TEXTBOOK (NCERT) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS || A LETTER TO GOD || CBSE CLASS 10 ENGLISH || FIRST FLIGHT ||

Oral Comprehension Check

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1.
What did Lencho hope for?

Ans. Lencho was a farmer who was hoping for a downpour or at least a shower.

2.
Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?

Ans. Lencho regarded
raindrops to be ‘new coins’ because they would help in the ripening of the
corns and it would be a good harvest.

3.
How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s field?

Ans. The farmer was
expecting a shower but it changed to a hailstorm. Lencho’s field got damaged to
its last extent.

4.
What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?

Ans. Lencho was
shattered when the hail stopped as his crops were ruined.

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Thinking about the Text

1.
Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the
story tell you this?

Ans. Lencho had
complete faith in God. There are several instances from the story which tells
this is: “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.”, and “It said: “God”: Of the money that I asked for, only seventy
pesos reached me. Send me the rest, since I need it very much. But don’t send
me it to me through the mail because the post office employees are a bunch of
crooks. Lencho. ”

2.
Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign
the letter ‘God’?

Ans. The postmaster
was an amiable fellow. He was touched by the deep faith of the writer of the
letter i.e. Lencho. So, he decided not to break his firm belief and thus he
came up with an idea to help Lencho. He realized that Lencho needed something
more than goodwill, ink and paper. In order to help him, he asked money from
his employees and even provided a part from his salary. Moreover, he made his
friends donate ‘for an act of charity’. But it was a tough job for him to
arrange a hundred pesos as a result of which he had to send money that was less
than the required amount but was more than half.

He signed the letter
as ‘God’ because he wanted to keep his faith tireless.

3.
Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him?
Why/Why not?

Ans. No, Lencho didn’t
try to find out who had sent the money to him. It was his faith and confidence
that made him believe that the money was sent by God. So, he didn’t even try to
find out the real fact behind this.

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.)

Ans. Lencho had a strong faith in God as a result of which
he believed that the money was sent by God. But he found that the money was
less than he asked for. He believed that God couldn’t do this to him. So he
thought that the employees of the post office must have stolen the rest of the
money.

The irony of the
situation is that Lencho regarded the employees to be ‘crooks’ who on the other
hand helped him with the seventy pesos.

5.
Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a
person would you say he is? You may select appropriate words from the box to
answer the question.

greedy naive stupid
ungrateful

selfish comical
unquestioning

Ans. No, I don’t think that people like
Lencho exists in the real world as no one would is as innocent as him.

This story does
not prove that he is greedy or ungrateful, rather he can be considered as a
‘naive’ and ‘unquestioning’.

6.
There are two kinds of conflict in the story; between humans and
nature, and between themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?

Ans. Two kinds of conflicts
are being illustrated in the story “A Letter to God” by G.L.Fuentes. Nature has
its dual nature. In the beginning, the farmer, Lencho was expecting a shower
which would have helped him ripen his corns. But instead due to hail, the crops
got destroyed and the farmer was grief-stricken.

This was the conflict
between humans and nature.

On the other hand, Lencho, being
sorrowful, wrote a letter to God and asked for a hundred pesos. Seeing such
faith, the postmaster decided to help him. He gathered the money from different
sources and even provided a part of his salary but couldn’t arrange the total
amount. The farmer after getting the amount accused the employees of the
post-office to have stolen the money that God had provided to him.