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The phrase conveys the hope that things Lencho, the farmer, hoped for the hailstorm
will eventually work out as wanted or in to pass quickly as prolonged heavy rain
the best way. would destroy his crops.
(iv) Give one word to describe the woman. (iii) Did ‘it’ pass quickly? For how long did ‘it’
continue?
Lencho’s wife can be described as
optimistic. It did not pass quickly and continued for
an hour.
3 The man went out for no other reason (iv) What implications did it have?
than to have the pleasure of feeling the
rain on his body, and when he returned The hailstorm had serious implications.
he exclaimed, “These aren’t raindrops Lencho’s cornfield was rendered white as
falling from the sky, they are new coins. the corn was completely destroyed. The
The big drops are ten cent pieces and flowers too were gone from the plants.
the little ones are fives.”
5 When the storm had passed, he stood
(i) Who is referred to as ‘the man’? in the middle of the field and said to his
sons, “A plague of locusts would have
Lencho is referred to as ‘the man’ here.
left more than this.”
(ii) What made him so excited about the rain?
(i) Describe the storm.
He had been waiting for the rain
throughout the day as his cornfield was in The rain fell like ‘new coins’, the big and
need of some water. He was excited to see little ones. The cornfield was draped in a
‘huge mountains of clouds’ approaching. curtain of rain. But suddenly a strong wind
began to blow and the rain turned into a
(iii) Where did he return? And why?
hailstorm. Very large hailstones fell for an
He returned to his family, who were busy hour and the field was covered with ‘frozen
eating dinner, to share his joy on the arrival pearls’.
of rain.
(ii) Who is ‘he’ here? Why did he stand in the
(iv) Which figure of speech is used by the middle of the field? How did he feel?
author here? What does it signify?
‘He’ is Lencho. He stood in the middle of
The figure of speech used here is the the field to assess the damage done to it by
metaphor ‘new coins’ to refer to the the hailstorm. He felt sad and wretched as
raindrops falling from the sky. This nothing was left of the crop.
signifies huge profits that Lencho will get (iii) Explain the expression ‘a plague of locusts’.
to reap.
‘A plague of locusts’ is a powerful and
4 “It’s really getting bad now,” exclaimed damaging natural disaster that destroys
the man. “I hope it passes quickly.” rich vegetation. It has been used here
to suggest that the damage done by the
(i) What does ‘it’ refer to? hailstorm was greater than what a plague
of locusts could have wreaked.
‘It’ refers to the hailstorm.
(iv) Which literary technique is employed here?
(ii) Why did the man hope for ‘it’ to pass
quickly? An emotive image of the conflict between
man and nature is evoked here. The author
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