A Letter To God Cbse Class 10
Summary
Question & Answers
Oral Comprehension Check
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Question 1.
What did Lencho hope for?
Answer:Lencho hoped for a good rain as it was much needed for a good harvest.
Question 2.
Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?
Answer:Lencho compared the raindrops with new coins because they were promising him a good harvest resulting in more prosperity.
Question 3.
How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
Answer:The rain changed into hailstones as a strong wind began to blow and huge hailstones began to fall alongwith the rain. All the crops in Lencho’s field got destroyed because of the weather conditions.
Question 4.
What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?
Answer:Lencho was filled with grief after the hail stopped as everything was ruined and there was nothing that he could feed his family with. He could see a bleak future for him and his family.
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Question 5.
Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Answer:Lencho had firm faith in God. He believed ‘ that God sees everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience and help everyone in one’s problems. He wrote a letter to God demanding him a hundred pesos to sow his field again.
Question 6.
Who read the letter?
Answer:Postmaster read the letter.
Question 7.
What did the postmaster do after reading a letter?
Answer:The postmaster laughed when he read Lencho’s letter but soon he became serious and was moved by the writer’s faith in God. He didn’t want to shake Lencho’s faith. So, he decided to collect ,money and send it to Lencho on behalf of God.
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Question 8.
Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Answer:Lencho was not surprised to find a letter with money from God as he believed that God will help him.
Question 9.
What made Lencho angry?
Answer:There were only seventy pesos in the envelope whereas Lencho had demanded a hundred pesos. The difference in the amount made him angry.
Thinking about the Text (Page 7,8)
Question 1.
Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
Answer:Lencho has complete faith in God as he is instructed that God knows everything and helps us in our problems. There are few sentences which show this
These lines are evident to this fact: "Lencho showed not the slightest surprise on seeing the money; such was his confidence - but he became angry when he counted the money. God could not have made a mistake, nor could he have denied Lencho what he had requested."
Question 2.
Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter God?
Answer:The postmaster sends money to Lencho in order to keep
Lencho’s faith in God alive and firm as he was completely moved by it.
When postmaster reads the letter of Lencho to God, he becomes serious and does not want to shake his faith and decides to answer the letter. He gathers money with the help of his post office employees and friends on behalf of God and signs the letter ‘God’ so that Lencho’s faith does not get shaken.
Question 3.
Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why or why not?
Answer :Lencho did not try to find out who had sent the money to him because he never suspected the presence of God and had complete faith in God. He could not believe that it could be – anybody else other than him who would send him the money.
His faith in God was so strong that he believed that he had sent money to him for his help in his problem.
Question 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).
Answer: Lencho thinks that the post office employees have taken the rest of the money as he had demanded a hundred pesos from God and in the letter there was only seventy pesos and God cannot make such a mistake. So, he assumes that they have stolen the money.
The irony in this situation is that Lencho suspects those people who helped him in his problem and tried to keep his faith alive in God.
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 | Naïve | stupid | ungrateful |
selfish | comical | unquestioning |
Answer
I don't think there can be any such people in the real world. Lencho is literate and yet he dosen’t know how his letter will reach God without any address.
He probably would be naïve and unquestioning.
6. There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
Answer:The conflict between humans and nature is shown by the destruction of Lencho’s crops by the hailstorm. As the crops failed by hail, Lencho started feeling sad and gloomy after the storm appropriately projects the conflict of the nature and the man. The Story also shown another conflict, between humans themselves. The postmaster, along with the help of the other post office employees, sent Lencho the money that they could manage to collect. They were not related to Lencho in any manner. It was an act of kindness and selflessness on their part. Even though they did a good deed, Lencho blamed them for taking away some amount of money. This shows that man does not have faith in his fellow humans, thereby giving rise to this conflict.
1. There are different names in different parts of the world for storms, depending on their nature. Can you match the names in the box with their descriptions below, and fill in the blanks? You may use a dictionary to help you.
gale, | whirlwind, | cyclone, |
hurricane, | tornado, | typhoon |
__ __ c __ __ __ __
2. An extremely strong wind: __ a __ __
3. A violent tropical storm with very strong winds: __ __ p __ __ __ __
4. A violent storm whose centre is a cloud in the shape of a funnel:__ __ __ n __ __ __
5. A violent storm with very strong winds, especially in the western Atlantic ocean: __ __ r __ __ __ __ __ __
6. A very strong wind that moves very fast in a spinning movement and causes a lot of damage: __ __ __ __ l __ __ __ __
Answer
1. Cyclone
4. Tornado
5. Hurricane
A | B | ||
1. | Will you get the subjects you want to study in college? I hope so. | − | a feeling that something good will probably happen |
2. | I hope you don’t mind my saying this, but I don’t like the way you are arguing. | − | thinking that this would happen (It may or may not have happened). |
3. | This discovery will give new hope to HIV/AIDS sufferers. | − | stopped believing that this good thing would happen |
4. | We were hoping against hope that the judges would not notice our mistakes. | − | wanting something to happen (and thinking it quite possible) |
5. | I called early in the hope of speaking to her before she went to school. | − | showing concern that what you say should not offend or disturb the other person: a way of being polite |
6. | Just when everybody had given up hope, the fishermen came back, seven days after the cyclone. | − | wishing for something to happen, although this is very unlikely |
Answer
A | B | ||
1. | Will you get the subjects you want to study in college? I hope so. | − | wanting something to happen (and thinking it quite possible) |
2. | I hope you don’t mind my saying this, but I don’t like the way you are arguing. | − | showing concern that what you say should not offend or disturb the other person: a way of being polite |
3. | This discovery will give new hope to HIV/AIDS sufferers. | − | a feeling that something good will probably happen |
4. | We were hoping against hope that the judges would not notice our mistakes. | − | wishing for something to happen, although this is very unlikely |
5. | I called early in the hope of speaking to her before she went to school. | − | thinking that this would happen (It may or may not have happened.) |
6. | Just when everybody had given up hope, the fisherman came back, seven days after the cyclone. | − | stopped believing that this good thing would happen |
3. Join the sentences given below using who, whom, whose, which as suggested.
1. I often go to Mumbai. Mumbai is the commercial capital of India. (which)
2. My mother is going to host a TV show on cooking. She cooks very well. (who)
3. These sportspersons are going to meet the President. Their performance has been excellent. (whose)
4. Lencho prayed to God. His eyes see into our minds. (whose)
5. This man cheated me. I trusted him. (whom)
Answer
1. I often go to Mumbai, which is the commercial capital of India.
2. My mother, who cooks very well, is going to host a TV show on cooking.
3. These sportspersons, whose performance has been excellent, are going to meet the President.
4. Lencho prayed to God, whose eyes see into our minds.
5. This man, whom I trusted, cheated me.
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4. Find sentences in the story with negative words, which express the following ideas emphatically.
1. The trees lost all their leaves.
_______________________________________________________________
2. The letter was addressed to God himself.
_______________________________________________________________
3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
_______________________________________________________________
Answer
1. The trees lost all their leaves.
Not a leaf remained on the trees.
2. The letter was addressed to God himself.
It was nothing less than a letter to God.
3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
Never in his career as a postman had he known that address.
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5. In pairs, find metaphors from the story to complete the table below. Try to say what qualities are being compared. One has been done for you.
Object | Metaphor | Quality or Feature Compared |
Cloud | Huge mountains of clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains. |
Raindrops | ||
Hailstones | ||
Locusts | ||
| An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead. | ||
| An ox of a man. |
Answer
Object | Metaphor | Quality or Feature Compared |
Cloud | Huge mountains of clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains |
Raindrops | A curtain of rain | The draping or covering of an area by a curtain |
Hailstones | The frozen pearls | The resemblance in colour and hardness of a pearl |
Locusts | A plague of Locusts | The consequences (destruction) of plague |
Locusts | A plague of locusts | An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead |
Man | An ox of a man | The working of an ox in the fields (hard work) |
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