Summary of Chapter 1 - A letter to God in CBSE Class 10 English

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Summary of Chapter 1 – A letter to God in CBSE Class 10 English Notes 2023

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Introduction

It is a story of deep faith in God. In this story, the writer, G.L Fuentes has depicted the faith in God of a simple poor family.

Description

In this story, there is a farmer Lencho, who lives in a small house at the top of a hill with wife and sons. He is poor but in honest and a hardworking farmer. His crops have always been good. This time also, he expects it to be good. He wishes to have a downpour. It starts raining in the evening but soon the rain gets changed into hailstorm and his crop of corn gets destroyed completely. He has a great faith in God. Hence, he writes a letter and asks him to send some money (100 pesos)

The Postman shows the strange letter to the postmaster firstly they laugh but when the postmaster reads it, he becomes serious. He decides to help Lencho. He collects money from his employees and friends. He gives a part of his salary too but he is able to collect only 70 pesos.

He puts it into an envelope. After few days, Lencho comes to collect the letter. He is not surprised on receiving the letter but when he collects the money, he gets angry, he writes another letter to God. He asks God to send him rest of the money but at the same time requests him not to send it through mail. He considers the employees of the post office as bunch of crooks who have stolen 30 pesos out of the 100 pesos sent by the God.