Chaucer has many pilgrims in his general prologue. With each person, he describes their personalities and characteristics. Chaucer describes what that person's clothing is like and how they live out their lives. All of them are from that certain time period. For example, Chaucer describes a monk, a miller, a knight, a squire, and many other characters from that time period. In the present time, Chaucer would have made different characters that live in today's time period. If Chaucer were writing today, three of his new characters would be a nerd, a gangster, and a police officer. The first new character would be a nerd. The nerd has recently become a common term in today’s society. Nerds are super smart characters that wear different clothes and talk about school work all the time. Their clothes could be described as somewhat unusual. They would wear polo or plaid shirts with tight jeans and Converse shoes. The nerds also have big glasses and slicked back greasy hair. Their voices would be high pitched and squeaky. All the nerds would hang out together at school and after school to do their school work together. Being beaten up by bullies would be a common thing for the nerd. Chaucer would most likely add the nerd to his list of characters because they are very common today. …show more content…
The gangster is very easy to spot in large cities across the United States. Gang members tend to hang out in dark alleys and in deserted parts of the city. They wear large plain t-shirts and loose baggy pants. The gangster would have lots of tattoos all over their face, arms and chest. Having knives and guns hidden under their belts would be a very common thing for the gangster. They would spend most of their time fighting with rival gangs in the city; always competing for territory of the area. There would be lots of shootings and drive byes against other gang members. The gangster would be a very popular character to add to Chaucer’s list of modern day