The Arguers
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Who is the story’s narrator and what is the premise of “The Arguers”?
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Okay our friend. So today we are reading a story for you. For any of my friends out there. Who think to themselves
They're experts at arguing with people.
Oh yeah. Are you an expert at arguing with people? Do you love to correct other people? Do you like to tell people That they are right or wrong. All the time. Got a book for you. I hope that you enjoy it and we can all learn something from it. Today's story is called The Arguers. It was written by Koriana Lukin. And it is read today by mommy and Who are ya? What's your name?
Why do the first two characters argue over a brush versus a comb for the king’s beard?
Feel like. I'm just wanting I'm warning you right now.
Mm-hmm. You might argue with me about this book? Well, that's what this book is meant to do, I think. Are you ready? Ready to go for it? Okay, here we go. The first argument was over a brush. And a comb. Which would be better for taking a tangle out of the king's beard? And in the picture, we can see the king. He has a massive beard, probably the biggest beard I've ever seen a person have. It's like How Rapunzel's hair kinda goes all over the place. This is his beard. And so we can see one lady who has a brush and one lady who has a comb and they are fighting. with each other about which is best.
How does the tale explore the debate between cursive and plain lettering for the princess’s throne?
Next came the argument of letters: cursive or plain, large or small, and which ought to adorn the princess's newest throne. So in the picture we see how one of them has started writing the name of the princess. Princess and then the other person has taken over and started writing the rest of the word princess. But one of them is a beautiful, curly, lovely, cursive handwriting, and the other one is using Just plain. Text. Do you know how to write in cursive? It's a beautiful way to write. And I don't think many people are learning how to do it these days. So if you can learn how to do it, not only will you have your own special secret language that only certain people will know how to read, but The books and the stories and the documents that were written 200 years ago, you will be able to read and no one else will.
Because you will be able to read cursive. True story. Now, moving on. Then there was the argument of spoons, oval or round. Silver or gold, and which should be used when serving noodles to the Queen's hounds.
What arguments arise over spoons, their shape, and material when serving the queen’s hounds?
Yeah, like seven.
She does have a lot of dogs here. Facet hounds, it looks like.
Hum.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight tons. Soon they argued all the time. Until no one could remember when the arguing had started. Or over what? Or by whom? They only knew that they had always argued, and they did it very well. Very, very well. They could argue forward And backwards. Right side up and upside down. They argued in fog. And son? And sleep. And snow. And when they began to argue with the flowers, some said they had gone too. Too far. In the picture we can see a lady. And she's got a big beautiful pink rose bush in front of her, covered in lovely pink.
How does the story illustrate the kingdom’s endless arguing about everything—from fog to flowers?
Flowers. And behind her she has another rose bush. That is Covered in lovely. Yellow. buds. But the pink bush of pink roses has one yellow rose that is just in the wrong place. And so the lady's bending over it and yelling at it.
You are in the wrong place. You need to be over there. That's where all of the other yellow flowers are.
But most green. It was a great talent to be able to argue with a fence or a doorknob or the wind. To be able to argue even with the smallest of stones on the road. We can see a guy doing that. Why do you think that is a great talent? To y argue with something that can't argue back? That seems silly. And so it was that the king and queen decided to hold a contest, to choose once and for all, the best arguer in the land. For weeks they practiced. They argued faster and louder and more often than they had ever argued before.
Why do the king and queen organize a contest to find the best arguer in the land?
When the day of the contest arrived, the arguers gathered together in the centre of a clearing, in the centre of this capital city, where the judging was set to begin. But when the king announced Places, every one no one took their places. And when the Queen hollered Attention No one paid any attention, for they were too busy arguing already to hear the king and queen shout Begin.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is the story’s narrator and what is the premise of “The Arguers”?
0:01–1:01
2
Why do the first two characters argue over a brush versus a comb for the king’s beard?
1:01–1:53
3
How does the tale explore the debate between cursive and plain lettering for the princess’s throne?
1:53–3:21
4
What arguments arise over spoons, their shape, and material when serving the queen’s hounds?
3:21–4:36
5
How does the story illustrate the kingdom’s endless arguing about everything—from fog to flowers?
4:36–6:05
6
Why do the king and queen organize a contest to find the best arguer in the land?
6:05–7:54
7
What happens when lightning strikes the king’s massive beard during the contest?
7:54–9:11
8
What surprising agreement do the arguers finally reach and how does the story end?
9:11–9:44