Canterbury Tales

In school we read the book Canterbury Tales. In this book there is a group of thirty pilgrims traveling to Canterbury. While they are traveling they have a contest who can tell the best story, whoever wins gets all there meals for free on there way back. Throughout the book they all tell there story, but the story I think was the best told was the Pardoner’s tale: Death’s Murderers. In the beginning of the story a guy named Grab just heard that his friend Colley caught the black death. So Grab got his friends together (who were Dip and Cut) and they set out to find death and kill him! When they were looking around for him they came across this old man traveling alone. So they asked if he knew were death was and he said over there under the tree and so they go over to it and find a pot of gold and ends up killing each other for the pot of gold. I thought that was the best story told because it has a good meaning to it, “Never be so greedy that you would kill your friends for it.” But the worst story told was told was probably the Nuns priest tale: The Nightmare Beast of the Firebrand tale. In this tale there is a roster named Chanticleer, he had a dream that a big beast attacked him while he was crowing in the morning. So he tells his wife about it and she just tells him it was just a dream and it will not come true. Then it was time to go out and crow to wake everybody up, so when he got to the court yard there was the monster in his dream! It really was not a monster it was a red fox, he was about to run but then he started to talk to him about how long he travled to just hear him sing. So Chanticleer started to crow, but then the fox came up and scooped him up in his mouth and started to run of with him, but then the people who owned him ran after the fox with brooms trying to get there roster back. Then Chanticleer convinced the fox to turn around and make faces at them but while he did that the roster sliped out of his mouth into a tree. I thought this was the worst story because to me it did not really have a meaning to it, like there was nothing to learn from it. To make it a good story it would have to have a good ending, a point to it, and a good plot.