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A LETTER TO GOD

~ GL Fuentes

THEME
The insightful story is about a farmer named Lencho who writes a letter to God seeking His
assistance when his crops are devastated by a hailstorm. It has interesting parallels between
contradicting themes such as faith and blind faith, innocence and ignorance,
generosity and greed, etc.

A BRIEF SUMMARY
'A Letter to God' is a story of a farmer's unwavering faith in God. The writer G.L. Fuentes has
tried to depict the faith of a poor and simple farmer in God in an impressive manner. Lencho
was an honest and hardworking farmer. He was shocked to notice that his crop was ruined in a
hailstorm. He turned to God for getting some help. He wrote a letter to God. On Sunday, he
posted the letter. When an employee of the post office chanced to see the letter addressed to
God, he made fun of the man who had written that letter but his boss, the postmaster was a
serious man and did not take the letter lightly. He was impressed by the extreme faith of the
man and wished to have the same faith. He decided to answer the letter. He collected money
from his employees to give in charity to the needy farmer. He was able to collect only seventy
pesos and thought that the farmer would be glad to receive this much. But to his utter
disappointment, the postmaster was shocked to notice that it had made Lencho angry, who
wrote another letter to God but with a warning not to send the money by post as he considered
the postal employees 'a bunch of crooks' who had stolen thirty pesos from the hundred pesos
sent by Him.

A. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words.


1. ‘Lencho was an ox of a man, working like an animal in the fields, but still he knew how to
write.’ What does this line tell us about Lencho and the norm amongst such farmers?

2. Lencho waited eagerly for a reply to his letter to God. Do you think the postmaster was also
very keen to know Lencho’s reaction upon receiving the ‘reply’? Justify.

3. The field was white, as if covered with salt.’ This is how the field is described after the
hailstorm. The pelting hailstones could have been easily seen as sugar cubes. Do you think
comparing it with sugar would have been more appropriate? Why/ Why not?

4. Why were the raindrops considered as new coins but the hailstones as new silver coins?
B. Answer the following questions in about 120 words.
1. The postmaster was a representative of God. Evaluate this statement in the context of your
understanding of ‘A Letter to God”.

2. Describe Lencho’s faith and attitude towards God and man.

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