Summary- A Letter to God - Class 10 PDF Download

Lencho is the main character of the story “The Letter to God.” He is a poor farmer who is the sole bread-earner of the family. He had faith in God. Lencho lived in a small house which was situated on the crest of a low hill in the valley. His house was the only house in the entire valley. He lived with his wife and his sons. The elder ones used to work with him in the fields and the younger ones played near the house. Throughout the morning Lencho sat in his house and waited for the rain to come. He wished for the rain or the shower for his field in which he had grown his crops. The rain would help his crops to get prepared for their harvest. He saw the sky in the North-east. He assumed that they would be getting a good rain that day. This would help his crops to grow more effectively. Lencho wrote the letter to God as he thought that he would be the only one to help him in his bad times. He wrote a letter addressing to God to send him 100 pesos so that he and his family can survive in such a difficult situation.   The postman in the story "A Letter to God" was of a very humble and kind in nature. When he saw that a person had written a letter addressing to the God he read the letter and decided to help the innocent person. He very well knew that there is no address of God to which he will deliver Lencho's letter. Hence he decided to not let Lencho's emotions down and help him by contributing money. But after seeing Lencho second letter everyone including the postman felt very sad as he had complained to God about the people working the post office.  Lencho became sad when he didn't receive the total amount of money in the envelope. He hoped that God will be there to help him. When he found that the total amount was not in the envelope he wrote another letter to God requesting him that next time he should give money directly to him and not through the post as the people working in the post office are corrupt and had bad eyes on the money.  Lencho called the post office employees "a bunch of crooks" because he thought that they have taken half of the money which God had send to him.  After seeing Lencho's reaction there are chances that people may think that humans have lost faith and trust amongst each other. What Lencho did was out of his faith in God. He thought that it was God was had to send him the money. If he would have thought rationally then he would have come to the conclusion that God was not the sender of the money. His irrational approach makes readers think that he had no consideration for humans.