What do we come to know about the three friends from their attempts to open the pineapple tin ?
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The incident of opening the pineapple tin is one of the most humorous incident in the novel.
All the three men were very fond of pineapple . George draws out a tin of pineapple . But they do not have a knife to open it. From a pair of scissors to a sharp stone, they use everything in handy, but the tin does not open. It batters into such a shape that it ultimately shows a ‘mocking grin ‘.
Harris throws it far into the middle of the river in frustration.
The pineapple incident happened on the Monkey Island. As they readied themselves for lunch, they found they had forgotten to bring mustard. However, George fished out a pineapple tin from a hamper, which made the three friends quite happy. They faced another problem as they realized they had no tin opener with them. They thought they might be having a tin opener; so they ransacked all their hampers, bags, etc.; they could not find the tin opener either. Then Harris tried to open the tin with his pocket knife unsuccessfully, injuring himself. Then George tried to open it using a pair of scissors, almost injuring his eye. The narrator also tried to open the tin using ahitcher; but the hitcher slipped and threw him out between the boat and the bank into two feet of muddy water, and the tin rolled over, uninjured, and broke a teacup. Thus each friend tries to open the tin using all the improvisations they could think of, but to no avail. Finally they had to throw the tin into the river.