1. The Summoner's Tale
Silvia Choi

2. Character Analysis -Physical traits "face on fire"
black & scabby brows
narrow eyes 
thin beard
-a heavy drinker 
-attempts to speak Latin
-irritable & greedy
-a summoner brings people who violate church laws to the court 

3. The Summoner's Prologue
-the Summoner is angry after listening to the Friar's tale
-tells the story of a friar who had a vision of hell; there, friar asked an angel where all other friars were
-the angel lifted up Satan's tale and there were 20,000 friars
-reflects the summoner's general view of friars

4. The Summoner's Tale the friar -from Holderness, Yorkshire
-makes his living by going around houses, promising prayers in exchange for food & money
-first, he puts down the name of contributors on his tablet, but as soon as he is out of the house, erases the names
-shows that friars were often greedy and weren't devoted Christians
the friar

5. The Summoner's Tale cont...
-the friar visits an old and sick man named Thomas
-he tells the old man that other friars are praying for him to get better
-Thomas' wife walks in and the friar compliments her beauty
-requests to pray for her sick husband so that his anger could subdue/ tells the friar that her baby died 
-the friar requests a lavish dinner

6. The Summoner's Tale cont...
-the friar tells Thomas that instead of giving money to many friars, he should concentrate on one
-he preaches about the sin of anger
-Thomas gets really angry and tells the friar that he has a gift which the friar must share equally among other friars
-the friar reaches down his hand under Thomas's butt and Thomas lets out a big fart

7. The Summoner's Tale cont...
-feeling disgusted, the friar goes to the Lord's house
-there, the friar thinks about how he could possibily divide the old man's gift
-the Lord's servant suggests that the friar should get a 13-spoke wheel; have all friars kneel at each spoke and tie the old man to the middle
-the Lord rewards the servant with a new gown for his excellent idea

8. Why?
-reflects his occupation as a summoner because he has to bring people who violate church laws to the court
-also reflects the summoner's general view of friars
-to attack the friar, who offended the summoner through his story
-shows how church officials were very corrupted
-somewhat ironic because the summoner himself isn't a good man