The chapter describes the three men getting lost in the Hampton Court maze after Harris attempts to guide a group through it. It details their failed attempts to navigate until they finally call an experienced maze keeper who rescues them. The story highlights the humorous misadventures and mistakes of the three men on their boating trip.

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2. • This is a humorous novel with comical characters
adding to the humor in the story.
• It is a story about how three men, fed up of their
busy and hectic life, take a break by going on a
boating vacation.
• The author tried to serve this book as a guide to
those who are planning to go on a boat journey.
He was successful in doing this
• The three have created chaos and humor in order
to catch the interest of the readers.
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3. 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 boating
holiday on the Thames between Kingston and
Oxford.
One of the most praised things about Three Men in
a Boat is how undated it appears to modern
readers – the jokes seem fresh and witty even
today
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4. • The story is based on three men who plan to go
on a boat journey.
• They make messy arrangements and set-off
• They face many problems and bring them up with
some nostalgic memories.
• The three men enjoy the journey and finally
reach home
We are going to concentrate on Chapter 6 of novel
which we have entitled ‘Hampton and Harris’
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5. •Jerome: He is the one who has authored the book. He, throughout the story he
has often acted dumb but his romantic descriptions of places with regard to their
culture , history , food are extremely amiable and praiseworthy .
•Harris: Harris is just another guy who is perplexed all the time. The author once
described him as a person with no emotions as he suggests that Harris can never
understand emotions but always thinks of a nice place to have the finest of all
drinks. He is perfect at creating chaos and has made the novel interesting
•George: He is the lazy man of the story who would be glad and jolly if given an
opportunity to have a sound sleep for a day. Readers are made cognizant with his
indolence when the author tells how Harris would wake him up at 2:00 pm on
Saturdays while on other days he tends to sleep till 4.
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7. • The chapter begins with the author describing
about the history of Kingston.
• Then he started explaining us about his studious
classmate, Stivvings, who used to fall ill thrice a
week.
• Harris, who was rowing the boat till now, threw
away the sculls and sat on his back and stuck his
legs in the air which was followed by a howl and a
somersault from Montmorency leading to an
upturn in hamper and spreading out of all items!
And it was now the authors turn to row the boat.
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8. Then, Harris showed off his navigation-skills at
the Hampton Court Maze. Seeing his confidence
twenty more people followed him, but he could
not get them out of the maze. Harris suggested
the infuriated people to go back to the
beginning and in this process they reached the
center of the maze and couldn’t get out. They
finally called a keeper new to the business.
When he came to ‘rescue’ them, he himself got
lost and they had to wait for the older keepers
to finish their dinner and get them out of the
maze.
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10. FAQs
VALUE BASED
1. IN THE STORY JEROME TELLS HOW HE USED TO
TRY SEVERAL MEASURES TO MAKE HIMSELF ILL
IN ORDER TO GET RID OF SCHOOL.INSTEAD HE
SPOILS HIS HOLIDAYS. WHAT DO WE LEARN
FROM THIS ACT OF JEROME
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OUT THE ANSWERS

11. SHORT ANSWER FAQs
1. Who guided the people through the maze?
2. How did the lady get to know that the whole troop
had revolved around the maze and reached the same
spot?
3. Why did the first keeper get lost himself?
4. How did they finally get out of the maze?
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OUT THE ANSWERS

12. ANSWERS
VALUE BASED
1. JEROME’S DISCUSSED ACT WAS MORALLY
INCORRECT. THIS IN TURN , MADE HIM REPENT
BY GETTING HIS HOLIDAYS SPOILT. THIS
CONVEYS THE MESSAGE THAT WE HAVE TO REAP
WHAT WE HAVE SOWN HENCE WE MUST BE
VERY CAREFUL ABOUT EVERY ACY WE DO

13. Answers to Short Answer Qs.
1. Harris guided the people through the maze.
2. The lady had thrown a bun on the ground and the
troop, after roaming aimlessly, reached that
particular spot.
3. The first keeper was new to the business. So he
forgot the way out himself!
4. They waited for an experienced keeper to come back
from supper and he rescued them out.
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ERR… WHAT WAS
THE QUESTION
AGAIN?!

14. Our group members, on reading chapter six of the novel did
unanimously agree that it was indeed a hilarious piece of writing.
Some of our members who avidly read the book also found out that
out of every conversation one of them had an experience related to
the subject matter of the conversation making it easier for the readers
to effortlessly relate to their conversation . The much popular novel
has also received criticism from our members. They said that
sometimes the humor gets unwanted which distracts the readers.
However, if one part seems highly interesting, other parts will
obviously seem inferior.
As we saw that the three friends were brought closer to each other by
discussions, negotiations and arguments. Similarly, we should make
closer friends by interacting with them and spending time with them.
We would like to conclude by saying that this novel is stupendous
enough to catch the interest of young readers. 14

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