NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English (Snapshots) Chapter 2 The Address

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Book Name : Snapshots Ncert Solutions | Chapter-2 English

Class : 11th

Subject : English

Chapter : 2

Chapter Name : The Address

Q1 ‘Have you come back?’ said the woman. ‘I thought that no one had come back.’ Does this
statement give some clue about the story? If yes, what is it?

Answer. This statement was uttered by Mrs. Dorling when the narrator visited her in Holland.
The statement shows that the lady knew the narrator since old times.

The girl had visited Mrs. Dorling to take back her mother's possessions which they abandoned
years before, while a war was going on. Now , since the war was over and everything seemed
normal , she decided to visit Mrs. Dorling's home to get back the things she had various
childhood memories linked with.

Q2 The story is divided into pre-War and post-War times. What hardships do you think the girl
underwent during these times?

Answer. The story encompasses the division of period into Pre-War and Post-War with
instances of difference in the lifestyle of a jew family.

There were many hardships faced by the girl throughout her life. Firstly under the rage of the
war , she had to abandon her home, her precious possessions and take refuge to a new place
which was unlikely to serve her happiness like her own home did. She had to sacrifice the
beauty of her childhood by witnessing the cruel reality and bloodshed of the war. Secondly, after
the war, when she even lost her mother and wanted back her abandoned possessions from
Mrs. Dorling, her visit to her home completely shattered her by watching those precious
belongings arranged in a tasteless manner. It completely shunned her wish to have those things
back as she realised she wasn't able to connect to them anymore and it only instilled pain in her
heart by remembering those wartime moments.

Q3 Why did the narrator of the story want to forget the address?

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Book Name : Snapshots Ncert Solutions | Chapter-2 English

Answer. The narrator didn't have a good time at Mrs. Dorling's home. She visited the place in
order to get those belongings back which her mother gave to Mrs Dorling to keep them safe
when they were leaving the place during the war. After finding them arranged in a shabby
manner it left her astonished. She realised it wasn't a connection to her beautiful childhood but
an instilling pain of remembrance of her sufferings during the war. The place made her to
remember how her beautiful childhood of the cheerful past changed into the solitary present.
Hence she wanted to forget the address for ever.

Q4 “The Address’ is a story of human predicament that follows war. Comment.

Answer. 'The Address' is a story that very well depicts the sufferings, a war could bring to the
human lives. It brings no joy and no unity but bloodshed and gloom with it.

With the instance of the narrator in the story, it has been very well encapsulated that a war can
never be a solution to anything but its inception can destroy million lives and snatch away the
happiness of many for a lifetime.

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