Creative Writing?
Hello! I really need some help and ideas for my creative writing assignment. We have to imitate Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. We have 5 different characters (so far, I have a young dark-haired woman, who is a musician from New Jersey), and go on pilgrimage to the city of New York. You have to be different based on gender, class, race and occupation, and where they come. Then each one must tell a story. I have a lot of problems to be creative with them. I really have no idea where to start. I really appreciate any idea. Thank you!
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Start it the same way Chaucer started his. Use the same type of narrator’s voice, set the scene, and introduce them.
Sounds like a fun project!
The answer to your question is stereotypes! The characters from chaucer were stereo types, of sorts, of classes of people and occupations from chaucers time so i would recomend the following:
1.)a white male high school drop out from an upper class family in the suburbs who writes a story about the street life but his story is nothing by lifeless cliches and misrepresentations
2.)a black female single mother who works as a secretary for a slip and fall law firm and lives in the affordable housing of paterson and writes a story about a love triangle between the rich white lawyer, his mistress and his wife and the self destructiveness of the over priveleged
3.) a white teen female student who is completely gothic, black clothes tons of piercings, bleached white skin and too much make up who, despite her “misery chick” attitude through the narative part writes a very mushy love story
4.) an elderly black man, maybe in his late 80′s who still has vivid memories of jim crow, he is living off of social security and a small pension from his previous employer, he doesn’t talk much but everything he says is meaningful, he writes a story about minding your own business but the story ends in disaster for the timid narator who ignores deteriorating social conditions until things get too bad and consume him