This is a PPT on the Book three men in a boat - Jerome K Jerome. With detailed analysis on the plot of the book. This is a CBSE assignment for 9th Grade.

1. English assignment FA-4
By- Oakridge International School-
Newton Campus

2. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the
Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account
by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-
week boating holiday on
the Thames from Kingston upon
Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston.

3. Chapter 11 begins with George telling J. a story about
how he forgot to wind his watch before bed and
ended up waking up at 3 in the morning. This
aroused the suspicion of the police constables who
found him walking around London in the wee
hours of the morning. J., George and Harris went
for a morning swim and later Harris, who had no
idea how to make scrambled eggs, tried his hand
at it and failed miserably. They later arrive at
Magna Carta island and J. mused about being a
peasant at the time when King John signed the
Magna Carta.

4. In Chapter 12, the men passed through Picnic Point where King
Henry was known to have courted Anne Boleyn. J. spoke
about the predicament of the locals who must have had a
hard time giving privacy to the couple. He later added that
it is indeed awkward walking in on couples who were
“spooning”. They passed through the place where Earl
Godwin was known to have choked after being accused of
Edward the confessor’s brother’s murder. They finally came
across a boy who offered them a place to stay in and they
were grateful for it. After having forgotten the mustard at
home, the trio settled for a can for pineapple to eat with
lunch. They soon gave up after unsuccessfully trying to
open the can. They passed by three old men fishing who
cursed them because Harris’ poor steering disturbs the
water. The friends decided to stay at an inn in Marlow that
night.

5. In Chapter 13, the trio passed through Marlow,
Bisham Alley and Medemenham where they came
across an abbey where an order of prodigious
monks once lived. During lunch, Montmorency
got intimidated by a cat and its menacing stare.
They stocked up on food in Marlow but they
found it difficult to leave due to the large number
of steam-launches in the water. Faced with a water
shortage, the trio pondered about drinking the
river water. They eventually ended up drinking
some water from a nearby cottage which they
thought was from the river as well. The day ended
comically with Harris falling off the edge of a
gulch and J and George thinking he was dead.

6. In Chapter 14, the men make Irish strew but they ended up
over-peeling the potatoes. Montmorency caught a water rat
which he thought could be added to the stew but the men
declined. The stew turned out to be delicious. Startled by the
tea-kettle, Montmorency attacked it. George’s dismal banjo
playing was accompanied by Montmorency’s howling. This
prompted the others to request him to never play again. It
was mentioned that George was forced to have sold his
banjo due to complaints from his landlady and the
passersby. After a night out, George and J. forgot where the
boat was docked. Eventually they followed Montmorency’s
barks and found the boat. Harris narrated an incident where
he single-handedly fought of a swarm of aggressive swans
whose nest they disturbed.

7. In Chapter 15, the friends discussed who will tow the boat since
it is the most strenuous job. They rowed the boat to Reading
where J. would tow it for a while. Since J. had had some
experience in rowing, he named the different types of
rowing a boat as well as the common mistakes people make
when they try rowing for the first time. He described
punting as a type of rowing where the passenger propels the
boat in the right direction pushing a long pole into the
riverbed. He then warned them about the hazards of
punting by recounting a story of a friend who was left
clinging to the pole as the boat drifted away. He also
mentioned another occasion when he and his friends
heckled an amateur punter mistaking him for someone they
knew. Harris added by narrating an incident where he held
a person’s head under water thinking he was a friend. The
chapter ends with J sharing another anecdote involving his
friend Hector.

8. The men approach Reading in Chapter 16. J.
mentioned that the now polluted and crowded
Reading was once a popular destination for
Londoners to escape the plague. They got a
respite from rowing when an acquaintance
with a steam-launcher helped them by towing
their boat for miles. They saw the corpse of a
woman floating in the water as they reached
Goring. They took her to the coroner and found
out that she had killed herself because she
begot a child out of wedlock and her family
abandoned her.

9. In Chapter 17, the men tried doing their laundry by
washing their clothes in the river but they ended up
making them even dirtier than before. They readily pay
a washerwoman who charged three times the normal
rate to wash their clothes since they were so dirty.
Later, J. emphasized on the importance of lying about
one’s fishing prowess. George and J. go to a pub in
Wallingford. Three patrons tried to take credit for a
large trout hanging on the wall. Each had his own
story and an estimation of its weight. Their lie was
exposed when George grabbed on to the trout to stop
himself from tripping and ended up displacing it. It fell
on the ground and shattered into pieces. It is then
revealed that the fish was made of plaster of Paris.

10. Chapter 18, starts with J.’s discussion of the
Thames without “its flower-decked locks”. He
narrated another anecdote involving him and
George in Hampton Court where a
photographer took pictures of a steam-launch.
He called out to the duo to stay away from the
frame. In an attempt to keep their boat out of
the frame, both fell with their feet up in the air.
Their feet took up nine-tenths of the image and
the annoyed owner of the steam-launcher
refused to foot the bill.

11. In the 19th Chapter, the trio went to Oxford. Montmorency also
regaled himself by fighting with the other stray dogs. J. explained
the logic behind why some people who vacation on the Thames
start from Oxford and move down to London. It helped their
boats to move along with the current. He said that the boats in
Oxford are too bad to be rented hence it is important to bring
one’s own boat. He recounted when he had once mistaken an
Oxford boat for an ancient artifact. The incessant rains ruined their
journey back from Oxford. They pass their time by playing penny
nap and listening to George playing the banjo. Though he was
ridiculed for his banjo-playing skills in a previous chapter, George
rendered a mournful tune of “Two lovely black eyes”. This caused
the other two to be more depressed. They aborted their trip and
retired into an inn in Pangbourne where they regaled the guests
with their adventures and misadventures from the trip. In the end,
they raised a toast their decision to abandon the trip.
Montmorency barked in order to concede with the three.