A Letter To God

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VIDHYA KUNJ

A SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

GRADE X

SUBJECT ENGLISH: First Flight

TOPIC A letter to god

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE STORY

The story, "A Letter to God" by G.L Fuentes revolves around the
idea of having unquestionable belief in something. Lencho, the
farmer, who is the protagonist of the story, writes a letter to God
seeking help from the almighty after discovering his entire crop
yield destroyed by a devastating hailstorm.

Although, his wishes get fulfilled partially, if not completely, he is


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ungrateful in the end and questions the honesty and modesty of


the post-masters who actually helped him with money
(anonymously) in the name of god.

Setting:

1920s Southern Mexico (After the Mexican Revolution)

Themes:

 Strong Faith

 Corruption

 Far fetched consequences

Point of View

Third Person: Omniscient Narrator ( All knowing/ Absent


character)

CHARACTERS

I.Lencho was a hard working farmer, an ox of a man.

 He is the protagonist and a dynamic character.

 A man with minimal resources.

 He lived in a small house which was situated on the crest


of a low hill in the valley. Throughout the morning Lencho
sat in his house and waited for the rain to come.

 He earned his living by cultivating his fields.


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 He had immense faith in God.

 He therefore sought to God for help when he and his family


reached the point of hunger and he had lost all hope.

 Even the postmaster was struck by his strong religious


convictions and decided to help out. Although he was a
farmer, Lencho had enough education to compose a letter. .

 selfish character

 he changes from having hope in :God” to help them, then


get frustrated when “god” doesn't give full amount of
money.

The postmaster :

 Minor and static character

 kind and generous

 Sympathetic

 Vvry pleasant and humble personality.

 A fat and amiable fellow.

 He was a sensible and a compassionate human being who


was amazed by the depth of faith in God that is shown by
Lencho.

 Although at first he was amused by Lencho's letter to God,


he became serious and wanted to help Lencho because he
didn't want his faith to be shaken.
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PLOT

EXPOSITION (INTRODUCTION)

A farmer named Lencho lived in a house on the top of a small hill


with his wife and kids and their farms.

CONFLICT

Just as Lencho predicted it began to rain, but instead of rain


drops it was hailstorm.

RISING ACTION

The “rain” did not go by quickly and end up ruining Lencho’s


crops. Without the crops his family would go hungry, so Lencho
decides to write a letter to God asking for 100 pesos and mailed
it.
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The mailman receives the letter and shows it to the postmaster.


The postmaster did not want to disappoint the farmer's faith,
therefore he collected seventy pesos and put it in a envelope
with a signature that says "God".

CLIMAX (TURNING POINT OF STORY)

Lencho receives the letter which was supposedly sent from God,
and became angry when he saw he only received seventy pesos.

FALLING ACTION

Lencho wrote a letter back to the "God" that only gave him
seventy pesos, asking for the other thirty.

RESOLUTION/ CONCLUSION

The mailman receives the letter and reads it together with the
postmaster realizing that Lencho thought the post office
employees are a bunch of crooks

Lencho receives the letter with the money, but instead of being
greatful, he goes to the post office mad because he only got 70
pesos instead of the 100 and writes another letter to God saying
not to send the money through mail because he assumes the
post-office employees took 30 pesos from the letter.

KEY POINTS
 Lencho was a farmer and had the field of ripe corn.
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 He needed a downpour to make his harvest good.

 But the rain turned into hailstones which destroyed his


whole crop of corn.

 He had nothing to eat so he decided to seek help from god.

 He wrote a letter to god demanding 100 pesos.

 The post office employees made fun of him. But the post
master decided to help him.

 He collected 70 pesos from his own effort.

 But Lencho was angry to receive 70 pesos in place of 100.

 He wrote another letter to god demanding rest of the


money.

 He also requested to send the money through another


means because what he believed that post office
employees were bunch of crooks.

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