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    Lucifer Morningstar better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

    There are two themes in the story “A Letter to God” – Blind-faith and Two Sides of the Same Story. Blind-faith The story reflects the blind-faith of the peasant. The crops are destroyed by the storm but the peasant takes it as a divine action. He writes a letter to God (height of blind-faith) and fiRead more

    There are two themes in the story “A Letter to God” – Blind-faith and Two Sides of the Same Story.

    Blind-faith

    The story reflects the blind-faith of the peasant. The crops are destroyed by the storm but the peasant takes it as a divine action. He writes a letter to God (height of blind-faith) and finding the money he believes that it has been given by God himself. Even when he finds 70 Passos, he is not pleased as he thinks that God must have given 100 Passos but the post-man might have stolen 30 Passos.

    The story reflects the mentality of illiterates and poor people of villages and also the sympathetic nature of people like Postman.

    Two Sides of a Story

    The other theme which is mainly reflected in this short story is the two different sides of the same story. Lencho, the farmer is an uneducated person and full of blind-faith. He is unaware of the reality. Hence rather than thanking the employees of Post Office, he calls them greedy and bunch of crooks. This is the irony in the story.

    On the other hand, the post-master who was moved by the innocence of the farmer never expected such response of the farmer.

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    Lencho, a peasant who is quite hard working and dedicated in his works meets a tragedy when a hailstorm destroys all his crops. being poor and having no other resources to feed his family. He gets depressed. His wife knows who knows well about her husband’s faith is God urges him to pray to Him andRead more

    Lencho, a peasant who is quite hard working and dedicated in his works meets a tragedy when a hailstorm destroys all his crops. being poor and having no other resources to feed his family. He gets depressed. His wife knows who knows well about her husband’s faith is God urges him to pray to Him and believe in Him.

    Lencho being an uneducated person thinks that God exists in real and thus writes to Him asking for divine help and some money to help him sustain his family.

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    Lucifer Morningstar better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

    In the short story “A Letter to God” written by Gregorio Lopez Fuentes, a poor but very hard-working farmer looses his crop in a hailstorm and is grieved by the loss. Having strong faith in God, he writes a letter to Him seeking His divine help and requests Him 100 Passos. The postmaster reads the lRead more

    In the short story “A Letter to God” written by Gregorio Lopez Fuentes, a poor but very hard-working farmer looses his crop in a hailstorm and is grieved by the loss. Having strong faith in God, he writes a letter to Him seeking His divine help and requests Him 100 Passos.

    The postmaster reads the letter and is moved by the innocence of the peasant. He and other employees arrange 70 Passos for him and wait for the smile on peasant’s face after receiving the money.

    The farmer comes to post-office and goes away with the money. However he returns back and writes another letter to God. The postmaster open the letter. To his surprise, the farmer has requested God not to send money to post-office again as according to him, the greedy employees of Post-office had taken 30 Passos.

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    Lucifer Morningstar better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

    Lencho is the protagonist or in simple words main character of the short story A Letter to God. He is a poor farmer but is very dedicated and hard-working. We find that he leaves no stone unturned to feed his family and fulfil their needs. However he is also an uneducated person and without knowledgRead more

    Lencho is the protagonist or in simple words main character of the short story A Letter to God. He is a poor farmer but is very dedicated and hard-working. We find that he leaves no stone unturned to feed his family and fulfil their needs.

    However he is also an uneducated person and without knowledge, he is unable to make a difference between belief and reality. For him God lives on the earth and it is possible to communicate to Him.

    So he writes a letter to God and when he gets the money, he is not surprised at all. Rather he is angry over the employees for stealing some amount because his firmly believes that God has sent complete money. Lencho is thus very innocent as well.

    Read the detailed summary of A Letter to God.

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    The short story A Letter to God is about the innocence of a poor farmer who becomes a victim of natural calamity. The author in this short story throws light on two important things: Blind-faith Lencho being uneducated has too much belief in God. For him God is on earth and one can easily have a disRead more

    The short story A Letter to God is about the innocence of a poor farmer who becomes a victim of natural calamity. The author in this short story throws light on two important things:

    Blind-faith

    Lencho being uneducated has too much belief in God. For him God is on earth and one can easily have a discussion with Him or even can ask for help. Hence he writes a letter to Him seeking His help.

    The employees are moved by the innocence of Lencho and thus collect money for him so that him belief in God may remain firm. The irony of the story is that he takes the postmen as thieves as he thinks that they have stolen his money. Thus blind-faith is a dangerous thing

    Corruption

    We have discussed above that Lencho is uneducated. However the poet highlights how common corruption is in the society that even illiterate and innocent people like Lencho are also well aware of this social evil.

    Read the detailed summary of A Letter to God

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