THE CANTERBURY TALES WEEK15

Hi. Did you enjoy your winter vacation?

It’s final time to post reading blogs at last!!

~THE CANTERBURY TALES Final~

The last story is “The Nun’s Priest Tale”.

There is a couple of a cock called Chaunticleer and a hen called Pertelote. They are good and wise and Chaunticleer believes that any dreams mean something. One day, he had a bad dream, so he told his wife about it. Moreover, he taught her some examples that bad dreams happened actually.

When he is singing beautifully, he runs into a fox.  The fox praises the cock’s singing to catch and eat it. Unfortunately, the cock is caught with the fox’s mouth. But then, he proposals the fox, “To say to stupid people and cock’s family that they should go home and do not make noise”. And the fox agreed and opened his mouth….

It’s an interesting ending! The cock is really wise bird! The story has an important message that we should not believe everything other people say to us.

 

                                                  Thank you for reading my post!

THE CANTERBURY TALES WEEK14

Hi. A Happy New Year!!

I'll finish reading "The Canterbury Tales" till next post!

~THE CANTERBURY TALES~
In this time, I read "The Friar's Tale". The story has a sense of fantasy because the main character meets one devil.

There was an important man in the church who was very bad. He wanted people's money. He caught people who did bad things and said, 'You can leave the church again if you give me a lot of money.'

One day, he wanted an old woman to give him money and then he met a devil who had a human's figure. The summoner had an idea that he got a lot of money from the old woman with the devil. The old woman began to cry and said 'I don't have any money! I didn't do any bad things! I hope that the blackest devil in the hell carries you(the summoner) away! And thecokking pot too!' . The devil asked her 'Do you really mean what you're saying ,madam?' and she answered 'Yes, I do! The devil can carry him away-clothes, cooking pot, everything!'......

The ending of the story surpried me so much! And I thought that the devil was gentle and obedient!
                                                                                             see you next time.....