"The Address"~by Marga Minco
describes the evils of war. How?
(Snapshot lesson 2)

Dear Student,

Wars can make people selfish, mean and greedy. Margo Minco describes how wars bring out the worst side of human beings, the brutalities and injustices of wartime exigencies will lay hold to such a claim. In the story as well, we see the greediness and selfishness come out as in the guise of helping the narrator's mother, Mrs Dorling carries out her own private purpose of accumulating such possessions. From the disarrayed manner in which the antiques were kept in Mrs Dorling's house,we can infer that she had merely accumulated these things without a thought for using them or attaching any sentimental value. She had not taken care of them which is evident from the state in which they were to be found. ​The narrator was horrified by the simultaneous familiarity and unfamiliarity of the room. She stopped horrified in her tracks when she saw the room she felt she apparently knew the room but at the same time it appeared  strange to her. She found herself amidst things which she did not want to see again and these familiar things seemed oppressive to her in unfamiliar surroundings. The narrator could not determine whether she was aghast at the dilapidated condition of the room or disturbed by her personal associations with it.
 

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 It is the greatest catastrophe that can befall human beings. It brings death and destruction, merciless slaughter and butchery, disease and starvation, poverty and ruin in its wake. One has only to think of the havoc that was wrought in various countries not many years ago, in order to estimate the destructive effects of war. A particularly disturbing side of modern wars is that they tend to become global so that they may engulf the entire world. There are, doubtless, people who consider war as something grand and heroic and regard it as something that brings out the best man. But this does not in any way alter the fact that war is a terrible dreadful calamity and this is especially true of an atomic war.
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