Lencho hoped for a good rain as it was much needed for a good harvest.
Lencho compared the raindrops with new coins because they were promising him a good harvest resulting in more prosperity.
The rain changed into hailstones as a strong wind began to blow and huge hailstones began to fall alongwith the rain. All the crops in Lencho’s field got destroyed because of the weather conditions.
Lencho was filled with grief after the hail stopped as everything was ruined and there was nothing that he could feed his family with. He could see a bleak future for him and his family.
Lencho had firm faith in God. He believed ‘ that God sees everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience and help everyone in one’s problems. He wrote a letter to God demanding him a hundred pesos to sow his field again.
Postmaster read the letter.
The postmaster laughed when he read
Lencho’s letter but soon he became serious and was moved by the writer’s faith in God. He didn’t want to shake Lencho’s faith. So, he decided to collect ,money and send it to Lencho on behalf of God.
Lencho was not surprised to find a letter with money from God as he believed that God will help him.
There were only seventy pesos in the envelope whereas Lencho had demanded a hundred pesos. The difference in the amount made him angry.
Lencho has complete faith in God as he is instructed that God knows everything and helps us in our problems. There are few sentences which show this
The postmaster sends money to Lencho in order to keep
Lencho’s faith in God alive and firm as he was completely moved by it.
When postmaster reads the letter of Lencho to God, he becomes serious and does not want to shake his faith and decides to answer the letter. He gathers money with the help of his post office employees and friends on behalf of God and signs the letter ‘God’ so that Lencho’s faith does not get shaken.
Lencho did not try to find out who had sent the money to him because he never suspected the presence of God and had complete faith in God. He could not believe that it could be – anybody else other than him who would send him the money.
His faith in God was so strong that he believed that he had sent money to him for his help in his problem.
Lencho thinks that the post office employees have taken the rest of the money as he had demanded a hundred pesos from God and in the letter there was only seventy pesos and God cannot make such a mistake. So, he assumes that they have stolen the money.
The irony in this situation is that Lencho suspects those people who helped him in his problem and tried to keep his faith alive in God.
It is almost impossible to find a person like Lencho as he is an unquestioning and naive kind of person. He is not stupid if he doesn’t know who has sent him money or a letter will reach God without any address. It is Lencho’s faith in God. In real world, people are selfish and greedy and Lencho is totally lovable and different.
Conflict between Humans and Nature: The conflict between humans and nature is illustrated by the destruction of Lencho’s crop by the hailstorm as Lencho was expecting a good rain to have good harvest as that was the only hope he had for his earning. He worked so hard to feed his family, but nature turned violent and destroyed everything.
Conflict between Humans and Humans: The story also illustrated another conflict, between humans themselves as the postmaster alongwith his friends and staff sent Lencho money that Lencho demanded from God although they didn’t know Lencho. Lencho blamed them for taking away some amount of money. He called them “a bunch of crook”. This shows that man does not have faith in other man, thereby giving rise to this conflict.
cyclone
gale
typhoon
tornado
Hurricane
whirlwind
| A | B | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Will you get the subjects you want to study in college? I hope so. | (a) | a feeling that something good will probably happen. |
| 2. | 2. 1 hope you don’t mind my saying this but 1 don’t like the way you are arguing. | (b) | (b) thinking that this would happen (it may or may not have happened.) |
| 3. | 3. This discovery will give new hope to HIV/AIDS sufferers. | (c) | (c) stopped believing that this good thing would happen. |
| 4. | 4. We were hoping against hope that the judges would not notice our mistakes. | (d) | (d) wanting something to happen (and thinking it quite possible) |
| 5. | 5. 1 called early in the hope of speaking to her before she went to school. | (e) | (e) showing concern that what you say should not offend or disturb the other person a way of being polite. |
| 6. | 6. Just when everybody had given up hope, the fishermen came back, seven days after the cyclone. | (f) | (f) wishing for something to happen, although this is very unlikely. |
I often go to Mumbai which is the commercial capital of India.
My Mother who cooks very well, is going to host a TV show on cooking.
These sportspersons, whose performance has been excellent, are going to meet the President.
Lencho prayed to God, whose eyes see into our minds.
This man whom I trusted cheated me.
(a) The trees lost all their leaves.
(b) The letter was addressed to God himself.
(c) The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
Answer:(a) Not a leaf remained on the trees.
(b) It was nothing less than a letter to God.
(c) Never in his career as a postman had he seen that address.
| Object | Metaphor | Quality or Feature Compared |
| Cloud | Huge mountains of clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains |
| Raindrops | ||
| Hailstones | ||
| Locusts | An ox of a man | An epidemic (a disease) (hat spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead |
| Object | Metaphor | Quality or Feature Compared |
| Cloud | Huge mountains of clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains |
| Raindrops | Coins | Money that a good crop will bring |
| Hailstones | Frozen pearls | brightness of pearls |
| Locusts | a plague of locusts | An epidemic (a disease) (that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead |
| Lencho | An ox of a man | strong |