CBSE Class 11 · English · Hornbill / Snapshots
The Address
Chapter summary, hard words and model exam answers for Class 11 English.
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About the author
Marga Minco. After war, the narrator visits Mrs Dorling to reclaim her mother's belongings - painful objects in a strange room make her leave without taking anything.
Summary
Family left belongings with Mrs Dorling for safekeeping.
Family left belongings with Mrs Dorling for safekeeping.
Mother gave address 46 Marconi Street at station.
Mother gave address 46 Marconi Street at station.
Dorling will not let her in years later.
Dorling will not let her in years later.
Daughter shows rooms full of misused familiar objects.
Daughter shows rooms full of misused familiar objects.
Tablecloth burned; objects alien - narrator walks out.
Tablecloth burned; objects alien - narrator walks out.
She decides not to claim things; past cannot return.
She decides not to claim things; past cannot return.
Hard words & meanings
| reproachfully | with blame |
| lingering | lasting |
| hastily | quickly |
| authentically | genuinely |
| cronies | close friends |
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