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Analyzing Langston Hughes 'Story Salvation'

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Diego Rivero
Professor. Mitchell
TS 113C
13 July 2015
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Have you ever thought how it should feel to be saved by Jesus? In the story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes, we can see through his own experience how this was for him. Clearly this was a critical situation in his life, since he was really affected. In the story, Langston is a twelve years old children going on thirteen, with a normal innocence of this age. As a kid, Langston is almost incapable of deceit, but this changes when he loses important things for his life such as expectation, faith, and more important, honesty.
In the first place, Langston is almost forced to go to a revival reunion at his Auntie Reed’s church. He goes with expectation because his Auntie spoke of it for days. Just before the reunion ended takes place a special meeting …show more content…

The preacher uses this story to say next “Won’t you come? Won’t you come to Jesus? Young lambs, won’t you come?” (Hughes), referring to the children as innocent creatures. And it worked, some of the kids jumped up right away and went to Jesus, but some of them remains sited, including Langston. Suddenly, all the church was singing a song, and the entire building was excited. Finally all the children went to the altar to be saved, but not Langston. He is still waiting to feel something, as well as this other boy named Westley who went to the altar couple of minutes later, not because he felt the presence of Jesus inside of him, but because he felt heat and fatigue, so he preferred to lie. While the whole congregation is prayed for Langston and his aunt is crying at his knees, he is still waiting for Jesus to come, but he did not. Under this pressure Langston starts to lose his faith, he knows that nothing will happen, he is tired of waiting and finally decides to get up to be

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