Question

Imagine you are a peasant in the Middle Ages, required to provide food to the knights and nobles. In 350–400 words, describe what your life is like. Discuss the manor on which you live and your living conditions. Also describe your required tasks. Feel free to add clip art to illustrate your journal entry.

Answer 1

In the morning with the first rays of the sun, the peasant woke up in his small house, which was in a small village consisting of 11 courtyards. A big friendly peasant family gathered at breakfast: A peasant with his wife, 4 daughters and 6 sons. Having prayed, they sat down for wooden benches. At breakfast, there were grains cooked in a pot, on a home hearth. After breakfast peasant should work to provide food to the knights and nobles.

Almost all the children of the peasant have already worked as adults. Only the youngest son, who barely passed 5 years, could only graze geese. The harvest was in full swing. All day peasant with his family worked in the field, making only one break for lunch. In the evening they came home very weary. After supper, the peasant helps his wife in feeding the pigs and milking the cow. After that, the peasant began to make barrels for water. After sunset, everyone went to bed. Mother and father on a wide wooden bed, children on benches at walls which have covered with hay. Tomorrow morning the peasant with his family was going to getting up early again and working hard again...