Summary of packing for the journey
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Jerome, Harris, and George are ready to set out on
a journey, they start packing for it. Being the
narrator, Jerome describes how the packing
experience went. We can see that Jerome is quite
confident with his packing skills as he handles it
all alone. While in reality, he wishes to simply
supervise the packing session while making his
friends do the work under him. However, they
listen to him and let him handle it all by himself,
while they sit and relax. This does not impress
Jerome; nonetheless, he gets to it.
Finally, after a long packing session, he packs the
bag up while his friends watch him quietly do all
the work. Soon, Harris tells him about the shoes
that he did not pack and Jerome will have to
reopen the bag to make space for them. Thus, after
learning about the shoes, Jerome remembers his
toothbrush which he did not pack. In order to find
it, he empties the whole just for one toothbrush.
Alas, he finds it inside a boot and packs the bag
again.
After that, we see that one more query arises for
the soap by George. Consequently, this irritates
Jerome so much that he does not pay heed to it and packs the bag anyway. However, to his
mistake, he has to reopen it again due to his
spectacles being locked inside the bag. This
packing session finally concludes at 10 o’clock.
So, we see that after taking such a long time to
pack, Jerome’s other two friends pack the
hampers themselves to show him how it’s actually
done. However, they are also similarly gawky and
break many things including a cup into pieces.
Further, they squash tomatoes and tread on butter
while also smashing the pies. In addition, there is
salt flying here and there during this process.
Thus, after much chaos, they try to put things
back in order.
However, it is not as successful as their pet dog,
Montmorency, worsen things. He sits on things
meant to be packed and climbs into the jam as well
as crushes lemons as if they were rats. But, finally,
the final packing ends at around 12:50 in the
night. After a tiring packing session, they decide
the time to get up for the next morning and George
dozes off before engaging in this conversation. In
the end, Jerome and Harris mark 6:30 as the
wake-up time and go off to sleep.