A Letter to God

 A LETTER TO GOD

THE house — the only one in the entire valley — sat on the crest of a low hill. From this height one could see the river and the field of ripe corn dotted with the flowers that always promised a good harvest. The only thing the earth needed was a downpour or at least a shower.

1.On what many things, in the nature,  the man has got  control over?

2. The powerful weapon the man boasts onto is the SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT, Will our scientific development PROVE us all mighty with complete independence and control over the situation in the surrounding?

4. What happens to our scientific reaches on the verge of natural disasters and catastrophes

3. Is there some power (as GOD) acting consistently, which may be more powerful than the Man,  for the betterment of the man-kind, providing what he wants at a time?

4. What will happen if GOD starts fulfilling desires of every single entity, e.g. at the same time a few farmers want rains, other clear sky and still others a little drizzling?

 Throughout the morning Lencho — who knew his fields intimately  (to say or suggest things in an indirect way)— had done nothing else but see the sky towards the north-east.

5.Why was Lencho looking at the sky in the north-east direction?

6. What does he know about his fields intimately?

“Now we’re really going to get some water, woman.” The woman who was preparing supper, replied, “Yes, God willing”. The older boys were working in the field, while the smaller ones were playing near the house until the woman called to them all, “Come for  dinner”.  It  was  during  the  meal  that,  just  as crest top of a hill.

7. Lencho's wife say, "yes, God willing" What does it tell us about her faith in GOD?

8. Is it right to have a faith in God or else it just can be considered as a sign of inacting and weak-will power?

Lencho had predicted, big drops of rain began to fall. In the north-east huge mountains of clouds could be seen approaching. The air was fresh and sweet. The man went out for no other reason than to have the pleasure of feeling the rain on his body, and when he returned he exclaimed, ‘‘These aren’t raindrops falling from the sky, they are new coins. The big drops are ten cent pieces and the little ones are fives.’’

9. Do you welcome rains? how do you feel drenching under rain showers? Why do we ardently desire for rains?

10. Why does Lencho call rain drops 'new coins' of 'ten cent pieces and five cent pieces'?

11. What is the role of rain in a life of a farmer? Elucidate

With a satisfied expression he regarded the field of ripe corn with its flowers, draped in a curtain of rain. But suddenly a strong wind began to blow and along with the rain very large hailstones began to fall. These truly did resemble new silver coins. The boys, exposing themselves to the rain, ran out to collect the frozen pearls.

‘‘It’s really getting bad now,’’ exclaimed the man. “I hope it passes quickly.” It did not pass quickly. For an hour the hail rained on the house, the garden, the hillside, the cornfield, on the whole valley. The field was white, as if covered with salt.

Not a leaf remained on the trees. The corn was totally destroyed. The flowers were gone from the plants. Lencho’s soul was filled with sadness. When the storm had passed, he stood in the middle of the field and said to his sons, “A plague of locusts would have left more than this. The hail has left nothing.

12. It is said, "Man proposes and God disposes" is it true in the case of Lencho? 

13. Why Lencho who was waiting intimately for rains said, "I hope it passes quickly"?

14. Shall Lencho feel disgust, envy and dislike for the GOD because the rains turned horrendous? What would have your feeling if you were in the place of Lencho?

15. How unpredictable and miserable is the life of a farmer? there is nothing in his hands; No guarantee of rains, good crop, various crop related diseases,  no guarantee of minimum support price if in case, god willing, he could reap a quality crop? comment 

This year we will have no corn.’’

That night was a sorrowful one.

“All our work, for nothing.”

‘‘There’s no one who can help us.”

“We’ll all go hungry this year.”

16. We will certainly get to know why FARMERS SUICIDE, END UP THEIR LIVES? Is the life of a farmer a cake-walk? Express your views

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.

17. Why  did the man again hope for God- help amidst utmost ruined state?

“Don’t be so upset, even though this seems like a total loss. Remember, no one dies of hunger.”

“That’s what they say: no one dies of hunger.” 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. Lencho was an ox of a man, working like an animal in the fields, but still he knew how to write. The following Sunday, at daybreak, he began to write a letter which he himself would carry to town and place in the mail. It was nothing less than a letter to God.

18. The positivism in Lencho's family  led him towards an amazing idea of writing a letter?

19. Don't you think in the wake of all durst, one can still live a calm and composed life provided he has FAITH in HIMSELF and the GOD? Many people in the world have been saved from the oddest ordeal of life just with a ray of positivism? Don't you think that positivism plays an important role in the lives of the students also- Elucidate

“God,” he wrote, “if you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year. I need a hundred pesos in order to sow my field again and to live until the crop comes, because the hailstorm... .”

20. How much money did Lencho require?Why?

21. Is this like relief-fund by governments provided in such devastating times?

He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope, put the letter inside and, still troubled, went to town. At the post office, he placed a stamp on the letter and dropped it into the mailbox.

22. We can relate Lencho's plight with that of Munna from the lesson 'JALEBIS' who asks fees money form god, do you like this idea of writing a letter to God? what would have you done if you were in the place of Lencho?

One of the employees, who was a postman and also helped at the post office, went to his boss laughing heartily and showed him the letter to God. Never in his career as a postman had he known that address. The postmaster — a fat, amiable fellow — also broke out laughing, but almost immediately he turned serious and, tapping the letter on his desk, commented, “What faith! I wish I had the faith of the man who wrote this letter. Starting up a correspondence with God!”

23. What difference do you notice between the characters of the postman and the postmaster?

24.Why do people who could not help others, also do not feel compassion for the aggrieved? is it a right gesture to laugh at someone who is in utmost disparity? Comment.

So, in order not to shake the writer’s faith in God, the postmaster came up with an idea: answer the letter. But when he opened it, it was evident that to answer it he needed something more than goodwill, ink and paper. But he stuck to his resolution: he asked for money from his employees, he himself gave part of his salary, and several friends of his were obliged to give something ‘for an act of charity’.

25. What was the idea of the postmaster? Why did he take this idea?

26. Don't you think people like the postmaster are the real hope for mankind?Elucidate

27. What is charity? Don't you think the charity by big business firms and business tycoons should be diverted to the agriculture sector? your opinion

It was impossible for him to gather together the hundred pesos, so he was able to send the farmer only a little more than half. He put the money in an envelope addressed to Lencho and with it a letter containing only a single word as a signature: God.

28. How much amount could the postmaster send to Lencho?

29. In whose name does he send the money to Lencho? Why?

30. It is said, "service to Man is service to God" Explain in the light of the postmasters act of helping Lench0?

The following Sunday Lencho came a bit earlier than usual to ask if there was a letter for him. It was the postman himself who handed the letter to him while the postmaster, experiencing the contentment of a man who has performed a good deed, looked on from his office.

31. How does one feel when one is able to bring a dint of contentment in someones life?

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.

32. Why didn't Lencho show even the slightest surprise on receiving money?

33. What made him angry? 

Immediately, Lencho went up to the window to ask for paper and ink. On the public writing-table, he started to write, with much wrinkling of his brow, caused by the effort he had to make to express his ideas. When he finished, he went to the window to buy a stamp which he licked and then affixed to the envelope with a blow of his fist. The moment the letter fell into the mailbox the postmaster went to open it. 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 it to me through the mail because the post office employees are a bunch of crooks. Lencho.”

34. Why did Lencho decide to write a return letter?

35. Sketch the character of Lencho.

36. Sketch the character of the Postmaster.

Write the summary of the lesson in your own words.

Write the moral of the lesson.

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