Chapter 4 - In the kingdom of fools
Summary of Moments Chapter 4 - In the Kingdom of Fools
The Kingdom Fools Class 9 English moment Chapter 4 is a Kannada folktale taken from the ''Folk Tales from India” book by A. K. Ramanujan. The story revolves around a place ruled by a foolish king and his stupid ministers. The king and ministers can be judged to be fools because of the strange and illogical orders they give to the people of the kingdom.
A guru ji and his disciple one day visited the kingdom of fools. They were surprised by the routine of the people who slept during the day and worked at night. The guru ji also found the price of all things in the market exactly the same, but his disciple found this to be very amusing.
Soon the guru ji decided to leave this strange kingdom where no good could happen under such administration. However, the disciple decided to ignore guru ji's advice and stayed back in the kingdom because of his greed. Being a person who loved food, he could find the most delicious food at very low prices. This made the disciple a fat man.
Eventually, the disciple got in danger because of the faulty government and begged for guru ji's help:
One day a thief decided to rob a merchant’s house. Unfortunately, the wall through which he made a hole, collapsed and fell over his head. He died at that instant. This made the thief’s brother complain to the king. The king called upon the merchant who ended up blaming the bricklayer for the faulty wall. When the bricklayer was called upon, he blamed it on the girl who was distracting him by dancing around with her jingling anklet. The girl then blamed the goldsmith as he had delayed her work, making her walk around. When the king questioned the goldsmith, he said that it was because he was busy with some rich merchant’s work. Ironically it turned out to be so that the rich merchant was the one who was initially blamed.
The king decided that it was ultimately the merchant’s fault and he needed to be hanged. When the king tried to execute him, he turned out to be too thin to fit the execution stake. Now, the king was perplexed. He ordered to look for someone who would fit the stake, and this unfortunately happened to be the guruji’s disciple.
The disciple was very scared and called his guruji for help. The guruji arrived and whispered something in the disciple’s ears. He then requested that he be executed instead of the disciple. The disciple then said that it should be him who was executed as he was on the stake first. Confused, the king was asked to resolve the conflict. It was then that the disciple mentioned that whoever was executed on that stake first would become the king of the kingdom in the next life. The one executed next would become the minister. The king and the minister look at each other and make a plan.
They did not want to lose the kingdom to these people in their next life. They quietly went to the prison during the night and released the two of them. The king and the minister then disguised themselves as the guruji and the disciple and faced execution the next day.
After the two were executed, the guruji and his disciple were crowned as king and minister. The guruji then changed all the rules of the kingdom and made them sensible. All in the kingdom then lived happily.
At the end of English Moments Class 9 Chapter 4, the guru ji defeated the foolish king and the stupid ministers with his intelligence. The people of the kingdom made guru ji and his disciple in charge of the governance of the kingdom. The Guru ji agreed to take this offer on one condition which was to discard all orders set by the previous ruler and the people happily obliged.
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