The hailstones are referred to as ‘frozen pearls’ by the narrator. Why?
(From Chapter 'Letter to God' Class 10)
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Answers
because not a leaf remember of his crop
Answer:
Hailstorms look like frozen pearls. So, the narrator compares it with the frozen pearls.
Theme of the story
There is a hard working farmer in this story, named as Lencho. He needs a shower of rain for good harvest. When the rain come, he become happy. But suddenly, his happiness changed into sorrow as the hailstorms follows the rain and destroying his crops. So, he wrote a letter to God. He has a strong faith in God. In his letter, he demanded 100 pesos to re-sown his crops. He posts it. When postman saw his letter, he starts laughing and after that he shows it to the postmaster. Postmaster decided to help Lencho and keep his faith alive in God. He gives a part of his money and collect some more money from other employees. After collecting a score of seventy pesos, he sends it to Lencho. Lench's happy to see the money, but when he counts it, he become angry. He said a lot of things like God can't deceive him and all. So, he wrote another letter of God asking him for the rest of the money and also asks him not to send the money by mail, as the post office employees are a bunch of Crooks.