•PART ONE · Old and strict he tended to ignore/ He let go by things of yesterday / and took the modern worlds more spacious way
· The monk occupation tells us that this was written in old times like the 1400's
· Monks character social standing was that he was a drunk always disobeying his own religion
· The charater day to day life in the canterbury tales is that he drinks a lot at bars
· Chaucer doesnt include any parts that he actuallly does monk activites
· Modern day monk can be known as a buddhist person that likes to meditate
•PART TWO – Paraphrase "Hunting was his sport" means he likes killing animals. He was a manly man that worked in a monastery. He owned small horses. He never worried about things of the past. He described himself as a modern man. He would hunt with his greyhounds. His clothes were embellished. His head was bald and shiny. The monk was fat and happy. He was also very pale
· His head was bald and shone like looking glass, He was fat and personable priest, his prominent eyeballs never seemed to settle.
·Abbot, uncloistered, cloistered, glib, gallant
•PART 3 ·What is Chaucer’s opinion toward this character? Chaucer doesn't approve of the monk, he believes that the Monk is more concerned about physical objects and enjoying life than God and worship. ·What specific lines or words tell you this? ·What word choices require an understanding of vocabulary from the time period?