Jared Fogle In The Canterbury Tales

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

Food Chain Restaurants in its advertising Campaigns. When he was still in college he fascinated many people for his significant weight loss, known as the “Subway Diet”. The “Subway Diet” was a diet in which he only ate subway sandwiches and worked out. He started working for Subway as a spokesman and was a well-liked man to many employees and people who looked up to him and who wanted to lose as much weight as he did through “The Subway Diet”. The media viewed him as a fairly successful, winsome guy. But, under his mask he was a vulgar perverted sex offender. In reality, he received child pornography, and repeatedly had sex with minors. He traveled across country lines to pay minors for sex. He worked with a fellow business partner to secretly tape videos of minors with hidden cameras. He even said that the cause of his actions was due to a sickness of “mild pedophilia”. He was a profane man, and unequivocally not someone who America thought he was.
Jared Fogle made everyone think he was a stupendous representative and public figure. Many people wanted to be like him. They wanted to be able to lose hundreds of pounds by only eating subway sandwiches. He was a prosperous man with a wife and two kids, the media portrayed him to be a “good guy”. He is most definitely not a “good guy”. One of the many bad things that the sex offender has done was when he befriended Tayler, his business partner. Fogle received many pornographic pictures of minors while they were engaging in sexually explicit contact. When Fogle first befriended Taylor, they had conversations about child porn, and Fogle found out what Taylor was doing. What Fogle should have done was alert the authorities and tell them how he takes videos and pictures of minors secretly. But instead, he chose to benefit from the pornographic images by gaining access to a copious amount of the material. All the pictures and videos were recorded by Taylor at his home through using hidden cameras. Fogle had the chance to turn Taylor in, but instead he joined forces with him and took videos and pictures with Taylor. The media thought he was a role model for weight loss. He made an organization about weight loss for children. But he was a gross man who connivingly took pornographic images and videos of minors.
Not only did Jared Fogle have pornographic images and videos of minors, but he acted upon his perverted needs.

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

sex.
Once Jared Fogle was caught in his despicable acts and was sent to court, he tried making up excuses for why what happened, happened.

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

not.
Just because someone is famous, or seems to be a good person by the cover, does not mean that they are one. Someone who might sound like a great public figure or a good role model from the media, might not be true in reality. Jared Fogle, who showed himself to the public as a spokesman for the Subway franchise, and a public figure for the well-known “Subway Diet” is in fact in actuality an egregious sex offender. He was a disgusting man, and most definitely not someone who people should aspire to be. Fogle had the chance to turn his business partner Taylor in, for secretly taping videos of minors. But instead he joined forces with him and decided to connivingly take the pornographic images and videos of minors for his own benefit. Jared even hired people to find minors for him so he can pay them to have sex. What he did was wrong and against many laws and he blamed the sickness “mild pedophilia” for the reasons he committed the crimes which are not acceptable. Jared hid who he really was from the media and portrayed himself as a good role model while in reality he was not. Chaucer shows the readers of The Canterbury Tales sides of the characters that were not recognizable before he showed who they really were, just as Jared Fogle presented himself as a dichotomy to the media.