Chapter 1 A Letter to God Solutions
Question - 11 : - Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
Answer - 11 : - No, Lencho did not try to find out who had sent him the money because he was confident that God had sent it to him. Not for a moment he suspected that someone else other than God must have sent the money to him. His faith in the Almighty was so rock-solid that he knew that nothing escapes God’s eyes. Lencho felt that God was aware of the unfortunate incident faced by him and requested him to save him from this difficult situation.
Question - 12 : - Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in the situation?
Answer - 12 : -
Upon counting the money, when Lencho found seventy pesos only in the envelope instead of hundred pesos that he had requested from God, he was confident that the Almighty couldn’t have made such a big mistake. From this situation, he understood that the post office employees could have stolen the remaining thirty pesos from the envelope. Hence, he called them crooks.
The element of irony in this situation is that Lencho ends up suspecting those people who helped him in his crisis in order to avoid shaking his faith in God.
Question - 13 : - Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is?
Answer - 13 : -
You may select appropriate words from the box to answer the question.
greedy naive stupid ungrateful
selfish comical unquestioning
Answer:
It is not easy to find people like Lencho in the real world as he has a naïve and unquestioning nature. From the story, we can conclude that he is not stupid and a literate person who wrote a letter to God without any address requesting for money. Lencho had deep faith in God and was confident that he would definitely receive some financial help from the Almighty.
Question - 14 : - There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between
humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
Answer - 14 : -
The conflicts between humans and nature is shown in the story when Lencho’s crops were destroyed by the hailstorm. He had expected some good rain for a good harvest. However, when his crops were damaged by the hailstorm, he lost all hope and became sad at the sight of his destroyed field.
However, the story also depicts conflicts of humans between themselves when the postmaster collected some money from his colleagues, friends and gave a part of his salary to help Lencho so that the latter’s faith in God is not shaken. It was a beautiful act of selflessness and kindness on their part. Despite their noble act, when Lencho received the money, he blindly believed that God had sent him the money and he blamed the post office employees for stealing some money from the envelope. This implies that man lacks faith in his fellow human beings, which gives rise to conflicts between themselves.
Question - 15 : - Relative Clauses: Join the sentences given below using who, whom, whose, which, as suggested.
Answer - 15 : -
1. I often go to Mumbai. Mumbai is the commercial capital of India. (which)
Answer:- 1. I often go to Mumbai, which is the commercial capital of India.
2. My mother is going to host a TV show on cooking. She cooks very well. (who)
Answer:- 2. My mother, who cooks very well, is going to host a TV show on cooking.
3. These sportspersons are going to meet the President. Their performance has been
excellent. (whose)
Answer:- 3. These sportspersons, whose performance has been excellent, are going to meet the President.
4. Lencho prayed to God. His eyes see into our minds. (whose)
Answer:- 4. Lencho prayed to God, whose eyes see into our minds.
5. This man cheated me. I trusted him. (whom)
Answer:- 5. This man, whom I trusted, cheated me.
Question - 16 : - Using Negatives for Emphasis: Find sentences in the story with negative words, which express the following ideas emphatically.
Answer - 16 : -
1. The trees lost all their leaves.
Answer: Not a leaf remained on the trees.
2. The letter was addressed to God himself.
Answer: It was nothing less than a letter to God.
3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
Answer: Never in his career as a postman had he known that address.