A Letter to God

A Letter to God

Short Questions

What did Lencho hope for?

• Lencho had grown corn in his fields and desperately hoped for a good shower of rain to save his crops from dying. 

• He would sit all day at the top of the hill and watch his cornfields

What did Lencho hope for?

• If rains did not come it would die

• Rains would mean a bright future for his family and certainly no starvation.

What are the raindrops compared to and why?

• Raindrops portended a good crop.

• They ensured food for his family and money for the rest of the year.

• Thus Lencho was right in comparing the raindrops to coins which would bring money and good fortune for his family.

Lencho was crestfallen when the rain turned to hailstorm. Comment

• Lencho and his family were totally dependent on the crop of corn.

• Unfortunately, it was destroyed by the rain which later turned into a hailstorm.

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Lencho was crestfallen when the rain turned to hailstorm. Comment

• After this, Lencho and his family had nothing left to eat and had no money to buy anything for their survival.

• So Lencho was crestfallen when the hailstorm destroyed the entire field of crops.

Were the post office employees really crooks? Bring out the irony in the situation

• When Lencho received the money and counted it, he found it to be less than 100 pesos.

• He thought that the post-office employees had taken away the rest of the money

Were the post office employees really crooks?

• The irony in the situation is that the same Postmaster and his employees whom Lencho thought to be crooked, were the ones who had raised money with great effort, put it in an envelope, signed 'God' on the letter and sent it to Lencho.

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Were the post office employees really crooks? Bring out the irony in the situation.

• But Lencho did not know the secret and suspected them and called them a bunch of crooks.

A Letter to God

Long Questions

Give a character sketch of Lencho in the light of his faith and attitude towards God and man.

• Lencho was a poor hardworking farmer whose sole means of survival were his fields.

Give a character sketch of Lencho in the light of his faith and attitude towards God and man.

• When his crops were destroyed completely because of hailstorms, he became hopeless as he did not have even a penny to support his family.

Give a character sketch of Lencho in the light of his faith and attitude towards God and man.

• So he feared that his family would have to starve that year.

• Although desperate and sad, he did not lose hope because he had complete faith in God.

Give a character sketch of Lencho in the light of his faith and attitude towards God and man.

• He believed God would not let him and his family go hungry. 

• Innocent and simple, as he was, he wrote an appealing letter to God seeking hundred pesos to sow his fields again and feed his family.

Give a character sketch of Lencho in the light of his faith and attitude towards God and man.

• God did answer his prayers through the Postmaster when he and the post office employees helped him with the money he so desperately needed.

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Give a character sketch of Lencho in the light of his faith and attitude towards God and man.

• On the other hand, in the opinion of Lencho, unlike God, men could be dishonest and deceitful.

Give a character sketch of Lencho in the light of his faith and attitude towards God and man.

• After receiving the money donated by the post office employees at the behest of the Postmaster, he was angry and wrote to God yet again and complained about.

Give a character sketch of Lencho in the light of his faith and attitude towards God and man.

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• He was convinced that the good God couldn't have sent him half the amount he had asked for

How are these conflicts illustrated in the story? 

• In the initial part of the story, the conflict between nature and man is illustrated through the hailstorm and the destruction of Lencho's corn crops.

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How are these conflicts illustrated in the story?

• Lencho was hopeful of a rich harvest but all his hopes were shattered due to the hailstorm which destroyed his rich crop of harvest completely.

How are these conflicts illustrated in the story?

• This deprived him of his only source of income and means to support his family.

• It seems that nature and Lencho want different things

How are these conflicts illustrated in the story?

• In the latter part of the story, the conflict between humans themselves has illustrated through the kind gesture of the Postmaster and Lencho's belief that the post office employees were crooks and had stolen the 30 pesos, from the hundred pesos, sent to him by God.

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How are these conflicts illustrated in the story?

• His complete faith in God and simplicity makes him doubt the intentions of the post office employees.

• Lencho reflects it by writing back to God asking him to send the remaining pesos directly to him.

How are these conflicts illustrated in the story?

• This distrust leads to conflicts in Lencho's mind making him angry with the post office employees. 

• Generally, it is the distrust that is a major cause of conflict between humans

How are these conflicts illustrated in the story?

• One can imagine what the Postmaster must have gone through when he read the second letter in which Lencho expressed his suspicion and anger towards the post office employees.

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How are these conflicts illustrated in the story?

• It is ironical and tragic that the best intentions of these good people came to nothing because of Lencho's naive nature.