"See How Easy It Is to Fool A King"

     One Sunday at the church in Santo Domingo, a Friar named Antonio de Montesinos gave a sermon. His sermon was about the cruelty and abuse that the Tainos had suffered. He brought up points such as that they were in danger of going to hell and that they were going against the bible. After giving his sermon, he walked out with his head held high back to the house of the Dominican Friars. The men in the church who listened to his sermon were mad about what he had said and followed him back to the house so they could demand he take back what he said. When they got there, a different Friar opened the door and at first did not let them through, but then allowed them to pass. The men told Friar Montesinos that his sermon was a scandal and an insult to their whole way of life. They demanded that he take back what he said, or they would, "take action against him." The other Friar said that it wouldn't make any difference to them, and they were not the ones in danger of going to hell. The Friar agreed to give another sermon next week, but said the same thing as the last one. The men were very mad and rote a letter to the king saying what he said and how he insulted him. The king ordered the head of the Dominicans in Spain to come to him. The last line of this story was, "You see how easy it is to fool a king..."
     What I first believed that the last line of this story meant was that the Friar's tricked the King into sending them back to Spain. As it was said in the story, the Friars only had  "rough clothes" and a blanket. If they were to do something that they knew would make the people of the town upset, the Friars knew that they would be sent back to Spain. There, they would have more wealth and happiness.
      Another meaning of the line, "You see how easy it is to fool a king" is that nothing could have happened to the Friars. They were only doing what was right and couldn't have been punished in any way.  They were the ones who would end up going to heaven, whereas the people who believed that the sermon the Friar gave was an insult, would be going to hell. Since nothing bad could have happened to the Friars, they decided to give their sermon and be truthful to what they believed. I liked the ending of this story because it made me think a lot about it. There are many different ways to interpret the last line, and I think it was clever of the author to leave it brief.