The Graceland Tales - An Introduction to the assignment

For this assignment you will write three short stories that are part of a larger frame story: a short piece of a general  prologue (the entire class will add all their pieces together), your character’s prologue, and your character’s tale.  Unlike the travelers in The Canterbury Tales, your pilgrims are going to Graceland to pay homage at Elvis’s tomb. Remember, just as all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales were not pious with pure motives to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas à Beckett, your pilgrim can have her own motives for going on the trip as well.  In