The Cook’s Tale

1. Presenters: Lori Throne, VoldaAppia-Kusi • Character Name: The apprentice • Type of tale: Moral The Cook’s Tale

2. The Reeve’s just finished his tale and the Cook is very pleased with it • He uses a biblical proverb to tell the moral of the tale. • Host accuses him of giving people food poisoning, selling bad meat pies, and draining the gravy out of pies to make them last longer. • The Cook explains that this is true and promises to tell a tale about a host later. Prologue

3. The apprentice is well-built, short, has tan skin, and neatly kept black hair; he’s so good at dancing he is called the Perkin Reveler. • His main job is to sell food, but he likes to dance more than work. The Story

4. The apprentice loved to dance and drink • He stole from his master often The Story

5. His master remembers an old proverb: A rotten apple’s better thrown away before it spoils the barrel • Decides to let the apprentice go because of the proverb The Story

6. The apprentice is fired, so he’s free to party and do what he likes • He found board with another man who liked to party, drink, and dance The Story

7. The man kept his wife only for show • The wife ran a shop but was really a prostitute THE END The Story

8. The apprentice is described as “as brown as a berry”, which is a simile because it uses like/as to compare his skin to a berry. • The apprentice talks so much he’s compared to a “finch in the woods”, which is a simile because it compares his conversations to how a finch acts in the woods. Simile

9. There’s a reference to Solomon in The Bible, “Into your house not every man invite. It’s perilous to let one lodge at night. And well advised should every fellow be On whom he brings to share his privacy.” This is an allusion because it references Solomon in The Bible, when talking about the Reeve’s Tale. • There’s a reference to an old proverb: “A rotten apple’s better thrown away before it spoils the barrel”. This is an allusion because it references an old proverb when the boss is deciding what to do with the apprentice. Allusion

10. We were UPSET because Chaucer never finished the tale. • The tale was very short, and had no real conflict which made it really boring. • It seemed more like a description than an actual story. *We were upset. Reflection