Hughes’s recalls this event because it eternally reshaped the way he views his religion. His whole faith is transformed to something that denounced his earlier beliefs, and he wants to share that experience. The author’s portrayal of the revival meeting is extremely realistic. What techniques does Hughes’s use to make it realistic? Hughes uses metaphors to compare the children to young lambs. Hughes also uses strong language to describe the five senses so fully that I can picture the moment in my mind. Why does Hughes spend time talking now about Westley? How is young Langston different from this boy? Westley is the other boy that wasn't saved by Jesus. Westley then got up, took God’s name in vain, and lied in church. Langston was shocked that …show more content…
What does the author’s waiting so long to be “saved” tell you about him? It tells me that he really believes that he will “see” Jesus, so he didn't like the fact that he lied to finish the ceremony. He is an honest person, and he looks back on that and is ashamed. Explain why Langston cried so much after coming home. Is there only one reason behind his tears? What does the last paragraph tell you about young Langston? Langston crime so much because his good character was disappointed in the fact that he lied in church. Another reason he was so upset was that he couldn't bear to tell his aunt that he didn't believe in Jesus because it meant so much to her that he believed in him. What examples of metaphoric language do you find in this essay? Cite 3 examples. How do these figures of speech help Hughes accomplish his purpose? In one metaphor, Hughes compares the children about to be revived to Lambs of God. Waves of rejoicing swept the place. Suddenly, the whole room broke into a sea of shouting. It gives the reader something to compare the experience to if you can't quite understand the point the …show more content…
When Westley and I were the last children waiting to be saved, he cursed in church, and lie! Although I knew it was wrong, I knew that there wasn't a consequence for lying, so got up and was saved to save everyone the trouble of sitting at the church all day. 4. If you could relive this experience and change the decisions you made for a better outcome, would you? I could say that I would change what happened when my aunt asked me why I didn't come to be saved by Jesus. Had I told her that I didn't see him in the church, she might have informed me that you didn't see Jesus, but you felt his presence with you through your faith, and I would have been with him forever. However, I never would have written this story if I didn't feel such a strong sensation of rejection and betrayal, so I have no regrets. Stephanie Ciarochi Mrs. Tidwell English 1 27 October 2017 Part 3, Essay I was pressured by my Russian coaches to compete at a qualifying competition on a fractured foot, but it was for a chance to compete at the national championships. Langston Hughes was also pressured at a religious revival to “see” Jesus and become a part of his aunt’s faith in his story,
Langston Hughes’ short essay, “Salvation,” is a controversial yet interesting story that brings many conflicts between people in society. He discusses his personal point of view about his religious experience. Although religion has impacted many people throughout the years, it is still an extremely debatable topic. Many people believe that if you go to church you’ll be good for the rest of your life and just because you convince them as kid to behave a certain way, it will stop them from making poor choices, but it does not always work that way. Religion has historically been a problem for so long; it has divided humanity in so many ways. This story represents how much religion can use fear to gain power, but it also brings a sense of hope
'Salvation', by Langston Hughes is part of an autobiographical work written in 1940. The author narrates a story centering on a revival gathering that happened in his childhood. During the days leading up to the event, Hughes' aunt tells him repeatedly that he will be 'saved', stressing that he will see a light and Jesus will come into his life. He attends the meeting but when Jesus fails to appear, he is forced by peer pressure to lie and go up and be 'saved'. Hughes uses his story to illustrate how easy it is for children to misinterpret adults and subsequently become disillusioned.
Novelist Langston Hughes short story “Salvation” discusses his personal point of view about his religious beliefs. Religion has historically been a problem for so long and has divided humanity because of it. The story represents how much religion can use fear to bring itself power but also has brought a sense of hope and inspiration to others. For Hughes it was just a call for help. Hughes was in a difficult situation when he was just thirteen years old.
Langston Hughes’ short essay, “Salvation,” is a controversial yet interesting story that brings many conflicts between people in society. He discusses his personal point of view about his religious experience. Although religion has impacted many people throughout the years, it is still an extremely debatable topic. Many people believe that if you go to church you’ll be good for the rest of your life and just because you convince them as kid to behave a certain way, it will stop them from making poor choices, but it does not always work that way. Religion has historically been a problem for so long; it has divided humanity in so many ways. This story represents how much religion can use fear to gain power, but it also brings a sense of hope
Furthermore, Hughes uses the rhetorical device of allusion when he writes about his aunt’s bringing him to the church for a special meeting. When he writes, “Then just before the revival ended, they held a special meeting for children, ‘to bring the young lambs to the fold’’’ (1), he attempts to correlate his invitation to salvation to a Biblical parable. Along with his reference to the Bible, he conveys the church member’s excitement with vivid imagery. He illustrates the church’s setting as being infuse with “all moans and shouts and lonely cries and dire pictures of hell”, and he also describes the preacher’s sermon as a “wonderful rhythmical sermon” (3). Conjointly, Hughes presents imagery of the churchgoers and alludes to a Biblical story in order to demonstrate the magnitude of the religious enthusiasm of the members of the church.
Salvation by Langston Hughes is a short story that explains dealings with religion and basic beliefs. In the story, Hughes attends a revival at his church with his aunt. Prior conversations with his aunt had given Hughes the impression that when you are saved you see a light and you feel something inside of you. Aware that a time of the service would be dedicate to bringing youth to Jesus, Hughs heads down to the designated row and listens to the pastor, sang when necessary and awaited the time that "the light of Jesus would be shown to him". One by one children handed their lives over to Jesus, still awaiting the feeling Hughes sat and searched for anything that could match the description that he had been given. As time goes on church goers
Langston was a twelve year old who majority of his time in the church with his aunt. As he grew up he saw the many changes of people and faces the church. Langston was starting to lose faith. He did not know if he should believe there was a Jesus. Langston gave up hope on Jesus when he was lost and confused, and he felt there was no one there to help him in his time of need. Hughes' faced some challenging experiences and this demonstrated to him how adults may confuse children, especially when adults don't take the time to explain the religious metaphors children are trying to understand. Langston’s, Auntie Reed is primarily responsible for his loss of faith at an early age. Langston’s aunt should of taken the time explaining to Langston that Jesus' words were as they appear in The Sermon on the Mount serve as a useful guide for living one's life, she told him that "when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to your insides!" At that point when Langston heard those words he was more confused than before. Langston wanted to make sense of the information his Auntie Reed was sharing with him but he
The short essay by Langston Hughes takes place in Kansas during the year 1915. Langton’s mother had left and went north in search of a job. Meanwhile, his father abandoned the family and went to Mexico, with no plans on coming back. Leaving Langston to live with his grandmother. However, after his grandmother’s death, Mary and James Reed took Langston in and began to raise him as if he were their own. In “Salvation”, focusing on a specific traumatic event, Hughes describes the memory of his aunt and a revival held at her church, touching on topics such as family pressure and peer pressure alike, fear of disappointing or being a disappointment, right from wrong, and the guilt experienced during the aftermath.
The pressure of seeing all his other peers also played a major role in his decision. His fear of being “left all alone on the mourners' bench” incited him to become saved. When he witnessed the last boy on the bench go fourth and be saved, Langston suddenly felt the pressure of the whole church come down on him. Especially that of his Aunt Reed, she sobbed to Langston "Langston, why don't you come? Why don't you come and be saved? Oh, Lamb of God! Why don't you come?" This was the last straw this pressure eventually caused Langston to get saved out of deceit. When Langston tried to go to bed that night his feelings of dishonesty had overcome him. He cried not tears of joy but tears of regret and confusion “But I was really crying because I couldn't bear to tell her that I had lied, that I had deceived everybody in the church, that I hadn't seen Jesus, and that now I didn't believe there was a Jesus anymore, since he didn't come to help me.” He cried because he felt in his heart that he lied to his Aunt Reed and the whole church.
Langston Hughes’ dedication to depicting the bona fide aspects of black life leads him to discuss struggle. One of the most omnipresent themes in black life, at the time of Hughes, is the constant struggle they face every
Langston Hughes is one the most renowned and respected authors of twentieth century America not simply one of the most respected African-American authors, though he is certainly this as well, but one of the most respected authors of the period overall. A large part of the respect and admiration that the man and his work have garnered is due to the richness an complexity of Hughes' writing, both his poetry and his prose and even his non-fictions. In almost all of his texts, Hughes manages at once to develop and explore the many intricacies and interactions of the human condition and specifically of the experience growing up and living as a black individual in a white-dominated and explicitly anti-Black society while at the same time, while at the same time rendering his human characters and their emotions in a simple, straightforward, and immensely accessible fashion. Reading the complexity behind the surface simplicity of his works is at once enjoyable and edifying.
In Langston Hughes essay “Salvation” we read of a 12-year-old boy’s experience in his aunt’s church while waiting to see Jesus. The essay seems to start in a hopeful way. He speaks of waiting to see Jesus but sitting calmly while the church tempts him to stand and be saved. Langston’s view salvation was given to him by his aunt and other old people. He waited patiently in the pew to see Jesus but the longer he sat the sadder it becomes.
“James Mercer Langston Hughes, known as Langston Hughes was born February 2, 1902 in Missouri, to Carrie Hughes and James Hughes.” Years later his parents separated. Langston’s father moved to Mexico and became very successful, as his for mother, she moved frequently to find better jobs. As a child growing up Langston spent most of his childhood living with his grandmother named Mary Langston in Lawrence, Kansas. Mary Langston was a learned women and a participant in the civil rights Movement. When Langston Hughes was 12 years old his grandmother passed away. Langston then moved in with his mother and stepfather Homer Clark. A few months later, Langston’s mother sent him to live with her mother’s friend “Auntie” and Mr. Reed. In 1915
Salvation by “Langston Hughes” In the article “Salvation” by “Langston Hughes”, the author describes his behavior as a young child in his Antie Reed’s church. He tends to explain to us how he was saved by Jesus in presence of the congregation. In my opinion, this essay illustrates a child who has large expectations to get saved by Jesus, how the social pressure affected him and how he was disappointed. Hughes has high expectations that he will be saved by God from his sins. He believed that when he will be saved, he will touch the physical appearance of Jesus, see a light and get a sensation of something happened inside him.
Langston Hughes’s life contained key influences on his work. As a child, Hughes witnessed a divorce between his parents and the subsequent death of his grandmother, his primary caretaker at the time. Hughes’s childhood was also marked by the constant transition of moving from city to