Questions of THREE MAN ON A BOAT chapter 1 1. ' i had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man, i crawled out a decrepit wreck. ' do you sympathize with Jerome after reading this statement? why/why not? 2. 'george fancies that he is ill; but there's never anything really the matter with him, you know. ' why is this statement amusing? explain with unstance to substantiate your view. 3. when jerome becomes poetically lyrical e is brought back to reality rather rudely. is there any such instance in the story? describe in your own words. 4. jerome describe his friend 's exprience of a miserable sea-voyage. this is more amusing than distressing. what makrs the description funny? pick out words, phrases and sentences to substantiate your answer. 5. explain montmorency 's objection to the boat trip. do you think they are valid?
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1. Jerome sounds like a hypochondriac in the book. As soon as he reads about the symptoms of an illness he feels that he has got these symptoms and so he sure is ailing. One day he went to the British museum's reading room to look up the details of hay fever because he was almost sure that he was suffering from it. Then he ideally turned to the other pages and read about the symptoms of all the diseases starting from A to Z. He felt sure that the only disease he was not suffering from was 'housemaid's knee'. When he went into the reading room he suspected only of hay fever but now he was sure that he was suffering from a lot more illnesses. The reader finds it funny and feels sympathy for the narrator's foolish attitude.
2. This statement strikes the reader as amusing because Jerome is the one who imagines he has all the diseases under the sun. Thus this statement is like the pot calling the kettle black.
3. When they were planning a boat journey Jerome immediately went into an imaginary world in which he was thinking of the idyllic situations they would experience while on the journey. But he was rudely brought down by Harris when he asked what they would do if it rained.
4. His friend went on a short voyage, expecting to feel good about it. On the recommendation of the steward he settled for a food package of two-pound-five. But soon he began to be sea sick and could not eat anything. On the last day he could eat but by then the voyage was at an end and he had lost his money paid as a package. He felt that 'he had been eating nothing but boiled beef for weeks' and at other times he felt that 'he must have been living on strawberries'. When at last the ship left him on the shore and sailed away, he felt 'there she goes with two pound worth of food that belonged to me'.
5. According to Monrmorency he did not like it because he has nothing to do on board and he does not enjoy scenery. He cannot catch a rat as they are in a boat and they would not stop for him to do so. He fears that if he sleeps they may chuck him overboard. These are valid as far as a dog is concerned but to a human being they are all very trivial.
2. This statement strikes the reader as amusing because Jerome is the one who imagines he has all the diseases under the sun. Thus this statement is like the pot calling the kettle black.
3. When they were planning a boat journey Jerome immediately went into an imaginary world in which he was thinking of the idyllic situations they would experience while on the journey. But he was rudely brought down by Harris when he asked what they would do if it rained.
4. His friend went on a short voyage, expecting to feel good about it. On the recommendation of the steward he settled for a food package of two-pound-five. But soon he began to be sea sick and could not eat anything. On the last day he could eat but by then the voyage was at an end and he had lost his money paid as a package. He felt that 'he had been eating nothing but boiled beef for weeks' and at other times he felt that 'he must have been living on strawberries'. When at last the ship left him on the shore and sailed away, he felt 'there she goes with two pound worth of food that belonged to me'.
5. According to Monrmorency he did not like it because he has nothing to do on board and he does not enjoy scenery. He cannot catch a rat as they are in a boat and they would not stop for him to do so. He fears that if he sleeps they may chuck him overboard. These are valid as far as a dog is concerned but to a human being they are all very trivial.
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