2. The Address 1.pptx

This PPT is all about the lesson The Address class 11

1. PRESENTED BY – A EVY DARLING PGT ENGLISH JNV THRISSUR, KERALA THE ADDRESS BY-MARGA MINCO

2. ABOUT THE WRITER Marga Minco ( pseudonym of Sara menco , born 31 March 1920) is a Dutch journalist and writer. Her real surname was Menco, but an official accidentally switched the first vowel. Her stories revolved around existential problems often faced by survivors

3. PRE-LIBERATION WAR TIMES

4. CHARACTERS OF THE STORY Narrator- Marga Minco. Mrs.'s- Suzanne/Susannah. Mrs. Dorling. Mrs. Dorling’s daughter.

5. IMPORTANCE OF ADDRESS Reveals a persons location of stay(permanent/Temporary). It marks an identity clear for an individual. Distinctively marks ones social identity. Address marks ones citizenship legally .

6. BACKGROUND OF THE STORY Margo Minco – The narrator She was a girl of nearly seventeen years old. Her family was Jewish and Hitler was planning to kill all Jewish in Germany, Holland , Austria. Probably she was away from home .

7. STORY BEGINS Do you still know me? ‘No , I don’t know you’. She kept staring at me in silence. Probably I had rung the wrong bell. She was wearing my mothers Green Knitted Cardigan. I know I was in the right address.

8. WRITER INTRODUCES HERSELF Mrs.DORLING’S DENIAL. WRITER GETS ASSURANCE Mrs. S’s daughter visits 46, Marconi street The narrator visits 46,Macroni street pressed the bell. A women opened the door and looked at her searchingly - No sign of recognition. The writer thought she was mistaken. It was most probable that she had rung the wrong bell. The woman was wearing her mother’s Green Knitted Cardigan . This made the writer understand that she was in the right place.

9. MRS DORLING'S ADDRESS Mrs. Dorling Number 46 Marconi street

10. THE WRITER ENSURES THE ADDRESS The narrator Iooked at the name-plate again. Dorling it said, in black letters on white enamel. And on the jamb, a bit higher, the number. Number 46 .

11. PART –II THE NARRATOR RECOLLECTS MR’S DORLINGS VISIT TO HER MOTHER ‘Every time she leaves here she take something home’ She took all the table silver in one go Each time she goes out of our door with this full suitcase or a bag. ‘She wanted to save all my Nice Things’ - said the mother.

12. NARRATOR’S QUERY – MOTHERS REPLY ‘ Have you agreed with her she should keep everything?’ I asked. ‘As if that is necessary’, my mother cried. Think about the risk she is running. Each time she goes out of our door with this full suitcase or a bag .

13. SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Gradually everything became normal again. Bread Was getting to be lighter colour , there was a bed you could sleep in unthreatened, a room with a view you were more used to glancing at each day.

14. SECOND VISIT Mrs. Dorling was on an errand .The narrator meets the daughter Mrs. Dorling. The daughter invites her, offers tea. The writer sees her table cloth, white teapot with gold line, and sees her cutlery box . Her voice tells her ‘ It’s a nice box’.

15. I WAS IN A ROOM I KNEW AND DID NOT KNOW The narrator’s articles were arranged in distasteful manner ,The special value was lost. Mrs. Dorling declines to return it. The writer found herself in the mist of things she wanted to see again. But it oppressed her ion the strange atmosphere

16. NARRATOR DECIDES TO FORGET THE ADDRESS Of all the Nicest things I can do is to forget the address. Forgetting is forgiving. Forgiving is a noble virtue.

17. THE NARRATOR’S RESOLUTION Forgetting the address is totally forgiving the person. Forgiving the person means having the noble virtue to forget every situation attached with her. This means she would never think of those ‘Nice Things’, that are linked in memory with the familiar life of former times. The writer resolved to start a new life.

18. MEANING OF DIFFICULT WORDS PAGE NO -10 Poignant – Pathetic Evoke – Arouse Searchingly – Viewed doubtfully Prevent – Stop Fleetingly – For a moment Musty – Damp smell Convenient – Comfortable Antique – Old fashioned precious Things

19. Page No -12 Acquaintance – Familiar/known Crick – Muscle problem Convinced – Assured Beckoned – Motioned, Signalled Nodded – Shook the head Doing an errand – Going out on a purpose

20. Page No – 13 Scarcely – Hardly Cumbersome – Burden Oppressed – Troubled, Loaded heavily Pattern – Design

21. Page No – 14-15 Cutlery – Knives fork and spoon Jingling – Metallic sound Severed – Separated Shreds – Small pieces THE END