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Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter ‘God’?
The postmaster sent money to Lencho in order to keep Lencho’s faith in God alive. He turned serious when he read Lencho’s letter and wished he had the same faith in God. Even after he saw that Lencho had requested for money, he stuck to his resolution of answering the letter. He gathered as much money as he could and sent it to Lencho. He signed it ‘God’ so that Lencho’s faith would not get shaken.
Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
No. Lencho did not try to find out who sent the money to him for he believed that God sent the money to him in answer to the letter he wrote to God.
However, upon receiving the money and counting it, he wrote another letter addressed to God advising him not to send the funds through the mail because the money he received was less than the money he asked for. He thought that the employees in the post office took the missing amount.
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.]
Lencho thought that the post office employees had taken the rest of the money. The irony of the situation was that the employees whom he called a “bunch of crooks” and suspected of taking some of the money were the same people who had contributed and sent him the money in the first place.
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.
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Greedy |
Naïve |
stupid |
ungrateful |
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selfish |
comical |
unquestioning |
There might be a few people like Lencho in the real world. He is an unquestioning, naïve kind of a person.
Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
Lencho had complete faith in God. The sentences in the story that show this are as follows:
(i) But in the hearts of all who lived in that solitary house in the middle of the valley, there was a single hope: help from God.
(ii) All through the night, Lencho thought only of his one hope: the help of God, whose eyes, as he had been instructed, see everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience.
(iii) “God,” he wrote, “if you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year.”
(iv) He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope, put the letter inside and, still troubled, went to town.
(v) God could not have made a mistake, nor could he have denied Lencho what he had requested.
(vi) It said: “God: of the money that I asked for, only seventy pesos reached me. Send me the rest, since I need it very much.”
There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
The conflict between nature and humans is by " the unsupportive climatic conditions in the process to attain progressive results ".
The conflict among humans themselves is "the concept for money collection is for one purpose, and the process the money spent is way far".
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