Reeve

Reeve

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Good Afternoon! I am a government official and in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales I was The Reeve. I live in the United States and work for the government. I have to travel a lot because my job in the government forces me to move very often. What I do is top secret and I am trusted by everyone I come in to contact with I am very powerful and I can be more clever than most people think. I am a business man so I am very good at what I do. I am a family man and I earn good money, but I am tricky with how I get the money. I am very sly and “No auditor can put a gain on me.” (Chaucer 121). I have a wife and three children we live in the suburbs and maintain a very good life.

**Use Textual Evidence to Support **
 * || Character in Chaucer’s Prologue

||  Your Modern Character || 

||  ||  || || Reeve
 * Profession and Name:

|| Government official ||  ||  |||| Professional Middle-class  ||
 * Their Class:  || Feudal
 * Physical Description:

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';"> || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">*old <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">*thin
 * beard was closely shaven
 * Shorn hair
 * Docked on top- (bowl haircut)
 * Leg like sticks
 * Dapple-gray
 * Wore a bluish overcoat that was long
 * Had a rusty blade at his side

|||| <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">*Middle aged What kind of person is he/she?
 * Thin
 * Long legs
 * Suit
 * Short hair ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Description of Personality:

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';"> || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">*Choleric <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">*Clever ( No auditor could gain a point on him.)
 * Trustworthy
 * Reliable
 * Sly
 * Powerful to those underneath him
 * Good with business matters
 * Mean

|||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">*Ill-tempered || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Positive view because the Reeve was good at a lot of things and he was a very smart man. He knew what he was doing and knew how to do things very well, and he was trustworthy.
 * Clever
 * Trustworthy
 * Powerful
 * Good with business matters
 * Sly
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Chaucer’s Opinion of the Character: Does he have a positive or negative view of the character? Be careful of his sarcasm!

|||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Positive because he is trustworthy, clever, and he is good with business matters. He protects many people mainly from things that could harm them. On the negative side he is very sly and he can get away with a lot of things because he cannot be caught for what he is doing. || || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';"> “Were wholly trusted to his government.” |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">He is the equivalent because he has power over people but he is not the most powerful and he is trusted by everyone.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Statement/Justification:

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 * ** Aspect on your Voki Modern Character ** || ** The Reason/Justification for that choice: How does that help communicate the character? ** ||
 * ** -He is old **
 * -He’s a political being **
 * -The backround is of a government building **

|| ** *because he was old in the book. **
 * *because he is good at doing business **
 * *Because he is in the government ** ||

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">**__Explore the Other Characters__**:(**Fill in below for THREE characters)** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> Name of the Character 1: Pardoner What you learned about the character: I learned that the pardoner was sly and cunning, he also likes money a lot and would do anything to hustle people out of their money. How would your character react to this character. Explain WHY. I think that they would get along well beacuse they are both sly and they both like money a lot and would do absolutely anything to get their hands on more money.

Name of the Character 2: Woman of Bath What you learned about the character: I learned that he is very hard working and that he was well liked.

How would your character react to this character. Explain WHY. I think that they would get along well because they are both hard working and are both very well liked.

Name of the Character 3: Oxford Cleric What you learned about the character: I learned that he is short and to the point, and he never spoke more than what was needed.

How would your character react to this character. Explain WHY. I do not know how well they would get along because the oxford cleric is very very honest and the Reeve is not.