Actors best Fit for Canterbury Tales

Actors best fit for Canterbury Tales
Elizabeth Mitchell- The Wife of Bath
The wife of bath is described as a handsome looking female
who had 5 husbands and was always looking for someone new.
I picked Elizabeth Mitchell for this role because not only is she also
a handsome female, she acts well and could certainly play this part.
While her major roles mostly consist of her playing a conniving, calm, strict woman, I think that she could come out of her comfort zone and play someone crazy. Elizabeth first came to mind when I read the Wife of Bath because to me she fitted the character to a T. Elizabeth’s elegant face, long nose, and prominent cheek bones felt perfect for portraying a woman from such a long time ago.
Jonny Lee Miller- Doctor
The doctor to me felt like he was fooling everyone in town, like no one even suspected that he might be scamming them out of money, so my first thought was to find someone who looked like they could play a doctor. I came across Jonny Lee. Much to my surprise during my research of his past roles I found that he was actually cast for a role in the Pardoner’s tale TV series. Someone obviously agreed with me that he would be a good actor for a role such as this. With Jonny Lee’s extensive acting history I think that he would have no problem acting as a simple, con artist/doctor.
Benedict Cumberbatch- The Oxford Cleric
After watching Sherlock Holmes I knew that the scrawny, nerdy, school boy had to be Benedict. Even his curls were right for this role. Because he has played a smart role before he could most definitely play this background book nerd kind of guy. Just give him a pair of round, taped together, glasses and he’ll be golden! His major roles recently have all been set in the past so there is no worry about him not being able to get into the old time period kind of talk. I think he is a great welcome to the pack of three amazing actors in my version of the Canterbury Tales.

Poem in Iambic pantameter

We know a girl who has a crazy laugh,
Her run can be like a baby giraffe.
She always tries not to fall and stumble,
She runs so fast that she starts to tumble.
Her golden hair likes to flow in the air,
Her hair is big just like a fluffy bear.
She can never open her own locker,
She creeps around the halls like a stalker.
Even though she is a little insane,
We love her so much that we cant complain.

Guide through hell

Instead of picking someone who only sinned to the first levels (like giving into greed), I would pick someone who has been through to the bottom of hell. They would be the most accurate guide because they are familiar with the area. If I could I would pick the devil himself. Instead of being guided by a human that was merely thrown into hell, I would pick the one who created hell. Plus it would be awesome to meet the devil.

iRead Journal Prompt #6 for The Compound

As a story with a main character that is male, there is bound to be a female character to accompany him. Mainly there are love interests or mothers. In this story Eli lives along with his two sisters, Lexie and Terese. He also lives in the compound with his mother. This story mainly consists of weak women who are more concerned about family than the inevitable death from starvation. They are manipulated in cruel ways and the only strong women were left on the surface world.

Terese is the youngest of the original family and therefore seeks someone to look out for. Her main purpose in the compound is to look after the supplements while her mother is away. She cares for them and plays with them. Overall she is the gentlest with the need to take care of her younger siblings. The mother and Lexie are the next ones who are the most gentle. They both offer their bodies to conceive a possible food source for the family. While the mother gives birth naturally, Lexie, for a while, accepts that she has to give birth to the clones. Eventually Lexie realizes that she had been played as seen in this quote, “I just didn’t want you to feel like the pioneering is over,” (Bodeen 168). The last two are the strongest of the group, blessed by the author to stand up for themselves. Grams and Els both have a tough characteristic that partially contributed to the reason why they were left to the surface.  

In The Compound it really seemed like being a caring woman was a curse, because each one of them were fooled to do something so significant as to give up their children for sustenance later in life. It also seemed like that’s the only thing any of the girls ever did. Each one cared for the supplements or did other “womanly” acts such as cooking and cleaning. The mother even cleaned a room that hadn’t been used for six years just so that when S. A. Bodeen made Eli stumble into the room, it would be clean and just as he had seen it all those years ago. All three women were pawns, though important, to create a family environment that Eli would turn to. The main character, Eli, in the beginning of the book looked down on the mother and Terese for caring so much about his siblings. When he turn, however, he meets the kids that all three women try to protect. This protection would lead to Lucas helping Eli and the others escape from the compound, and finding the code to even make it that far.  At the end of the book, Eli, and somewhat the author, come around to the woman’s side and everyone begins to care more about the human life than the crazy idea of cannibalism.

So while in the beginning you often overlook the presence of the mother, Lexie, and Terese, they are very much noticeable in the coming chapters. 

iRead Prompt Journal #9 for The Compund

While reading The compound I often found myself caught off guard by the reveals in almost every chapter. Every new element introduced provided a problem in their “perfect” underground bunker. Some were more gruesome and downright creepier than others. The first moment where I felt truly uncomfortable is when it is revealed that they are reproducing to satisfy their hunger when the food supply gets low. In a book as calm as it had been until that moment, it was very shocking to suddenly read that cannibalism was a possibility in their future. It is only on page 122 that with the quote, ‘Dad shifted his gaze to Mom…”We need to bolster our supplemental food supply.” She stared at him. “Unless you’ve come up with something to guarantee multiple births, I’m already working at my quota,”’ (Bodeen 122) you fully understand the severity of the situation. Up until then the “supplements” were not explained.

                The supplement example doesn’t even begin to describe the distasteful choices that the characters are making. The clones and the confession were undoubtedly horrendous twists to any reader. At first you are meant to believe that this family is simply trying to prevent an almost unavoidable fate, this is, until the confession. Slowly throughout the book, Bodeen, reveals small details that hint Rex’s plan all along, but only when he openly confesses that you experience the disgust. Rex, even after being discovered, tries to spin things around to convince the rest of the family of the good in his actions. Soon Rex finds that manipulating is futile, Eli had figured out too much. Here you finally confirm your suspicions from previous chapters. Rex, the father, had set up the whole ordeal. He had convinced the others that there was a nuclear war, purposely sabotaged the food supply, and just waited to see how far they would go to keep living. “I wanted to see if we could do it, if our family really had what it takes to survive.” Immediately, the thought to me became revolting. He was nothing but a parasite living off of the satisfaction of his experiment.

                At the end of this book I really started thinking about this situation, about how this family felt the need to become cannibals to survive. I always hear people saying how they would do the politically correct thing in hypotheticals. They say they would save that man from being crushed by a train, or confront a burglar when he tried to steal from a woman in an ally way. Everything is in terms of what if’s, but I wonder if they would stay true to their words when actually in such a situation. Obviously I want to say that I wouldn’t eat the children I helped raise, but honestly, I don’t know that I wouldn’t. The fear of death could loom over my head and convince my mind that it was the right thing to do. After all isn’t that what they were originally bred for? All I know is that those situations are unpredictable and no one will ever know how exactly they will react until it happens.

Journal 3- Earth comes to an end

My arm stings from the constant struggle  with these large, wide eyed beasts. They keep telling me I've won something. I can’t really tell what though because their English is horrible, it reminds me only of something like Klingon. I feel so isolated in this weird futuristic place. Everything is white except for these monsters  that surround me.

            My new “friends” walk me into a large, perfectly round room that echoes every breath that only I make. The creatures stop and I look up to these towering, green, slimy monsters. Some walk out of the room, the remaining 10 give me this creepy and incredibly disturbing smile. Their mouths stretch across their watermelon sized heads. This reminds me of an alien joker. Beads of sweat and slime trickle down faces. It looked as though everyone’s face around me was beginning to melt. To my utter horror, they started to speak to me again.

            “So humen. Whew werl join yew?” The tallest one asks. I just stand there unwilling to give an answer, or for that matter, move. Crickets would chirp if we were still in human territory. Smiles quickly faded into disappointing looks.

            “Yew herv beern picked, humen,” one of the deformed monsters yells from the back. I began to form words to please these beasts that were undoubtedly able to crush my fragile bones with one hand. 

Journal 2- Song Inspiration

            The song that I am constantly inspired by is called, Good morning sunshine by Alex Day. I always listen to it when I do something art related. Occasionally I listen to it while writing (like now) if I get tired of Eye of the Tiger. The creative juices really start to flow when you hear a song as fluffy as Good Morning Sunshine.  It’s a happy go lucky song that makes you dance in your seat and forces you to sing it for weeks at a time. Also Alex Day, the singer, has a very calming voice that seems to relieve you of all your stress. My favourite line throughout the song is, “They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I can’t help but wonder, if the darkness came tomorrow, could I keep you in my mind?” Somehow it seems very poetic to me.

            The whole song is about if you become distant with someone you know, will you really think of them more often. Do you really not know what you have until it’s gone? To me this is a more original song than love songs, it actually has a point. The only negative I have about this song is that it is annoyingly catchy. Even if you remember a part of the song, you’ll end up singing the whole thing to yourself. While doing so you will smile to yourself and go on throughout the day in a much happier mood. This song really brightens up your day!