Value point of the Letter to God
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Explanation:
letter to god
objectives
To make them understand the importance of faith.
To make them believe that faith can move mountains.
To develop such a faith in them to develop confidence in them.
To encourage them to develop faith in them.
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Predict : say in advance .
Ex : She predicted that the improvement would continue.
Intimately : closely.
Ex : They are intimate friend.
Draped : cover or decorate something
Ex : Dracula appeared, draped in a huge cloak.
Hailstones : small balls of ice falling as rain.
Ex : The ground was covered with hailstones.
Plague : of something large number of a pest that invade an area.
Ex : a plague of flies, locusts, rats.
key points
Lencho was a farmer and had the field of ripe corn.
He needed a downpour to make his harvest good.
But the rain turned into hailstones which destroyed his whole crop of corn.
He had nothing to eat so he decided to seek help from god.
He wrote a letter to god demanding 100 pesos.
The post office employees made fun of him. But the post master decided to help him.
He collected 70 pesos from his own effort.
But Lencho was angry to receive 70 pesos in place of 100.
He wrote another letter to god demanding rest of the money.
He also requested to send the money through another means because what he believed that post office employees were bunch of crooks.
summary
‘A letter to God’ is a story of extreme faith in god. The writer had tried to depict the faith of a poor and simple farmer in god. Lencho was an honest and hard working farmer . Once there was a hailstorm. It destroyed his crop completely. Lencho had great faith to God. He asked God to send him money. The postmaster saw the letter. He decided to help Lencho. He collected some money. He put it inside the envelope. Lencho came to the post office to check his mail. The post office people gave him the envelope. Lencho opened the envelope. He took out the money and counted it. He found that it was less than he had asked for. He wrote another letter to God. He asked God to send him rest of the money. But he wanted God not to send the money through the mail. He considered them a bunch of crooks who had stolen thirty pesos from the hundred pesos sent by God.
short questions and answers
Q.1 What did Lencho hope for ?
Ans : He hoped that there would be a good shower of rain for his crop.
Q.2 Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’ ?
Ans : Lencho hoped that these drops of rain would give him a good crop and then he would have a rich store of corn for his family. That was why he called the raindrops ‘new coins’.
Q.3 How did the rain change ? what happened to Lencho’s fields ?
Ans : The rain turned into hailstorm. It destroyed Lencho,s crop completely.
Q.4 Who or what did Lencho have faith in ? What did he do?
Ans : Lencho had faith in help from God. He wrote a letter to God saying that he needed a hundred pesos to sow his field again.
Q. 5 Who read the letter ?
Ans : It was the postmaster who read the letter ?
Q.6 What did the postmaster do then ?
Ans : The postmaster at first laughed. But then he became serious. He was deeply moved by the writer’s faith in God. He did not want to shake this faith. So he decided to collect the money and send it to Lencho.
Q.7 Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it ?
Ans : No, he was not at all surprised. He was certain that God would send him the money.
Q.8 What made him angry ?
Ans : Lencho had asked God for one hundred pesos. But he found only seventy pesos in the letter that he had received. He thought the post office people had stolen his money. It was this thought that made him angry.