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who is uncle podger..?

A funny character carved out by the author, Uncle Podger is J’s uncle. J believes that the habits of Harris and his uncle are quite similar.

Uncle Podger is a messy and forgetful being. Like Harris, Uncle Podger too takes charge of a task only to delegate it to people around him and later blame its failure on them. Uncle Podger engages everyone present in the house to get him things he required to hang a picture on the wall. He asks them to hold the chair, lift the picture, search for his coat etc. Though everybody runs from one corner to the other and follow his instructions, he still taunts them and shouts at them. Even for nailing a nail in the wall, he would take hours and still mess things up. Thus, his account in the book is highly amusing and one of the most memorable one. The description of commotion that he creates in the house in order to get a trivial task done is really funny.

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Uncle Podger is a character in Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. There is an extract when Uncle Podger makes an effort to hang a picture on a wall . The author describes Uncle Podger's sarcastic nature & the way he taunts his family members. Uncle Podger is very messy and forgetful.He takes up a lot of responsibilities on his shoulders.But, at the end of the day,he messes it up always and after a long long time, he finally completes his promise. he thinks he is the only one who knows everything but the truth is something else. he engages everyone in the house with one or the other thing n himself relaxes. the work that takes less than an hour when taken up by uncle podger takes a whole day n at the end at midnight would be done with everyone tired. His character resembles to Harris's.

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