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Transcript of Irony in "The Pardoner's Tale" Pardoners sold pardons—official documents from Rome that pardoned a person's sins. The Pardoner in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is dishonest. The Pardoner often preaches about how money is the root of all evil
Explanation:
, Jack is not able to kill the pig because killing is not something well bred and civilized people do, even young, impetuous boys. Jack is not hungry enough, desperate enough, or bloodthirsty enough to do it in the first chapter of the novel.