Sunday, December 4, 2011

Jack And Jill Went Up The Hill, And The Story Makes No Sense

Before I begin, here is the original story. (for those of you who have never heard it.)

"Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after."

It doesn't even rhyme.

To begin telling you about why this makes no sense, I would first like to point out that there is normally no water source at the top of a hill. You don't go "up to the river" you go "down to the river" (this is also in the Bible and in worship songs, so really, who can argue?) although there are mountains with waterfalls, it's because there was snow, and normally mountains have some water-thing at the bottom where it drains so there is no need to go up a mountain. Besides, it is a hill, not a mountain. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. I imagined a well. A well at the top of the hill. This is way more work than it should be because for starters, walking up a hill is not easy, it's tiring, and secondly, who would put a well at the top of a hill? You would have to dig way deeper because you would have to get to the water table below the surface, and also below the hill, so you would end up spending a ton of energy and time digging when you could have just done part of the work on level ground. The theory that maybe there is a house on top of the hill and the owners wanted a well could work, but in the process of building that house they would probably have had to drag all of the materials for it up the hill, which is also a lot of work. Not only this, but Jack and Jill could probably find a well on level ground and closer anyways. Then again, if there was a house at the top of the hill, Jacks parents could sue the owners for the dangerous landscaping after Jack breaks his crown.

I am convinced that Jack and Jill both died falling down a well that shouldn't have been there to begin with because it's a stupid place for a well. And with this information, it just seems odd and unnatural, so there is some supernatural force associated with the well and therefore this is the great set up for one of those Grimm Fairytale stories in which there is a lot of horror and disturbing things about the well and the dead people in it. I bet Jack and Jill weren't the only victims, I mean, poor Timmy fell down a well too, and in reality Lassie was never there to save him. Then there was that donkey, Amos, who fell into a well, but apparently this only applies to people because the donkey was rescued, or was he...? Dun dun dun.

Any more theories?

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