A Letter to God NCERT Solutions & Extra Questions | Class 10 English Chapter 1
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Introduction:
Welcome to the article, “A Letter to God NCERT Solutions & Extra Questions | Class 10 English Chapter 1.” We at Education Mantras with you NCERT solutions along with the extra questions given in the NCERT textbook of English for Class 10. You can check the chapter-wise question-answers, additional exercises and extra question answers of the NCERT textbook “First Flight” for Class 10. These solutions help you to understand the chapter “A Letter to God” completely. In this chapter, the author expresses the faith of the main character ‘Lencho’ to the god. He asks for 100 pesos to the god for his and his family members’ survival.
Oral Comprehension Check:
Question 1. What did Lencho hope for?
Answer: Lencho hoped for good rains so that his field would have a good harvest.
Question 2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like new coins?
Answer: Lencho thought that the raindrops were like gold coins because as the rain came good his fields would have a good harvest and he would become rich.
Questions 3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
Answer: As the wind strengthened, the rain changed into hail storm and along with the rain, hail started appearing in his field due to which the standing crop in his field got destroyed.
Question 4. What were Lencho’s feeling when the hail stopped?
Answer: After the hail and rain stopped, Lencho was disheartened after seeing his ruined crop and was quite worried about how he would feed his family.
Question 5. Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Answer. Lencho had deep faith in god. He believed that nothing is hidden from God, he knows everything. He wrote a letter to God and demanded 100 pesos so that he could reap the harvest again.
Question 6. Who read the letter?
Answer. In the chapter “A Letter to God”, The letter that is written by Lencho is read by the poet-master.
Question 7. What did the post master do after reading the letter?
Answer. The post firstly read the letter, he thought about Lencho’s faith in god. Then, he insisted his colleagues to collect some pesos to help the poor Lencho.
Question 8. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Answer. Lencho was normal to find a letter for him with money in it because he knew well and believed that the God would send him 100 pesos for sure.
Question 9. What made Lencho angry?
Answer. When Lencho got less than 100 pesos envelope, he got very angry and he thought that the post office employees didn’t give him 100 pesos complete.
Thinking about the text
Question 1. What does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
Answer. Lencho have completed faith in God and he believed that God would try to solve all his problems. This can be seen through some sentences given in the story:
a. But in the harts of all who lived in that solitary house in the middle of the valley; there was a single hope; help from god.
b. All through the night, Lencho thought only of his one hope: the help of God, whose eyes, as he has been instructed, see everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience.
c. “God,” he wrote, “if you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year.
d. He wrote “To God” on the envelope, put the letter inside and, still troubled and went to town.
e. God could not have made a mistake, nor could he have denied Lencho what he had requested.
f. It said: “Of the money I asked for, only seventy pesos reached me. Send me the rest, Since I need it very much.
Question 2. Why does the post master send the money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter God?
Answer. The post master sees the the deep faith of Lencho in God. He doesn’t want Lencho to lose faith in God. He collects some money from his employees and this way he sends 70 pesos to Lencho. He signs the letter with the name God so that Lencho thinks that God has sent him the pesos. He signs the letter in God’s name so that Lencho does not lose faith in God.
Question 3. Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why or why not?
Answer. No, Lencho did not make any effort to find out who had sent him the the m0ney because he had deep faith in God and he could not even think who else had sent him the money.Perhaps her also wondered why anyone other than god would send him money.
Question 4. 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).