A Letter to God Long Questions Answers
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In this post, I am sharing with you A Letter to God Long Questions Answers, which are likely to be asked in CBSE Class 10th Board Exam 2023-24. I would suggest to learn all these questions if you want to do well in the CBSE Board Exam Class 10th 2023-24.
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Long Questions Answers from A Letter to God
Answer the following questions in 100-120 words:
1. In ‘A Letter to God’, Lencho writes a letter to God in despair, asking him to send the required money. He goes to the post office himself to drop the letter in the mailbox. Based on your understanding of the story and the characters, develop a conversation between the postmaster and the post office employees after reading Lencho’s letter to ‘God’.
Answer – Postman: Look what I found for the first time in my whole career! A letter addressed to ‘God’. Office Employees: What do you mean? This is so funny. (Everybody laughing heartily)
Post master: Show it to me. Ah! What a faith! I wish I had half of it. He seems to be such a naïve person. I don’t want to shake his deep faith in God. Let’s help him.
Office employees: But how can we do that? What if he comes to know that we did it and it eventually breaks his faith in ‘God’?
Post master: It won’t. We will donate as much money as we all can and send it in a letter signed as ‘God’
Office employees: That’s great. It will keep his faith in God intact.
2. Read the extracts given below and evaluate the difference in the nature of faith in both the characters.
(A) “What faith! I wish I had the faith of the man who wrote this letter. Starting up a correspondence with God!”
(B) “God,” he wrote, “if you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year. I need a hundred pesos in order to sow my field again and to live until the crop comes, because the hailstorm….”
Answer – On one hand, we have the post master who was quite elated to witness such an unquestionable faith of a person in God and on the other, we have Lencho who had that faith.
(A) The postmaster was a person of deep faith in humanity. He appreciated that Lencho had such a strong faith in God that he had written a letter addressed to ‘God’ in order to ask him for help. The postmaster wished to emulate the same faith in himself. He decided to help Lencho to keep his belief in God intact. He didn’t want Lencho’s faith to be shaken.
(B) Lencho on the other hand, had a deep faith in God but no faith in humanity. When in despair of the destruction caused to his crops by the hailstorm, his only ray of hope was God. So, he asked God to send him hundred pesos. But his faith in God was so blind that due to it, he blamed the post office employees who helped him like God’s messengers.
A Letter to God Long Questions Answers
3. Lencho says, “These aren’t raindrops falling from the sky, they are new coins. The big drops are ten cent pieces and the little ones are fives.” Examine the given comparison based on your reading of the story ‘A Letter to God’.
Answer – Lencho was a poor hard-working farmer who had worked in his corn field like an ox of a man. He feared that all of his hard work will go void if it doesn’t rain as rain was necessary for his crops to yield a good harvest for the year. When he saw big black clouds in the sky, Lencho got very happy. His hope for a good rainfall increased. So, when the rain started, Lencho compared the raindrops to the new coins as the rain would ensure a good harvest for him which would in turn, mean money for him. He compared the big raindrops with the ten cents pieces and the little ones with the five cent pieces as the more it would rain, the more money he would get and vice-versa. He did the comparison in enthusiasm, hoping to make a good fortune.
4. Describe Lencho’s qualities in light of his faith in God. Do you have faith in God like Lencho? Was Lencho’s reaction towards post office employees right? [CBSE 2015]
Answer – Lencho was a destitute peasant whose crops were totally destroyed due to the heavy hailstorm. He had to suffer a huge loss due to it. He was petrified of the fact that he and his family would have to spend the entire year hungry as they had nothing to survive on. In the moment of despair, his only ray of hope was God. He believed that God would help him in this plight. He had firm faith in God and believed that God would not let him and his family die of hunger.
Yes, I do have a strong belief in God like Lencho. I believe that God is the only one who never disappoints a person at the time of predicament. Lencho’s reaction towards the post office employees was not right. He doubted them to be the ‘crooks’ who have stolen the money but in fact, it were the post office employees only who had helped Lencho by donating their share of money for him.
5. The postmaster was a representative of God. Critically examine this statement in the context of your understanding of ‘A Letter to God”. [CBSE Question Bank 2021]
Answer – The Postmaster was a representative of God. He was an epitome of humanity. At first, when he saw the letter addressed to ‘God’, on he laughed at it but then after reading it, he was amazed by Lencho’s deep faith in God. So, he decided to help him on behalf of God. He decided to collect some money by asking his fellow post office employees and his friends to contribute their share to it.
He himself donated a part of his own salary to the cause. He wanted to help Lencho to keep his belief in God intact. He didn’t want Lencho’s faith to be shaken.
Lencho’s unshakeable faith in God made the postmaster, a representative of God. God ultimately helped Lencho through the postmaster.
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