THE ADDRESS

-Margo Minco
• About the author
 OBJECTIVES

• To develop comprehension skill

• To develop analytical thinking to
• Broaden outlook
• Too enable the students to learn
good values
 METHODOLOGY
• Silent reading
• Loud model reading
• Group discussion
• Debate
 TEACHING AIDS
• PowerPoint presentation
• Similar stories from internet
for reference
 INTRODUCTION
• The address is A story of human predicament that follow
the war. It gives A poignant account of A daughter who
goes to her native place in hall and in search of her
mothers belongings after the war . on the way she does
not pay much attention to the things around as she does
not want to upset herself with the sigh of streets and
houses full of memories of good old days . she does find
her mother ‘S belongings. The objects evoke memories
of her when she finds them in strange surroundings . she
decides to leave it all behind and resolves to move on.
 SUMMARY
• A cold reception: the narrator went to her native place in hall
and after the war in search of her mother’s belongings . She
rang the fell of house no. 46 in Marconi street. A women
opened the door a chinked and looked at her searchingly .
The narrator came closer and introduced herself that she was
Mrs. S’s daughter. The women kept staring at her in silence .
there was no sign of recognition on her face. The narrator
thought perhaps she was mistaken . But she was the women
was wearing her mother’s green kitted cardigan. She knew at
once that she had made no mistake . She asked the women
whether she knew her mother .
The women can not deny this . she said have you
come back ?I thought that no one had come the

Narrator said that she along had come there

specially to talk for her a moment . the woman
regretted that she could not do anything for her . she
asked the narrator to come some other time and
cautiously closed the door as if come some other
time and cautiously closed the door as if she did not
want somebody inside the house to be disturbed the
narrator stood on the step for a while . she read the
name plate : darling number 46 then she left the
place.
 MEMORIES OF HER
FORMER DAY
• As the narrator walked slowly back to the station she was
lost in the memories of days game by . she was home for
a few days . she noticed that something or other about the
rooms changed and various things were missing then her
mother told her about Mrs. Dorling . she was an old
acquaintance of the narrator ‘s mother . the next day the
narrator saw Mrs. Dorling going out of their house with a
heavy suitcase . she had a fleeting glimpse of Mrs.
Dorling she asked her mother had told the address
:number 46 Marconi street . the narrator had remembered
it then , the war ended.
The second visit : The narrator first visit to Mrs.
Dorling house was in vain. She decided to try a second
time . this time a girl of about fifteen opened

The door her mother was not at home .The narrator said that she
would wait for her . the girl took her along the passage . the narrator
saw an old fashioned iron candle holder – hanging next to a mirror .
they never used it because it was much heavier than a candle stick .
the woolen table cloth. The cups, the white tea pot with a gold
forded on the lid . the spoons , the pewter plate everything painfully
reminded her of life. Suddenly the objects that were linked in her
memory with the familiar life of former times lost this value . in
strange surrounding, they too appeared strange. She no longer had
desire to possess them. She thought that she would do with them in
her small rented room. She got up walked to the door and left the
room. She resolved to forget the address and moved on.
 INFERENCE
• Students developed ability to comprehend the
passage.
• Student learnt scheming and scanning to
understand the main idea of the passage
• Student developed systematic vocabulary
development .
• Student understood implicit &explicit passage
• Student improved speed in reading
 VOCABULARY
• Chink-peephole • Beckon-make Sign To
• Absolutely – Completely Anyone
• Fleetingly –Momentarily • Endure-bear
• Convenient-suitable • Curious-anxious
• Cautiously-carefully • Hanukkahs-the Feasts
• Jamb-side Post Of Door Of Light
• Acquaintance-known To • Oppress-trouble
Someone • Intently-earnestly
• Fancy -Imaginary • Severed-separated
 VOCABULARY
• Karigadabu-south Indian • Assess- Estimate
Fried Sweet Filled With • Pleasantries-jokes
Coconut &Sugar • Troupe-company Of
• Speak Glowingly –Prise Performer
• Annayya-a Respectful Term • Threshold-entrance
For An Elder
• Abruptly-suddenly
• Flea Pestered –Annoyed By
• Glanced-looked Quickly
Flea
• Decade- A Period Of 10 • Embarrassed- Upset
Years • Vow- Take A pledge
• Suspecion -Doubt • Shriveled-contradict
 VOCABULARY
• Shriveled –Contracted
• Paraphernalia-personal Equipment
• Indicated-signed
• Bear Fruit- To Be Successful
• Madavacharya-an Exponent Of Vedanta
Philosophy From South India
 HOME ASSIGNMENT
1. Have you came back? Said the women. “I
thought that no one had come back”? Does this
statement give some clues about the story ? if
yes , what is it.
2. Why did the narrator of the story want to forget
the address?
3. The address is the story of human predicament
that follows war. Comment.
4. The story ,”the address” is divided into pre-war
and post war times. What according to you the
hardship-the girl underwent during these time?.
 SHORT ANSWERS QUESTION

 Why did the narrator of the story want to

forget the address ?
 How did the narrator of the story “the address”
come to know that the cutlery was silver?
 What do you think Mrs. Dorling knowingly
refused to recognize the narrator when they
meet years after?
 Why did the narrator go to the number
46,marconi street?
 “The war cause a lot of trauma "how is this
statement true with respect to the story of “the
address”?
 How did the women try to avoid the narrator?