A Letter to God

      I read a short story called "A Letter to God" written by Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes. It tells of a farmer who is expecting rain for his crops and rejoices, but instead, it turns into a storm and hail, and his crops are ruined. Dismayed, he decides to write a letter to God, asking for 100 pesos so that he can start anew. The man at the post office sees this, and knowing that it was impossible to send a physical letter to God, decides to help him out in secret. However, he was unable to collect 100 pesos, so he puts seventy pesos into an envelope and gives it back to the farmer next day. The farmer, counting the money, then gets angry and rewrites a letter to God, and when the post officer opens it, he finds a letter asking God to send him thirty more pesos, but not by mail, because "the post-office employees are a bunch of crooks."
      I decided to write about this story because this story cracked me up when I first read this. At first, I felt sympathy and pity for the farmer, because he lost all his crops in the storm. However, you begin to feel sympathy for the post office employee instead, because when he read the farmer's letter, he could just as easily have dismissed the letter as a joke and discarded it, but he felt bad for the farmer and decided to help him out to the best of his power. However, The farmer gets mad just because he did not get thirty pesos, which makes you lose sympathy for him. The characters are very interesting, because the post office employee shows us that he is very kind and wants to help others, while the farmer is hard-working but does not know how to appreciate others' help. I wrote about this story because I enjoyed it immensely, and I recommend it to you as well.