EVENTS CONVENT HIGH SCHOOL29/07/2021 CLASS-10 SESSION2021-22(SLOT-1)ENGLISHChapter-1A letter to God_______________________________________
Answer the
following questions:-
Question 1.What
did Lencho hope for?
Answer:Lencho hoped for a good rain as it was much
needed for a good harvest.
Question 2.Why did
Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?
Answer:Lencho compared the raindrops with new coins
because they were promising him a good harvest resulting in more prosperity.
Question 3.How did
the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
Answer: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.
Question 4.What
were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?
Answer: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.
Question 5.Who or
what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Answer: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.
Question 6.Was
Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Answer:Lencho was not surprised to find a letter
with money from God as he believed that God will help him.
Question 7.What
made Lencho angry?
Answer:There were only seventy pesos in the envelope
whereas Lencho had demanded a hundred pesos. The difference in the amount made
him angry.
Question 8.Who does
Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in the
situation? (Remember that the irony of a situation is an unexpected aspect of
it. An ironic situation is strange or amusing because it is the opposite of
what is expected).
Answer: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.
Question 9.Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What
kind of a person would you say he is? You may select appropriate words from the
box to answer the question.
Greedy
Naive
Stupid
Ungrateful
Selfish
Comical
Unquestioning
Answer: 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
