“AÑO DE LA UNIDAD, LA PAZ Y EL DESARROLLO "

“INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC PEDAGOGICAL HIGHER EDUCATION

“JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO”

AREA
Literature Perspectives VI

TEACHER
Josue Dávila Coronel.

STUDENT
Dayli Mirelly Saavedra Fernández

CAREER AND CYCLE

English Language VI

2023
 SUMMARY AND MORAL OF THE COOK`S TALE

SUMMARY:

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories told by pilgrims on

their way to Canterbury to pass the time. One of the characters on the trip is the Cook. He
is not described in as much detail as the others, and the shared history of him is extremely
short since The Canterbury Tales is unfinished and Chaucer never completed the story.
However, the cook is still an interesting character in the book.

This fragment of a tale, which Chaucer neither finished nor deleted, is not long enough
to accurately predict what happens to the young Reveling Peterkin, but all indications are
that he quickly falls into sin.

In "The Cook's Tale", Chaucer begins the story of a young apprentice cook, named
Reveling Peterkin, who works in London and loves to dance, sing, gamble, party and all
kinds of sinful things, Peter would hang out with many friends to do different activities
and among them their vices. After being fired by his master, the young man is free to
party all night and day and joins another young man as corrupt as him and moves his bed
and his belongings to his place. The man's wife owns a store that serves as a front for her
immoral activities. and it apparently should have dealt with the total perversion of the
human soul.

EXAMPLE REAL SITUATION:

After reading this story it made me remember that there are people who act the same
way in life, for example in the lives of many students who have a planned life and
decide to go somewhere else for the reason of studying, but sometimes Life is not as
one usually plans and they hang out with people who live badly, which leads them down
a bad path in their lives and their plans change direction, losing them in different vices,
and many not achieving their goals.
MORAL:

We cannot tell from this fragment exactly what the moral lesson would have turned out
to be. Yet, we can tell that the Cook is telling a story about a man who goes from one vice
to another. He is telling a story about human nature and how we shouldn't start down the
path of evil, or we may end up somewhere very bad. This young man thinks his life is
pretty good at this point; he is just having fun. But he has been thrown out of a good
position, one which had the potential to be a very good position in the future, for a life of
unknown and possible danger. The main moral lesson of this fragment is that, although
you may seem happy, once you start down the path of one vice, you will continue finding
more vices until your life is quite evil.

Another side moral lesson of this fragment is that the master decided to let Perkin go once
he remembers that it is better to let one bad apple go than to let it ruin the entire batch.
This moral lesson is saying that evil tends to spread not only within the person but from
one person to another.