The Canterbury Tales and the Oxford Cleric Tale

             In an old time during the Middle Ages, there is a boy known as lazy Joe for his nickname. He is a scholar. His whole family is peasants do farming for the Lord. He always goes out for fun. He is one of the pleasant in those days and all he thinks about is play. Until in his age of 14, he fell in love with the Lord's daughter, Christina. They were true love in each other. They were sneaking out secret without anyone knows. The secret meeting was working well. After the Lord discovered the meeting of them, he was in rage and full anger. The whole family was forced out off the Lord's land if Joe won't stop the behavior of the dating. The Lord said to the Joe and his family," You are rich and you not even think about touch my little daughter. If you do that again, I will kick you off my land. Look at you all poor and you said yourself a scholar." When you heard that, his eye full of anger. He uses anger toward the books to study and work hard. Now, his target for his life is getting to the Oxford University and is to be the best-known scholar. He knows his target is kind of impossible to reach, but he never give up. Now, he is kind to become another person instead of lazy Joe. Whenever he has choice to read the book, he will do it even when he is working.
             One day, he was reading a book while driving a wagon to the Lord's house, he bump into a horse. The old person who sits in the horse was named John. He is a very knowledgeable man. He is kind of known as magician in that time because of his science knowledge. John saw him working so hard and he is very interest in Joe. John later kind of became a teacher to Joe. Every time they meet each other, they will always toward the educated things. After spend a long period of time with John, Joe learn a lot of many things. Joe is started to prepare to take the admission examine. In the same time the Lord told everyone that his daughter is going to married another Lord's son. Joe suddenly in sh...

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