Jared Fogle In The Canterbury Tales

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In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer writes the discrepancies between the way the pilgrims present themselves and the way they are internally or spiritually. In modern society, as well, celebrities wear masks that hide who they really are. One such celebrity is Jared Fogle, who showed himself to the public as a representative for the Subway franchise, and a public figure of the well-known “Subway Diet”, but in actuality he is an egregious sex offender. The way that Jared portrayed himself in the media seems to be one way, but he was actually hiding behind a mask. Chaucer’s message that people do not always reveal who they truly are is still pertinent. Jared S. Fogle, also known as The Subway Guy was a representative who worked for the Subway …show more content…

Between 2010 and 2013, Jared traveled from Indiana to New York to have sex with minors by paying them. One of the many poor victims of Jared came out and said that she had sex with Fogle two times when she was seventeen in exchange for money. He traveled to New York and met her there. Once at the Plaza Hotel and once at the Ritz Carlton. She also said that Fogle had sex with her three times when she was only sixteen. After that girl came out, another girl said that Fogle paid her as well when she was only sixteen. By his court trial, there were even some witnesses that testified against him saying that he went up to them and asked them to find minors for him for a “finder’s fee”. Jared was not a good man, people thought that he cared about children, that America should work on weight loss and that he contributed to that cause. But in reality, Jared was hiring people to find minors for him so that he can pay them to have …show more content…

He could not even take responsibility for his actions. Instead, his psychiatrist testified for his saying that the “Subway Diet” made him do it. “Once he lost weight, it seemed as though in a short time he had hyper-sexuality. There are brain disorders that can be associated with sexual drive” says his psychiatrist. Fogle has the nerve to blame his famous weight loss of 245 pounds to be the reason he committed all the crimes. Even if this was true, just because someone has the urge to do something, if it is not right, then they should not be doing it. Especially Jared who went all out for his sexual urges. What he did was wrong and against many laws, but he still did it and he should not be blaming a sickness of “mild pedophilia” according to his psychiatrist, for the reasons he has done what he has done. The media portrayed him as an honest man, but the fact that he cannot even admit to what he has done shows that he is

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