Question

After discovering that his wife has gone missing from the bicycle they were sharing, Mr. Harris returns "to where the road broke into four" and seems unable to remember where he has come from. Using what you know about Mr. Harris, write a narrative story that describes how he chooses which road to take and experiences he has on his return journey.

Be sure to use details from the passage in developing your narrative.

Answer 1

from Three Men on the Bummel

by Jerome K. Jerome

Harris, in his early married days, made much trouble for himself on one occasion, owing to this impossibility of knowing what the person behind is doing. He was riding with his wife through Holland. The roads were stony, and the machine [1] jumped a good deal.
“Sit tight,” said Harris, without turning his head.
What Mrs. Harris thought he said was, “Jump off.” Why she should have thought he said “Jump off,” when he said “Sit tight,” neither of them can explain.
Mrs. Harris puts it in this way, “If you had said, ‘Sit tight,’ why should I have jumped off?”
Harris puts it, “If I had wanted you to jump off, why should I have said ‘Sit tight!’?”
The bitterness is past, but they argue about the matter to this day.
Be the explanation what it may, however, nothing alters the fact that Mrs. Harris did jump off, while Harris pedalled away hard, under the impression she was still behind him. It appears that at first she thought he was riding up the hill merely to show off. They were both young in those days, and he used to do that sort of thing. She expected him to spring to earth on reaching the summit, and lean in a careless and graceful attitude against the machine, waiting for her. When, on the contrary, she saw him pass the summit and proceed rapidly down a long and steep incline, she was seized, first with surprise, secondly with indignation, and lastly with alarm. She ran to the top of the hill and shouted, but he never turned his head. She watched him disappear into a wood a mile and a half distant, and then sat down and cried. They had had a slight difference that morning, and she wondered if he had taken it seriously and intended desertion. She had no money; she knew no Dutch. People passed, and seemed sorry for her; she tried to make them understand what had happened. They gathered that she had lost something, but could not grasp what. They took her to the nearest village, and found a policeman for her. He concluded from her pantomime that some man had stolen her bicycle. They put the telegraph into operation, and discovered in a village four miles off an unfortunate boy riding a lady’s machine of an obsolete pattern. They brought him to her in a cart, but as she did not appear to want either him or his bicycle, they let him go again, and resigned themselves to bewilderment.
Meanwhile, Harris continued his ride with much enjoyment. It seemed to him that he had suddenly become a stronger, and in every way a more capable cyclist. Said he to what he thought was Mrs. Harris:
“I haven’t felt this machine so light for months. It’s this air, I think; it’s doing me good.”
Then he told her not to be afraid, and he would show her how fast he could go. He bent down over the handles, and put his heart into his work. The bicycle bounded over the road like a thing of life; farmhouses and churches, dogs and chickens came to him and passed. Old folks stood and gazed at him, the children cheered him.
In this way he sped merrily onward for about five miles. Then, as he explains it, the feeling began to grow upon him that something was wrong. He was not surprised at the silence; the wind was blowing strongly, and the machine was rattling a good deal. It was a sense of void that came upon him. He stretched out his hand behind him, and felt; there was nothing there but space. He jumped, or rather fell off, and looked back up the road; it stretched white and straight through the dark wood, and not a living soul could be seen upon it. He remounted, and rode back up the hill. In ten minutes he came to where the road broke into four; there he dismounted and tried to remember which fork he had come down.
12 While he was deliberating a man passed, sitting sideways on a horse. Harris stopped him, and explained to him that he had lost his wife. The man appeared to be neither surprised nor sorry for him. While they were talking, another farmer came along, to whom the first man explained the matter, not as an accident, but as a good story. What appeared to surprise the second man most was that Harris should be making a fuss about the thing.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

"write a narrative story that describes how he chooses which road to take and experiences he has on his return journey."

Have you done this?

Answer 5

I did once and i had a bad grade on it, i put my honest opinion on it and didn't go out well

Answer 6

Share that with me. As I don't know what else you were expecting..

Answer 7

It was about this guy wanting to go on a boat ride on the river with two of his closest friends and while on their way on their boat trip, they have fell into some severe troubles and it was challenging and takes a lot of sailing skills to keep the boat at bay on the river

Answer 8

"describes how he chooses which road to take"

You didn't do that.

describes "experiences he has on his return journey"

That is lacking as well.

Answer 9

Is 1-12 the entire story?

Answer 10

Yes, His experiences on hi journey was very challenging and took a lot of him to where he had to go and know how to ride a boat over the next direction and deciding which road to take to find where he came from.

Answer 11

There is no boat in this story.

Answer 12

Let me rephrase that, His experiences on his journey was very challenging and took a lot of him to where he had to go and know how to ride a bicycle over the next direction and deciding which road to take to find where he came from.

Answer 13

My mistake

Answer 14

That was just one of the flaws though. Your responses indicates that you have not read the reading, or that at least you do not understand the narrative it puts forth.

Answer 15

Now i see from the paragraphs so far

It is about three friends and a dog as they strive to relax and enjoy themselves while riding on a bicycle.

It was originally brings back three characters from a previous sequel called Three Men in a Boat, but this time these men are trying to go and relax but in this one is Middle-Class

Answer 16

"three friends and a dog"

For example, this indicates that you are just looking at the title, and guessing..

Answer 17

right

Answer 18

I only help users who are serious about learning. We've been on this for 30min. In that same time, if you had read it and noticed you just needed to look at this

" He remounted, and rode back up the hill. In ten minutes he came to where the road broke into four; there he dismounted and tried to remember which fork he had come down."

then section 12 for the return journey.

But you needed to have read everything previously in order to understand what is going on.

Answer 19

This lesson is teaching you critical thinking. But that means putting effort in. Let me know if you're willing to do that. I am not doing this for you.