1. The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer By: Carolyn Marrone and Dale Eggert The Reeve’s Tale

5. Plot synopsis Exposition : Miller and His wife live with their two children at the mill in Trumpington. The Miller and his family are visited by two students from Cambridge, John and Alan. Rising Actions : While the students were grinding their corn at the mill, the Miller set their horses free While the two boys were looking for their horses, the Miller stole half of their cornmeal. The two boys finally found their horses and the Miller invited them to stay the night . To get back at the Miller for stealing their cornmeal, Alan has sex with Molly all night long while everyone is sleeping. Out of Jealousy, John moved the baby cradle to the foot of his bed so that when the Miller’s wife got up un the middle of the night, she would get into bed with him. John had sex with the Miller’ s wife. “Till the third morning cock began to sing” Molly told Alan where the cake was with their cornmeal baked into it . Climax : Alan crawls into bed with the Miller since there was no cradle at the foot of his bed. Thinking it was John, he tries to wake him up and whispers in his ear “ Get ready to leave, I have been having sex with Molly all night!” The Miller Punched Alan in the face and made him bleed. The Miller tripped and fell on his wife. His wife thought that she was in bed with her husband and thought that the two students were fighting. She beat her husband, thinking it was Alan, with a stick and he fell to the ground. Conclusion : The two boys ran off with their cornmeal and their horses. “Do evil and be done by as you did” Falling Actions: