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Why Did Crispin Run

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What would you do if a fierce tyrant came at you swinging his sword savagely? When Crispin’s mother died, he and the priest quietly held a funeral for her.at the funeral John Aycliffe, the steward, demanded Crispin’s ox as a death tax, as a way to cope with all of the sadness in his life he ran into the forest. He was eavesdropping on a conversation in the forest between a mysterious figure and John aycliffe when they spotted him John aycliffe hastily drew his sword to smite Crispin but he missed and only succeeded in setting Crispin free from the brambles which entangled him. Everyone knows that after being set free Crispin’s best interests would be to escape but some people think that he still should not have ran, while others believe that Crispin should have turned tail and gotten out of that horrible place. I know as a fact that Crispin should have run from John aycliffe and I have collected three reasons …show more content…

He met a man by the name of bear who became his first friend and taught him a trade that could earn him money. He got to hold his first money after performing for a crowd which made him feel more grateful that he left stromford. This is my second reason that Crispin should have run from John aycliffe. For my final reason why Crispin should have run from John aycliffe is that he had absolutely no reason not to run from John. His life was horrible even before his mother died and after she died the mistreatment escalated exponentially. He had no family that he could have gone to live with, so when he ran he would have been all on his own. After his mother died he had to pay for her death with their ox, which meant that he had no means of supporting himself, so he did, what he felt was his only option which was to run away and start a new

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