Letter to god

• Lencho is a farmer who writes a letter to God when his crops are ruined, asking for a hundred pesos
• Lencho's letter reaches the post office and is read by the postmaster
• The postmaster decides to send money to Lencho and signs the letter as 'God'
• Lencho receives the money but is angry because he only receives seventy pesos
• Lencho writes another letter to God, asking for the rest of the money and stating that he doesn't want it sent through the mail
• Relative clauses provide more information about Lencho and the woman
• Relative clauses begin with relative pronouns like who, whom, whose, and which
• Non-defining relative clauses are used when we already know the identity of the person being described
• Non-defining relative clauses usually have a comma in front and after them
• Common meanings of 'hope' include:

  • A feeling that something good will probably happen
  • Stopped believing that a good thing would happen
  • Wanting something to happen
  • Showing concern to not offend or disturb someone
  • Wishing for something to happen, although unlikely
• Metaphors compare two things or ideas by transferring a quality or feature from one to another
• Examples of metaphors in the story:

  • The leg of the table
  • The heart of the city
• Using negatives for emphasis:

  • Sentences with words like no, not, or nothing show absence or contradiction
  • Negative words can be used to emphasize an idea
• Sentences with negative words in the story that express ideas emphatically:

  • The trees lost all their leaves
  • The letter was addressed to God himself
  • The postman saw this address for the first time in his career