Essay about A Knights Tale

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Watt (red head guy)

Times are tough. we are desperate. We have to do something. We have recently just won, that’s right, won a jousting championship. We won because we found Sir Ector dead under the tree after he took a nasty blow in his final joust. Sir Ector was in prime position to win his championship but unfortunately as I said he died under the tree. So William Thatcher not thinking got in Sir Ector’s armor and jousted in his place so if he won he could take the winnings, all he had to do was stay on his horse and he had won, he did so, so we all spilt the winnings which was very nice, but, William came up with this crazy idea that instead of splitting all the winnings we pay for him to get good training. So that he could go onto win bigger competitions and get bigger winnings that we could all split. For some un-known reason I agreed to it.
William began training a few weeks ago and is improving at a rapid pace. While travelling down a road, some random writer walked passed all of us, naked.
This writer ended up writing William and patence of nobility so William is now ‘Sir Ulrike’. This is a very key part of our ability to compete in competitions because if you do not have a patence of nobility you cannot compete.
‘Sir Ulrike’ has recently just completed his first joust and in a stunning act he won.
On his way to his sword fight, shortly after his joust, some evil, evil men intercepted him, wanting money from our writer. All this

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