Summary of A Letter to God NCERT Class 10th
Quick Revision Notes
• Lencho’s crops had failed that year and he had only a single hope i.e. God!
• He wrote a letter to God “God, my crops have failed and my family is going to starve. I need some money- hundred pesos.”
• At the post office, the postmen saw such a queer letter and brought it to the postmaster.
• The postmaster was a man of sympathy and understand a man like Lencho.
• Postmaster observed that faith of Lencho was strong as a child’s so he decided to send an amount of hundred pesos to the poor farmer.
• Hundred pesos was a huge amount, the postmaster was able to collect only seventy pesos. However, he sent the money to Lencho.
• Lencho received the money with a belief that God had helped him.
• Lencho was sad and angry after counting the money as he received only seventy instead of hundred.
• Lencho wrote another letter to God and dropped the letter in the same postbox and went.
• The postmaster felt the biggest shock and shame in his life after opening Lencho’s second letter to God.
• Lencho had written, “God, of the money that I had 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 post because the post office employees are a bunch of thieves. Lencho.”
Crest : top/the highest part of a hill
Dotted with : scattered over an area
Predict : foretell the future
Drape : cover
Locusts : insects which fly in big groups and destroy crops.
Solitary : lonely / single
Upset : disturbed
Conscience : an inner sense of right and wrong
Peso : currency of several Latin American countries
Amiable : friendly and pleasant
Correspondence : an act of writing letters
Resolution : a firm decision
Contentment : satisfaction
Crooks : dishonest persons / people