📘 Class 10 English – Chapter 1: A Letter to God
From the book: First Flight
Chapter Title: A Letter to God
Author: Gregorio López y Fuentes
📝 Textbook Questions and Answers
1. What did Lencho hope for?
Lencho hoped for rain as the only thing that his field of ripe corn needed was a shower.
2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?
Since the rain would lead to a good harvest and more money, Lencho compared the drops to ‘new coins’.
3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
The rain turned into a hailstorm with strong winds and large hailstones. It destroyed all of Lencho’s crops.
4. What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?
Lencho was heartbroken and filled with despair. He saw a bleak future for his family and worried about food scarcity.
5. Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Lencho had deep faith in God. He wrote a letter to God asking for 100 pesos to sow his field again and survive.
6. Who read the letter?
The postmaster read the letter addressed to God.
7. What did the postmaster do then?
Initially amused, the postmaster was moved by Lencho’s faith. He collected money from his staff and contributed some himself to send to Lencho.
🎤 Oral Comprehension Check
1. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
No, he wasn’t surprised. He had full faith that God would respond to his request.
2. What made him angry?
He received only seventy pesos instead of the hundred he had asked for. He believed the remaining thirty had been stolen by the post office employees.
💭 Thinking About the Text
1. Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
Lencho had complete faith in God. Sentences that show this include:
- “It was during the meal that, as Lencho had predicted, big drops of rain began to fall.”
- “God: if you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year.”
- “God: of the money that I asked for, only seventy pesos reached me...”
2. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter ‘God’?
The postmaster was touched by Lencho’s faith and didn’t want to disappoint him. To preserve his belief, he signed the letter as ‘God’.
3. Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
No. Lencho firmly believed it was God who sent the money. He didn’t suspect any human intervention.
4. Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in the situation?
He thinks the post office employees stole it. The irony is that the very people who helped him were being blamed by him.
5. There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
The hailstorm shows the conflict between man and nature. Lencho’s mistrust of the kind post office staff shows the conflict between humans themselves, despite their good intentions.
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