The original 13 colonies are examples of settler colonies. The reason the exemplify settler colonies is that immigrants from Great Britain and Western Europe moved to the Americas as colonists and settled the land which built new communities and led to the growth of new settlements. The colonists traveled to the original colonies and largely stayed building a new life which exemplifies the behavior of a settler colony.
It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury.