Can you write the summary of thr story packing by Jerome K. Jerome in 240 words?
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Summary
Character Sketch
• Jerome: He is the narrator of the story. He is very proud of on his packing so he decide to do the packing for holiday but his real intention is different. He wants his friends would do the packing and he supervise thier work. He feel irritated when he is working and other people are relaxing. However, he does the packing task but forgotten many things outside so he have to do the packing many times. He enjoys the packing of foods by his friends and make them feel irritated.
• Montmorency: He is a pet dog. He had an ambition in his life to get in the way and get scolded. He felt that his day was not been wasted if he had made people mad and had things thrown at his head. His highest aim was to get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour. He is disturbing George and Harris in packing work. He sat down on many things. He put his legs into the jam and scattered theteaspoons. He pretended that the lemons were rats.
Summary of the Chapter
Three friends George, Harris and Jerome, the narrator, decided to go on a Holiday. Jerome was very proud of his packing so he offered to do the packing task on which other two friends agreed. Both friends relaxed, but the narrator's intention was different. According to him, both would do packing task under his direction. The narrator hated other people relaxing while he was working. However, the narrator started packing and soon finished it.
Harris asked the narrator that he had put the boots in the package. The narrator searched and found he had forgotten. He opened the bag, put the boots and packed the boots. When he was going to close his bag a horrible idea came to his mind that had he packed his toothbrush! He turned everything. He found toothbrushes of George and Harris more than eighteen times but could not find out his toothbrush. He put the things back one by one. Then he found it inside a boot and packed the things once more.
After he finished packing, George asked if the soap was in. The narrator said that he didn't care about soap whether it was in bag or not. Again, he had to open the bag as he had packed his spectacles in it. The bag finally got finished at 10:05 p.m. Now, the hampers task remained to do which was taken by George and Harris on which narrator agreed.
Both started packing in cheerful nature showing narrator how to do. However, according to narrator they are worst packer in the world. The narrator could see the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles, and jars, and pies, and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, etc., and felt that the thing would soon become exciting. The narrator thinking was right as they started breaking the cup. Harris packed the strawberry jam on top of a tomato and squashed it. George stepped on the butter. The narrator came over and quietly sat on the edge of the table which irritated them as narrator felt. It made them nervous and excited. They couldn't able to find what they want. They packed the pies at the bottom and squashed them by putting heavy thing over them.
Both of them upset everything. George got the butter off his slipper and tried to put it in kettle, but it wouldn't go in and what was in wouldn't come out. At last, they dragged it out all and put it down the chair. Harris sat on it and butter stuck to him. The searched the whole room but couldn't able to find. Lastly, George got round at the back of Harris and saw it and they got it off, and packed it in the teapot.
Montmorency, pet dog had an ambition in his life to get in the way and get scolded. He felt that his day was not been wasted if he had made people mad and had things thrown at his head. His highest aim was to get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour. He came and sat down on things, just when they were wanted to be packed. He put his leg into the jam, and he worried
the teaspoons, and he pretended that the lemons were rats, and got into the hamper and killed three of them before Harris could land him with the frying-pan. Harris said it was the narrator who encouraged the dog to do these things.
The packing was done at 12.50. Harris said that he hoped nothing would be found broken. They decided to go to sleep. George asked when he should wake them. After little arguments they decided to wake up at 6:30.
The narrator feels that he knows the best packing. For impressing his friends George and Harris, he told them to leave the entire packing on him. Both friends agreed with a redefines. George put on pipe and spread himself over an easy chair and Harris cocked his legs on the table and lit a cigar. The narrator only wanted to instruct them and he wanted to be boss. It irritated the narrator seeing his friends sitting idle. When the narrator finished packing he sat on it and strapped it then Harris reminded him if the boots that he had forgotten outside. George laughed at this which made the narrator angry. The narrator packed boots in them the idea of toothbrush streak into his mind. Which he had already packed. His toothbrush always gave him trouble. Sometimes he would pack it before using and had to unpack the luggage. Sometimes he would have to carry to the railways station wrapped in his handkerchief. On that day also he had to do the same thing. He searched it everywhere but could not find. Although he found George and Harris's toothbrush several times. At last he found his own inside a boot. He repacked again. The narrator had to reopen the bag for his tobacco pouch finally it got packed at 10.05pm. Then Harris and George expressed their wish to pack the hampers. They began it with breaking of cups. Harris packed strawberry jam on top of the tomatoes and smashed it. George trod on the butter and put heavy things on tie and smashed it. George got the butter off his slippers and tried to put it inside the kettle. It would not go in and what was in wouldn't come out. They scrapped it and then put it on the chair. On which Harry sat and got it stuck behind. Both went looking for it all over the room. At last George saw it sticking behind Harris. Monterrey a dog had been anther trouble for them in packing. A dog feels his day has not been wasted if someone throws thing on his head and scolds him. He feels pride if people stumble over him and curse him for an hour. Monterrey got into the hampers; put his leg into the jam. He played with lemons with lemons as if they were rats; He soiled the lemons before Harris could put them into the pan. The narrator said I didn't encourage the dog because it’s quite natural and inborn quality of a dog. They had a bit of row over the walking time after the packing was done at 12.50. Harris and the narrator told George to wake them up at 6.30 but found George already asleep. They put bath tub where George could tumble into it in the morning and went to bed them.
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