal society and most of them work for kings. A modern day jester like Barry (Bartleby) to me would be Seth. Seth is the creator of Family Guy, American Dad, and the Cleveland Show. One big quality that is the same with Seth and Barry are that they both are very funny. Other qualities are that they both act kind of dumb and they perform acts. I think Seth is funnier than Barry because his jokes are most up to date and probably make more sense. But Barry has more pressure. He only has a couple of hours to prepare jokes or he will get executed while Seth has a little more than a week and won't get killed either way. Also, Seth doesn't show himself that much because he voices characters. One big difference is that Barry does tricks and Seth does not. That's who i think the modern day jester would be.