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Mar 31, 2017 11:24 AM 13034 Views

Three Men In A Boat, written by Jerome K. Jerome is a good example that writers attempt to make comedy as well.


It consists of 4 major characters Jim(writer), Harris, Gorge and the dog Montmorency.


All the three men are very funny. The writer is a hypochondriac and believes that he suffers from every single disease except the housemaid's knee when he encounters a medical encyclopedia. he was proud about is dressing style, and was very ostentatious and condescending towards his friends. He felt that he was the best among his friends and others also have the same attitude. He is a nature lover, poetic in nature and is not at all practical. He and Harris were very finicky which is evident from the incident when they were searching for a place to stay over night. Two paces were rejected by them because one of them didn't have any honeysuckle and in the other they didn't like the man with red hair. They ended up encountering the fact that those two places were the only two inns in that place and now they were occupied.


Harris was also a hypochondriac and felt that he suffers from attacks of giddiness. He used drink a lot. He felt that he was a very good cook till the time he took responsibility of cooking scrambled eggs. First he had some problem in placing the eggs on the pan and managed to place half a dozen in it, ruining his outfit. Whenever he went near the pan he burnt his fingers and danced around, Jim was silly enough to consider it as an integral part of cooking, The result was a spoon full of burnt.


George was the laziest of all and obviously a better cook as compared to Harris, we can say this as the Irish Stew was quite successful. He had a reason for not getting up early in the morning. One day his watch was stuck at 8:15 and he had forgotten to wind his watch up. He woke up at 3 and saw his watch showing 8:15 and realized that it was late. so he didn't wait for the water to be warm, he bathed with cold water and went down if there was any breakfast. But Mrs. G. was still asleep and termed her as lazy and decided to contact her in the evening. He left for office and found it very dark, and thought that it was about to rain and the shops were not open for the same reason. Then he encountered 3 policemen who suspected him to be a criminal. He got to know about the time and was sent back home. He was bored while sitting as he didn't felt like doing anything and so he decided to go for a walk. Then the policemen thought that he was drunk and so he was sent back home again. By then he decided to not to wake up early.


Montmorency was a fox-terrier and was a very rowdy dog and didn't peaceful environments. He was very ferocious and hated cats, whenever he encountered a cat he used to chase him, and once he had also killed a cat and many chickens. Later in the story he started avoiding cats as one day, he saw a black tom cat and chased him. But the cat didn't show any reaction. There was a mute conversation among them and Montmorency without causing any harm came back insulted. By then he avoided chasing cats.


It is very humorous, but this generation won't like it much.


According to the time when it was written, it is very good.


But current readers will find a big generartion gap in it


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