Packing Summary in English
As 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.
Answer each question below
Question 1: How many characters are there in the narrative? Name them.
Answer: There are four characters in the story, viz. Jerome, George, Harris and the dog.
Question 2: Why did the narrator (Jerome) volunteer to do the packing?
Answer: Narrator was of the opinion that he was the best at packing.
Question 3: How did George and Harris react to this? Did Jerome like their reaction?
Answer: George and Harris agreed to Jerome, because they wanted to loaf around while Jerome would do the packing.
Question 4: What was Jerome’s real intention when he offered to pack?
Answer: Jerome’s real intention was to show off his talent at packing the things.
Question 5: What did Harris say after the bag was shut and strapped? Why do you think he waited till then to ask?
Answer: After the bag was shut and strapped Harris asked if Jerome forgot to pack the boot. He wanted to enjoy the irritation on Jerome’s face so he waited till last.
Question 6: What “horrible idea” occurred to Jerome a little later?
Answer: Jerome was not sure if he packed his toothbrush or not. In the past also Jerome has similar mishaps with packing or unpacking of toothbrush.
Question 7: Where did Jerome finally find the toothbrush?
Answer: After searching through everything Jerome found the toothbrush inside a boot.
Question 8: Why did Jerome have to reopen the packed bag?
Answer: After packing the bag Jerome realized that he packed his tobacco pouch inside, so he had to reopen it once again.
Question 9: What did George and Harris offer to pack and why?
Answer: George and Harris offered to pack the bag which would contain edible items. They also wanted to show off their packing skills.
Question 10: While packing the hamper, George and Harris do a number of foolish and funny things. Tick the statements that are true.
They started with breaking a cup.
They also broke a plate.
They squashed a tomato.
They trode on butter
They stepped on a banana.
They put things behind them, and couldn’t find them.
They stepped on things.
They packed the pictures at the bottom and put heavy things on top.
They upset almost everything.
They were very good at packing.
Answer: (i) Yes, (ii) No, (iii) Yes, (iv) Yes, (v) No, (vi) Yes, (vii) Yes, (viii) No, (ix) Yes, (x) No
Question 11: What does Jerome say was Montmorency’s ambition in life? What do you think of Montmorency and why?
Answer: Monmorency’s ambition in life was to disturb people and be sworn at in the bargain. It always made a mess of everything the way most of the pet dogs do while in a playful mood.
Answer the following questions in two or three paragraphs (100 –150 words)
Question 1: Of the three, Jerome, George and Harris, who do you think is the best or worst packer? Support your answer with details from the text.
Answer: In spite of forgetting certain things to pack or getting confused about some things, Jerome seems to be the best packer. He packs things the way they should be. He knows what to keep first and what to keep last. He doesn’t create a mess all around.
It is difficult to select the worst packer from Harris and George. Harris smashes tomato while packing the bottle of jam over it. George treads on butter and creates a mess all around. Then he tries to put it in the kettle. After this Harris sits on the butter kept on the chair. After the butter sticks to Harris’ behind both of them start searching for it.
They put lighter things at the bottom and heavier things at the top. This is like putting potatoes on top of tomatoes while shopping for vegetables.
Both George and Harris are equally horrendous in packing.
Question 2: Do you find this story funny? What are the humorous elements in it?
Answer: This is a really funny story but at the same time it can be from many people’s real life. To start with the language itself is humorous while depicting as mundane an activity as packing. Discovery of toothbrush inside a boot is funny. George stepping on butter is funny incident. The list can go on and on, like Harris sitting on butter, packing of jam over tomato, packing of heavier thing over lighter things. The disturbance by the dog brings its own amount of fun in the story. Even in the end their argument about exact wakeup time is also full of humour.
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