Question

can I pls know the answers for these three men in a boat questions of chapter 16

Answer 1

1A. The story is mainly a travelogue, it is about the friendship and getting along with someone for a long time and how it is maintained.it also explains why some people have not lived up to their expectations.the men on the journey are on a physical, and emotional and psychological one. They are wondering why their lives have taken the path that they have.as the story goes on they become sick, but not necessarily physically, more of a broken spirit. Towards the end they begin to realize that their lives were not so terrible after all.

2A. they  mentioned that the now polluted and crowded Reading was once a popular destination for Londoners to escape the plague. They got a respite from rowing when an acquaintance with a steam-launcher helped them by towing their boat for miles. They saw the corpse of a woman floating in the water as they reached Goring. They took her to the coroner and found out that she had killed herself because she begot a child out of wedlock and her family abandoned her.

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