Analysis an Extract “Three Men in a Boat”.
...orous one. 3) It is only an extract but we can evaluate it as one having a skillfully developed, interesting and dinamic plot. 4) The passege is set in with the descrybing of the place. We can define the setting with the help of such description as: “it is the most fairy-like nook”, “every house is smothered in roses”, “they were bursting forth in clouds of dainty splender”. “Bull” is a veritable picture of an old country inn with a green, square courtyard in front, with low quaint rooms and latticed windows and awkward stairs and winding passeges. The description of the rest of the text is rather calm and unvivid. The time of the action is the beginning of the 20th century, we know it from the whole text. 5) The text under study presents a pice of narration, it is intercepted with dialogues. It is a first-person narration. The events are given throug the narrator’s eyes and emotions. 6) The dominant tone of the passege is rather pathetic, but the reader feels the humour of the writer. In the exposition writer gives us a very picturesque description of the place, which establish the atmosphere of the chapter. So all the events seems to him rather usual, and that makes the situation more humorous. The imitting is their cooking supper. They put there a lot off different kinds of provision, even wanted to add there a water-rat. The climex of the story is their tasting the supper. The reader waites for the changing of their mood, as the result could be strange at least. But the general slant of the release is even more poetic, the narrator said that it was a great success, that Irish stew, and the gravy was a poem. 7) With sparkling humour Jerome K. Jerome critisized the weak sides of human nature. The author vividly shows us how funny the situation was, describing an absurd, funny situation as something usual. To give the reader a petty good idea what kind of person the characters are the author uses indirect characterization. For example, Harris seems to us a very inquisitive person, because he wasn’t against experiments. The author’s treatment of human relationsh...