The Millers Tale

The Millers Tale is a funny story from The Canterburry Tales an ancient book. The genre is a dark comedy because the reader laughs at the bad things that happen to the characters because they become funny.

Dark comedy is when the reader/viewer laughs or thinks its funny when something negative happens to one of the characters. In this case for example when Nicolas and Alison have an affair and they do tuff so John(Alisons husband) does not caught them. Nicolas plays being ill and Alison has to take "care" of him. Even when Nicolas invented John a long story telling him that here was going to be a draungh like in Noas Ark so he had to follow specific rules like not looking or touching his wife while  the draught happeed. At the end of the story he died and Alison and Nicolas said he died because he was madd, very crazy.

There is also dark comedy with Absalom who is a character that I considered very anoying because he was not an ineresting character that would anoye the reader by his dumbness. "...Crul was his heer, and as the gold it shoon,...And strouted as a fanne large and brode;" the way he is discribed made me think as if he was dumb and discordinated. Through out the story he was hitting on Alison but did not get annything from her because she liked Nicolas. When he even realized that she was havig an affair with Nicolas and wanted John to realize his plan did no pann out and Alison did not liked him more than what she used to. The ones that ended up winning were Alison and Nicolas because they got rid of John and making Absalom suffer in some scenes for example when he wanted to kiss Alison but he ended up kissing Nicolas; or when he is hitting on Alison while she is with John and he is out in the window screaming Alisons name.

I think that John and Absalom where characters fooled by others in the story and that is what makes it part of the dark comedy. Eventhough they were fooled and made fun of they formed the dark comedy in this story.

A Knights Tale

"In the game and in the love everything is accepted" This is what my grandmother tells me often when we play cards and she makes a move that makes her win. In love, romance anything is worthid. People take risks to  be with the one they love; they even break the rules and get to the limit for love.

Geoffrey Chaucer an english writter/poet wrote A Knights Tale; which is a  prose of mithological characters. Palamon and Arcite were cousins who falled in love with the same women. They started up in the prison of their enemy and ended up as enemies. They were forced to fight to obtain the love of a women called Emeley. Eventhough they were cousins they pray and fought until the end that Arcite is killed by a night, and tells Emeley that Palamon should be the man that she should be with “...trouthe, honour, knyghthede, / Wysdom, humblesse...” are the words that Arcite  describes Palamon and it made me realize that at the end the two cousins had love for each other eventhoug they loved the same person.

Migrations -Dorian Merina

Migrations is a poem and a shortfilm written by Dorian Merina. Dorian tells the reader the dificulty with imigrants in the world, specially in the americas and in africa. She also talked about the conquista, which made me feel unconfotable while I was watching the clip because the narrator said it so simple that it showed no importance. This poem has made me think a lot of the conquista and the slavery arround the world.

The way the poems starts "On the boats come the goods that cross the waters" I interpreted it as if a nation is on a voyage to new horrizons and it makes me wonder if the voyage will be a failure or succesful. This could also be related to a real life expirience for imigrants that move to different countries in order to live a different life.

The narrator continued with a list of food that is grown in the americas; such as, avocado, calanaza. Then there is a list of the races of the people that have integrated between each other and it made me think of Thanksgiving because the Pilgrims and the Indian natives decided to  share the wealth.

"...of smooth-abdomened ants carry blond eggs..." is a quote that reminded me of a movie, Gone With the Wind; which talks about the American Civil War for colored people`s rights. Scaret (Leigh) is a women of a wealthy family with slaves and eventhough U.S.A is on war the slaves (ants) would be taking care of her(blond eggs) and would be protected as if she were part of their family.

Migrations ending is the closing of the poems as if it was the return to home. This can be shown as a real life challenges; someones dream may begin on the right foot but, it may end in the wrong foot. Eventhoug the spaniards conquered the Americas and expanded their territory, they caused a lot of missery by tourturing the natives. As well as in Gone With the Wind, Scarlet had her slaves for a long time but, she ended up in the missery with nothing  in her hands. Dorian Merina showed the reader that this can happen in many different  societies and it is something that will happen constantly. She opened the poem with what she ended it; therefre, eventhough something is over there will be a new movement starting.