Class 10 First flight
Chapter 1 - A LETTER TO GOD
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SUMMARY
The author of the story " A LETTER TO GOD" is G.L. Fuentes.
Lencho is a hard working. Heavy rain and hailstorm destroy his crops.
As a result, the only hope for him in this hour of need is the help of God. He has a great faith in God. He believes that God will come to his help. He writes a letter to God to send him 100 pesos.
The postmaster at first breaks out laughing but the other moment he turns serious at the immense faith of the man who has written this letter. The postmaster answer the letter to God inorder not to shake the writer's faith in God. On behalf of God, he sends him only seventy pesos as he is able to collect only that much amount. Lencho doesn't show the slightest surprise on seeing the money. Such is his confidence. He becomes angry on counting the money. He again writes a letter to God to send him the remaining 30 pesos directly instead of sending through mail. He calls the post office employees a bunch of crooks.
Short answer type questions
1. What did lencho hope for ?
Ans Lencho hoped for good rain and good harvest from the nature.
2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like 'new coins' ?
Ans Lencho was hoping for good harvest and it was possible when it will be rain sufficiently. As the rain started the raindrops looked like new coins to Lencho because it was valuable for him at that time of harvesting.
3. How did rain change? What happened to Lecho's fields ?
Ans The rain changed into hailstorm and heavy wind blowing with rain. It was a big rainfall which continued for hours.
Lecho's field got destroy after the heavy rainfall and hailstones which covered the the whole field.
4. Who and what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Ans Lencho had faith in God that he would send him money he asked to God.
He wrote a letter addressing God and asked for 100 pesos.
5. Who read the letter?
Ans A postman read the letter.
6. What did the postmaster do then?
Ans The postmaster then broke out in laughter. But he didn't want to brake his faith in God so he collected money from their salary and send it to Lencho .
7. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Ans No, Lencho was not surprised to find a letter for him with money in it.
8. What made Lencho angry?
Ans Lencho got angry when he found 70 pesos into envelop because he had asked 100 pesos.
9. What were Lecho's feelings when the hail stopped?
Ans Lencho felt completely broken. The hail had left nothing. He felt that they would have no corn that year.
10. Did Lencho tried to find out who had sent the money to him? Why ? Why not?
Ans No, Lencho did not try to find out who had sent the money to him because he had unbreakable faith in God and he was over sure that only God could send him money.
11. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter 'God' ?
Ans The postmaster send money to Lencho because he did not want to break the faith of Lencho in God.
He signed the letter 'God' so that the writer thinks that God had himself send the money to Lencho.
Long answer type questions
1. Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentence in the story tell you this?
Ans Lencho has complete faith in God. The following sentences in the story tell us this-
- But in the heart of all who lived in that solitary house in the middle of the valley, there was a single hope: help from God.
- He wrote 'to God' on the envelope.
- "What faith! I wish I had the faith of the man who wrote this letter ".
- "God : of the money that I asked for, only 70 pesos reached me. Send me the rest, since I need it very much. "
2. How did the post office employees help Lencho? How did Lencho react to their help?
Ans When the postmaster received Lencho's letter, he decided to reply to it. He realised that he needed a hundred pesos in order to send the reply to the strange letter. He asked the post office employees to donate money for Lencho. He himself gave a part of his salary. Several of his friends also gave something as an act of charity. He could collect only seventy pesos. He put the money in an envelop addressed to Lencho.
When Lencho received the letter, he was not surprised to see the money. He was confident that God would send him money. He became angry when he counted the money. He found it less than he had asked for. He thought that the God could not denied him what he requested. He suspected that the post office employees were crooks who had taken away his money. So, he wrote another letter to God, requesting him to send him the rest of the money.
3. What did the postmaster need to answer the letter?
Ans Lencho's letter to God was first seen by a postman. When he saw it he broke into a laughter. He took it to the post master. On seeing it he also laughed. But he soon turned serious. He admired the faith of man in God.
He decided to answer the letter. But it was not easy to do so. The writer had requested God to send him to send him a 100 pesos. It was a big amount for the postmaster. All the same, he struck of his resolution. He made a collection from his employees, his friends and he himself did not lag behind. But he could not raise more than 70 pesos on all. However, he put the money in an envelop, wrote Lencho's address on it and asked the postman to give it to him when he came. In this way, the post office employees helped him a lot.
4. How do you think the postmaster felt when he received Lencho's second letter? What do you think he did?
Ans I think the postmaster would have felt after receiving his second letter very disappointed when Lencho called the people who helped him a bunch of crooks and blames them for stealing the 30 pesos.
But he would have also felt happy to find that Lencho's faith in God. So, he must have decided to send the rest of the money to Lencho. He would have again requested his friends and the post office employees to donate 30 pesos . He must have sent the rest of money to Lencho.
5. Why did Lencho write a letter to God?
Ans Lencho was hoping for good harvest and it was possible only when it will be rain sufficiently. But the rain changed into hailstorm and heavy wind blowing with rain. It was a big rainfall which continued for hours. Lencho's field got totally destroyed. But Lencho have complete faith in God.
He decided to write a letter to God and asked him for 100 pesos. The letter reached the postmaster. He read letter with curiosity . He was a kind man and decided to help Lencho. He collected 70 pesos with great effort. This he put into envelop and singed 'GOD ' on the letter. But he got angry when he found 70 pesos. He immediately wrote another letter to God. In it, he complained against post office employees. He was sure that the part of money had been stolen by the post office employees.
6. Sketch the character of Lencho.
Ans Lencho was a hard working farmer. He work like an ox in his field. He lived in lonely place. When his crop was completely destroyed by the hailstorm, he was filled with sadness. He feared that he would have no corn that year. He thought that his family would starve. His only hope was the help from God. So, he decided to write a letter to God.
In his letter to God, he requested God to send him a100 peasos so that he sow his field again and feed his family. When he received the reply to his letter, he was not surprised to see the money. He become angry when he counted the money and found that it was less than he had asked for.
He wrote another letter to God, requesting him to send him the rest of money. He asked God to send money through mail because he thought that the post office employees had taken away his money.
Lencho's simplicity and faith in God win our simplicity.
7. There are two kinds of conflicts in the story : between humans and nature and between human themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
Ans These is a conflict beautifully portrayed by the writer between the human and nature. Here it is showed that Lencho is a hardworking farmer who invests all his money and labour for sowing seeds in his field and waits for good raindrops from the nature. He is feeling joy because of helping good harvest after rain. But the nature changed its mood and it rained so heavily and his hope too. This is the conflict between humans and nature. What people think, nature not always do the same in reply of human expectations.
There is another conflict between human themselves. As the story tell us Lencho wrote a letter to God and asked money. Post office employees got the collecting from most of employees for the sake of his unbreakable faith in God. Instead of praising them. Lencho blamed them for cheating the rest of money which they could not send. This is the human nature that cannot believe on another human at any cost.
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