Skip to main content

Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture




The short story ‘Uncle Podge Hangs a Picture’ is full of comic incidents which is adopted from 'Three Men in a Boat' and  written by Jerome K. Jerome. The story revolves around Uncle Podger, who tries to hangs a picture on wall, from that activity he makes readers laugh. He thinks himself to full of ability and skills, he can do any sort of job, but in reality he involves his family members to do such job. 


Uncle Podger assigns some work to all the family members and asks them to do it with maximum efficiency. He creates whole mess and he blames Aunt Maria to be responsible for creating the fuss. Uncle Podger is the kind of person who annoyed everyone around him. They all know his capabilities, even if he doesn’t. He may mean well, and he may mean to be helpful, but all he will do is to cause more problems.




Comments

  1. http://jethavashaban2002.blogspot.com/2021/01/uncle-podger.html

    ReplyDelete
  2. http://jaybhutaiya.blogspot.com/2021/01/uncle-podger-hangs-picture.html

    ReplyDelete
  3. https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5851690035853150544/7835524631699619029

    ReplyDelete
  4. https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5851690035853150544/7835524631699619029

    ReplyDelete
  5. https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5851690035853150544/7835524631699619029

    ReplyDelete
  6. https://vhchauhan.blogspot.com/2021/01/vhchauhan.html?m=1

    ReplyDelete
  7. https://bavalvajaydip.blogspot.com/2021/01/uncle-podger-hangs-picture-jerome-k.html

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Structuralism and Literary Criticism: Gerard Genette

Thinking activity: Structuralism and Literary Criticism ➧  Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or Film? You can select any image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement. Apply structuralist method and post your write up on your blog. Give link of that blog-post in the comment section under this blog. In literary theory , structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure. For example:-  A literary critics should apply one type of pattern or structure in their writings. They don't applying something new or we can say something unique in their writings.  Like  Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In both texts a girl and a boy fall in love (a "formula" with a symbolic operator between them would be "Boy + Girl") despite the fact that they belong to two groups that hate each other ("Boy's Group - Girl's Group...

Movie review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist As a part of academics, we have seen this movie. 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' novel written by Mohsin Hamid and directed by Mira Nair. It is about attack of 9/11, how it changes opinion towards the man, who are relatedly innocent. It symbolises the postcolonial aspects, Americans are doubted on ones dignity, morality. It also includes how market fundamentalism plays a vital role. It speaks fundamental truths. It begins with kidnapping of one American, and whole plot is based on the interview of one Pakistani citizen Changez Khan, the  interview was taken by Bobby Lincoln. Changez  Khan is main suspect of the entire fiction. It is a frame narration, 'story within story'. Changez goes to America for doing job after completing his study. Everything was very nice until the attack, he got promotion, everyone was his friend, he had one girlfriend also, it seems like everything was so good, but after attack of 9/11 everything was cha...