Umana and Amanda Fiorellino A Moral Tale Prologue The Cook praises both the Reeve and the Miller for their own tales He promises that his own tale will be just as great But it wont be up to their standards because he is dishonest in his work ID: 811046
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The Cook’s Tale
Nancy Umana and Amanda FiorellinoA Moral Tale
Slide2PrologueThe Cook praises both the Reeve and the Miller for their own
talesHe promises that his own tale will be just as greatBut it won’t be up to their standards, because he is dishonest in his work.
Slide3Tale SummaryNew apprentice starts living in the cooks town, who is known as Perkin Reveler
He loves to sing and dance But he also loves to gamble and drink
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He would gamble everyday He was the best apprentice in town who, “rattled dice and threw them down”His master saw how easily he spent his money and became aware of his problems“He often found his box bare”
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“When a prentice takes to vice… his master in the shop shall be the one who pays though having no part in the fun”The apprentice’s master was sick of his terrible behaviorHe thought about an old proverb, “ A rotten apples better thrown away before it spoils the barrel.”
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The master let the apprentice goThe apprentice then left and found refuge with his friend, “a chap of his own sort”His friend’s wife owned a store, but it was only for public appearances to mask her prostitution.
Slide7Literary DevicesIrony: At first the Cook comes across as a nice, cheery man. In the prologue, we find out he serves old food to people and gets pilgrims poisoned by his rotten food. For example, “There’s many a pilgrim wishes you Christ’s curse; Your parsley has them feeling all the worse (They ate it with your stubble-nourished goose), For in your shop so many flies are loose”.
Slide8Literary Devices ContinuedFigurative language:
Simile: “ The Reeve’s Tale pleased the London cook as much as a back-scratching” and “He was as full of love, as is the beehive full of honey sweet.”Alliteration: “And play at dice at such-and-such a street”
Slide9Our ReflectionWe didn’t like the
plot of the tale because it doesn’t advance and the characters don’t develop The tale is left unfinished by Chaucer, we don’t know if it was purposely left unfinished or if the pages were possibly lostBoth the Cook and the apprentice have similar characteristics and it is possible that the tale might actually be an autobiographyThe cook came across like a honest man, but was very hypocritical.