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!
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THE CANTERBURY TALES WEEK13

Hello:) "The Canterbury Tales" is very interesting! It's easy to read for me because it collects short stories. I did not write any ending of the stories in my post, so you are worth reading the rest of these stories by yourself. Anyway...,

~THE CANTERBURY TALES~
This time, I've read two stories, "The Pardoner's Tale" and " The Franklin's Tale".

First, "The Pardoner's Tale". There were three bad men and they wanted to find and kill Death (the god of death). On their way, they found a lot of money! However, all of the three wanted to keep the money to themselves in their real minds. Thus, The two of them made a plan to kill another man while he was going to a town to buy food and drinks. Whereas the man who went to the town was planning to kill the two men by liquor with poison...

Next, " The Franklin's Tale". a beautiful lady, Dorigen and a knight, Arveragus got married. They really love each other. However, Arveragus had to leave his wife and home for a few years. Dorigen was living sadly and kept waiting and waiting for her husband. Then, a young man who had fell in love with her told her his feeling. She suggested a unreasonable demand. She asked him to take the black rocks away from the sea because she was afraid of hitting and sinking her husband's ship by those rocks. Of course, she had never the young man could do like that! So, she promised him to love him if he could take rocks away. After a while, her husband returned back and she was living happily but the same time, the young man met a magician and could do that! The rocks disappeared from view by his and the magician's magic....!

Both of stories have sense of fantasy and trick. It's interesting! I'm looking forward to reading next stories.
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THE CANTERBURY TALES WEEK12

Hi. How are you doing? I'm spending a good time with my family.

Anyway, I started reading a new book, which is " The Canterbury Tales" written by Geoffrey Chaucer. I think that you've heard the title and the author.

~THE CANTERBURY TALES~
A group of pilgrims are traveling together for five days from London to Canterbury. On the way, each pirglim has to tell a story to keep the others amused.

I've already read the three tales, 'The Knight's Tale', 'The Clerk's Tale' and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'.
All of them are interesting story!

First, 'The Knight's Tale'. There are two knights who are prisoned in a high tower in Athens by Duke Theseus. They were living together for a long time and they were good friends. One day, They saw a beautiful girl from the tower, and both of them fell in love with the lady who was yonger sister of Theseus's wife. Since then, they began to have an adversarial relationship. After, one of the knights, Arcite was deportef from Athens and another knight, Palamon was not released. However, they couldn't give up the beautifyl lady....

Second, 'The Clerk's Tale'. A perfect lord, Walter married to the most beautiful girl in his town, Griselda. He made her promise to do what Walter said. Walter wanted to test her love, so he commanded her to cruel orders. He asked her to send away her two children, and at last he asked her to go away. She accepted all orders because she loved him. Walter was convinced that his wife loved him so much. So, he decided to do a last order and give her a bif surprise....

Finally, 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'. There was a knight who was going to be executed. However, he gave a chance to be saved from the execution by the Queen. She asked him to answer a question, 'what did a woman want most in all the world'. The knight gave a year and a day to figure out the answer, but he didn't find. The day was coming, and then he asked an ugly old woman the question's answer. She helped him but she gave him a condition. She said, ' You have to do the first thing that I ask you, if I give you a right answer!’. Fortunately, he gave the queen a good answer and the old lady appeared and said, ' I want you to marry me!'. The queen agreed the exchange and the conditiond, so she ordered him to marry to the old woman. At the beginning, he didn't like her and didn't want to accept her, but he was getting to feel love her because she had a good heart. Finally, he accepted her and kissed her, and then the old lady transformed into a beautiful fairy...!!

I like 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' the best! It's like  'The Beauty and the Beast'! 
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ROBINSON CRUSOE WEEK11

Hi, it is December! Christmas and  our winter vacation are coming:) I'm looking forward to them!
Anyway, this is today's post.

~ROBINSON CRUSOE~ FINAL
 Robinson and his new friend, Friday were enjoying living together. One day, an English ship came to Robinson's island. He felt happy because he might be able to return to his country, England. However, the ship seemed to be strange. The crews had some prisoners and the prisoners were going to be killed. Thus, Robinson and Friday  saved  the prisoners while the crew were sleeping. They could save two prisoners, and one of them was the captain of the ship. His ship and crews were taken away by two bad men. Robinson, Friday, captain and the other man made a plan to rescue the captain's crew and get back his ship from bad men. Finally, the plan was a great success! The two bad men were dead and Friday could see his father who was on the ship as a prisoner. The ship captain deeply appreciated Robinson and he gave his ship to Robinson. Therefore, Robinson returned back to his country, England with Friday. He  had no money when he arrived at England, so the captain gave him two hundred pounds and he became a rich man because he had a large farm in Brazil. And then, he aided his nephews and nieces because his sister and brother were poor. After a while, he got married and had a three children.

At last, Robinson and Friday visited the island. A lot of people were living there and they met his old old friends of the island. Friday's father was there too. He would live on his island again in the future.

It was an interesting story! I thought that any kindness return back to ourselves.!

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ROBINSON CRUSOE WEEK10

Hi, How did you spend your weekend? I had a great time with my family:)
Here is a today's post!

~ROBINSON CRUSOE~
Robinson enjoyed living on the island. He had more than fifity goats, a large garden, a farm with a lot of corn and two good houses.

One day, he found the mark of a man's foot on the island. He was afraid that a stranger was on the island then. Furthernore, he found some humans' bones! He felt that his life threatened, so he began to carry a gun about him. After that he saw cannibals and their prisoners. Two prisoners were being tortured, and one of them was killed before Robinnson. Suddenly, the another prisoner ran away from the cannibal group. Robinson was hiding because he was afraid of being found out by the cannibals, but he finally shot two pursuers of the cannibals and save the prisoner who was a young and good man. Robinson decided to live with the prisoner and named the prisoner Friday because the day was on Friday. Their community life started.

I was scared with the cannibals because I couldn't believe that human ate other men! Also, I felt that it was nice that Robinson met Friday and started with him because he would feel lonely no longer.
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ROBINSON CRUSOE WEEK9

Hi. I began to reading a new book! The title is "Robinson Crusoe". I'm sure that you have heard the title before. It is so so sooo famous! However I have never read the story despite that I know the name of the story. That's why I chose the story.

~ROBINSON CRUSOE~
Robinson Crusoe was born in York, a city in the north of England in 1632. He had an affluence life with his family. His father who had come to England from Germany was a clever man and he said to Robinson "Stay in York. I will help you with money and a job. You can be happy here." However, Robinson left his home without saying nothing because he decided to go to sea on the ship of his friend's father with the friend. But the first journey was interrupted because of a heavy storm. Although the friend's father said him " Go home. The sea is not the place for you.", he couldn't give up to go to sea. So, he left his friend and the father and found a man with a ship. He went to Brazil and after that he left Brazil for Africa with eleven crews and they could find an island. Then,they were involved in a great storm and all of the crews dead except Robinson.

Robinson arrived the island on his own but no one was living there. His new life in the unpopulated island started!

He brought tools and food from his ship, but it sank to the sea with his crews for a few weeks.
Therefore, he hunted animals and ate fruits in the island, and he made his own house, clothes and garden. His life in the island was getting better and better, so he was feeling comfortable for his new life.

I can understand his feeling which he wanted to sail on the great sea. But the sea is strict and dangerous. Robinson is a really luckey and burly man!     
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