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Chapter 1:A Letter to God

'A letter to God' is a story of tremendous trust in god. The writer had tried to portray the conviction of a poor and simple farmer in god. Lencho was a sincere and hardworking farmer. Once there was a hailstorm which devastated his crop completely. Lencho had a huge faith in God. He sent a letter to god asking him to send him some money. The postmaster saw this letter and decided to help Lencho. He collected some money and put it inside an envelope. When Lencho came to the post office to check his mail, the post office people gave him that envelope. Lencho opened the envelope and took out the money and started counting it. He found that it was less than what he had asked for. So, he wrote another letter to God and asked God to send him the rest of the money. But this time he wanted God not to send the money through mail. He thought that a gang of crooks had stolen his thirty pesos from the hundred pesos sent by God.

Chapter 1: Poem 1- Dust of Snow

The poet is upset and sitting under the hemlock tree. All of sudden, a crow sitting on the tree shakes the tree and the fine particles of snow from tree start falling on the poet. The soft, smooth and cold touch of snow changes the poet's mood from sad to happy. He starts feeling calm, soothed and refreshed. In this way a simple momen t proves to be very major and saves rest of the day of poet from being whacked and be disappointed. A black crow is commonly a symbol of death and fear. Since the crow is not associated with righteousness, it is ironical that in this poem, it is doing a good deed by shaking off the snow. Robert Frost didn't use an oak, maple or pin e tree rather he chose the hemlock tree which is typically associated with impurity and toxicity. However, the beautiful snow that covers the poisonous hemlock tree and its branches is shaken off  by  a  creepy  crow. Robert Frost uses the elements of the fearsome crow and poisonous Hemlock tree to do good - shake the white, pure snow off the branches. The good act makes the person who wanted to commit suicide change his mind about killing himself. The small act causes the man to have a tolerant insight. He decides to live, not remember the regret and sorrow and enable healing.

So, the poem shows that if we can take the hard times of life in pace something will happen which will change the worse situations into happier times. The simple things that we do for others can make a difference. Noticing and appreciating the small things in life will make us happy and have courage to change and succeed.

Chapter 1: Poem 2 - Fire and Ice

The poet talks about the two different beliefs regarding the end of this world. He says that he is in the support of those who say that the world will end in fire as he has seen the effect and outcome of enduring and never-ending wishes. He finds the human desires are same to fire in nature. On the other hand, the second belief says that ice is adequate for destroying this world and the poet compares the nature of ice with disgust. As ice can make any body part numb with its long-lasting contact similarly hatred can make our minds numb and our thoughts tactless and nasty. The speaker brings us to a disagreement between people who think the world we all come to a scorching end and people who think the world will freeze. He could be talking about the factual end of the world, but he's also talking about the power that human beings have to harm one another. The speaker's experience with passion the desire taught him that adoring or "hot" emotion like love and desire would have the authority to turn the earth into a huge fireball. But he has also experienced the other extreme and he knows that emotions like hate have huge demeaning effects. Love gets all the praises, but hate is quiet killer. It may not have the same spend ours.