A Letter To God

A Letter to God
Oral Comprehension Check

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Question 1.
What did Lencho hope for?
Answer:
Lencho hoped for a good rain as it was much needed for a good harvest.
Question 2.
Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins?
Answer:
Lencho compared the raindrops with new coins because they were
promising him a good harvest resulting in more prosperity.
Question 3.
How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
Answer:
The rain changed into hailstones as a strong wind began to blow and huge
hailstones began to fall alongwith the rain. All the crops in Lencho’s field
got destroyed because of the weather conditions.
Question 4.
What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?
Answer:
Lencho was filled with grief after the hail stopped as everything was
ruined and there was nothing that he could feed his family with. He could
see a bleak future for him and his family.
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Question 5.
Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Answer:
Lencho had firm faith in God. He believed ‘that God sees everything, even
what is deep in one’s conscience and help everyone in one’s problems. He
wrote a letter to God demanding him a hundred pesos to sow his field
again.
Question 6.
Who read the letter?
Answer:
Postmaster read the letter.
Question 7.
What did the postmaster do after reading a letter?
Answer:
The postmaster laughed when he read
Lencho’s letter but soon he became serious and was moved by the
writer’s faith in God. He didn’t want to shake Lencho’s faith. So, he
decided to collect, money and send it to Lencho on behalf of God.
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Question 8.
Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Answer:
Lencho was not surprised to find a letter with money from God as he
believed that God will help him.
Question 9.
What made Lencho angry?
Answer:
There were only seventy pesos in the envelope whereas Lencho had
demanded a hundred pesos. The difference in the amount made him
angry.
Thinking about the Text (Page 7,8)
Question 1.
Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story
tell you this?
Answer:
Lencho has complete faith in God as he is instructed that God knows
everything and helps us in our problems. There are few sentences which
show this
 But in the hearts of all who lived in that solitary house in the
middle of the valley, there was a single hope help from God.
 All through the night, Lencho thought only of his one hope: the
help of God, whose eyes, as he had been instructed, see
everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience.
 “God”, he wrote, “if you don’t help me, my family and I will go
hungry this year”.
 He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope, put the letter inside and
still troubled, went to town.
 God could not have made a mistake, nor could he have denied
Lencho what he had requested.
Question 2.
Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the
letter God?
Answer:
The postmaster sends money to Lencho in order to keep
Lencho’s faith in God alive and firm as he was completely moved by it.
When postmaster reads the letter of Lencho to God, he becomes serious
and does not want to shake his faith and decides to answer the letter. He
gathers money with the help of his post office employees and friends on
behalf of God and signs the letter ‘God’ so that Lencho’s faith does not get
shaken.
Question 3.
Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why or why
not?
Answer:
Lencho did not try to find out who had sent the money to him because he
never suspected the presence of God and had complete faith in God. He
could not believe that it could be – anybody else other than him who
would send him the money.
His faith in God was so strong that he believed that he had sent money to
him for his help in his problem.
Question 4.
Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony
in the situation? (Remember that the irony of a situation is an unexpected
aspect of it. An ironic situation is strange or amusing because it is the
opposite of what is expected).
Answer:
Lencho thinks that the post office employees have taken the rest of the
money as he had demanded a hundred pesos from God and in the letter
there was only seventy pesos and God cannot make such a mistake. So,
he assumes that they have stolen the money.
The irony in this situation is that Lencho suspects those people who
helped him in his problem and tried to keep his faith alive in God.

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