Our Lady’s Juggler

by
Anatole France
 Compiegne

- A city of northern France on

the Oise River northeast of Paris.
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 PERPETUAL

-NEVER ENDING OR CHANGING.

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 PIOUS

-SHOWING LOYAL REVERENCE FOR A

PERSON OR A THING.
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 “
EDIFYING

-PROVIDING MORAL OR
INTELLECTUAL INSTRUCTIONS.
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 LAMENT

-A PASSIONATE EXPRESSION OF GRIEF

OR SORROW.
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 CHARACTER
BARNABA
-JUGGLER
-A NATIVE OF COMPIEGNE
 SETTING
-SET IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE
AGES.
 PLOT
-IN THE DAYS OF KING LOUIS THERE LIVED A POOR JUGGLER NAMED
BARNABAS.
-ONE DAY BARNABAS WAS FINDING SHELTER WHEN HE SAW A MONK
AND THEY FELL INTO A DEEP CONVERSATION.
-THE MONK INVITED HIM TO JOIN THE MONASTERY, UPON ENTERING
THE MONASTERY HE SAW HIS FELLOW MONKS SHOW THEIR SERVICES BY
USING THE SKILL THAT GOD HAS GIVEN THEM.
-AFTER SEEING THIS, BARNABAS FELL TO LAMENTING HIS IGNORANCE AND
SIMPLICITY.
-ONE DAY BARNABAS HEARD A STORY THAT THE MONKS WERE TALKING ABOUT.
HIS HEART BECAME FILLED WITH ZEAL.
-THE MONKS SAW HIM IN FRONT OF THE IMAGE OF THE HOLY VIRGIN
PERFORMING TRICKS WHICH HAD MADE HIM FAMOUS. THE MONKS DID NOT
UNDERSTAND THE ACT AND CRIED OUT IN DISGUST.
-BUT THEY STOPPED WHEN THEY SAW THE VIRGIN MARY WIPE THE JUGGLER’S
FOREHEAD.
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CONFLICT
-BARNABAS’ StrUGGLE AS A JUGGLER
-HIS STRUGGLE TO SHOW HIS DEVOTION
 THEME

-THOSE WHO ARE KINDEST AND

PUREST IN HEART SHALL SEE GOD
POINT OF VIEW

-THIRD PERSON
 Quiz
1. what is the juggler’s name?
2. where did he live?
3.-4. what did he juggle with?
5. how did he become a monk?
6. who is brother maurice?
7. who is brother alexander?
8. who is brother marbode?
9.-10. how did barnaba show his
devotion? And why did he do that?