A letter to god summary

Lencho and his family are waiting for the rain that will nourish their crops. They require the money from the harvest to support themselves and feed the family. When the clouds gather, though, it's not rain that comes down—it's hail. It destroys all the crops until there's nothing left. Lencho decides to write a letter to God and ask for help. He asks for 100 pesos to buy new seeds and plant a new set of crops. Then he puts it in the mailbox and hopes that God will answer it. The postmaster looks at the address on the letter but knows that he can't send it. However, he admires the man's faith and wants to help him. He raises money from his employees, others, and himself and comes up with 60 pesos. Then he puts the money in an envelope and signs it God. When Lencho gets the letter with the money, he writes an angry reply. The postmaster reads it and sees that Lencho has asked God to send the rest of the money—but not via the post office. He believes the postal employees stole 40 pesos of the money that God sent him. A Mexican peasant, Lencho, is distraught because a hailstorm has totally destroyed his crops and his family will have no food or money through the winter to come. He is a simple man of great faith in God and writes a letter asking for the modest sum of one hundred pesos. He mails the letter addressed to "Dios", and the village postmaster opens it and reads it. Moved by the ridiculousness of such a request but also by the peasant's simple but strong faith, the po...

Title: A LETTER TO GOD 1 A LETTER TO GOD Prepared by - Nityanandesh Narayan Tripathi PGT English Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya 2 There was a farmer in Philippines. His name was Lencho. 3 He lived with his wife and children. His house was alone in the valley. He had no friend or neighbor. 4 He had cultivated corns in his field. And he waited for a good rain shower to get a good harvest. 5 Rain came. Lencho was very happy but along with rain strong wind also came. Hence the rain was changed into hailstorm. The whole valley was covered with white hail. 6 Corn field was destroyed by hailstorm. 7 Lencho was very sad at the loss of his crop. Now he had no other option to get money and feed his family. 8 Lencho had no neighbour to take help. So he decided to take help from God. He wrote a letter to God and requested to send 100 Pesos through mail. Letter was dropped in letter box. 9 At the post office letter was first received by post man who laughed at the foolishness of Lencho. But the post man was very considerate. To protect the faith of Lencho in God he collected money from employees and send it to Lencho through mail. At the place of sign he put God. 10 Next day Lencho came to post office. After receiving the letter he got angry when he counted the money. Instead of 100 Pesos the letter had only 70 Pesos. He believed that rest amount was stolen by post office people. He called them Bunch of Crooks and wrote another letter to God with request to send remaining amount but not th...

1.1.1 Conclusion of A letter to God Summary of A Letter to God In this article, you will be reading about a letter to God summary. The author of the story,” A Letter to God” is G.L. Fuentes. He was one of the greatest writers of that time. He was a Mexican poet, novelist and also journalist. The story revolves around the idea of having unquestionable faith in God. The story here is the one taking place in a Latin American country. Lencho, a farmer, who is the protagonist of the story, writes a letter to God. In the letter, he seeks help from the Almighty as he discovers his entire crop yield has been destroyed by a devastating hailstorm. Although his wishes get fulfilled partially, if not completely, he remains ungrateful in the end. Moreover, he questions the honesty and modesty of the post-masters. However, these were the only beings who actually helped him with money (anonymously) in the name of God. A Letter to God Summary in English Lencho was a dedicated farmer. He was expecting a decent harvest. However, to his grief, a hail storm came and destroyed his harvest completely. Lencho was very sad. However, he had a strong belief in God. He was certain that God would help him. Also, he was an extremely straightforward man. Although working for a long time on the farm, he knew writing. Thus, he composed a letter to God. In the letter, he asked God to send him one hundred pesos. At that point, he went to the post office and put his letter into the post box. The postman rem...

One day while waiting for his wife calls him and the boys in to have dinner. As soon as they step inside, the rain-laden clouds appear over the mountains. Lencho goes out to enthrall in the falling droplets which he calls as falling coins. But soon his delight turns into despair as the rain is followed by a severe hailstorm. In a matter of hours, his entire field and its crops are covered by white hailstones. There is not a single crop left unscathed. Lencho’s heart sinks into melancholy. His wife encourages him to keep faith in God, who helps those in need and feeds the hungry. Lencho is a truly faithful person as well. He decides to ask for divine help, literally through a written appeal. He takes a paper and scribbles his appeal for 100 pesos and He carries the letter to the town post office himself and affixes the postage stamp to make it official. Then he lingers back to his village house in the valley. Back at the post office, a postman collects the letter and brings it to the notice of his postmaster. They both are amused by the address on the letter but soon realize and admire the sheer strength of faith in Lencho’s words. They read the letter and realize his predicament as well. Trying to preserve Lencho’s resolute faith and in the process help a desperate man, the entire post office contributes their share to pool money for the farmer. They are able to scrounge up 70 pesos and put it inside an envelope with a letter signed by ‘God’. The next weekend when Lencho a...

Gregorio López y Fuentes The house – the only one in the whole valley – was up on one of those flattened hills which, like rudimentary pyramids, had been left by a few tribes as they continued on their pilgrimages… amid the cornstalks, the beans with their purple flowers, an unmistakable presage of a good harvest. The only thing the land needed was some rain, at least one strong downpour, the kind that leaves puddles among the furrows. Doubting that it would rain would be the same as disbelieving in the experience of those who, by tradition, determined the specific day of the year on which the seeds were to be sown. The whole morning, Lencho, who knew the land well, and adhered with dogged belief to the old ways, had done nothing more than stare at the sky in the direction of the northeast. “Now the rain really is on its way, woman.” And the woman, who was preparing the midday meal, answered: “God willing.” The bigger children were clearing the weeds out of the crops, while the smaller ones were scampering around near the house, until the woman shouted out to all of them: “Come in and get it!” It was during the meal when, just as Lencho had predicted, fat drops of rain began to fall. Great mountains of clouds rolled in from the northeast. The air smelt of fresh water. “Just imagine, lads,” exclaimed the man while he revelled in the joy of getting drenched, using the excuse of picking up some belongings left on a stone wall outside, “that they’re not drops of rain that are ...