Langston Hughes Salvation Analysis

     People always listen to music, watch movies or plays, and even read poetry without once even thinking what is could be that helps and artist eventually create a masterpiece. Often times, it is assumed that artists just have a “gift”, and people just do not consider the circumstances and situations that gradually mold a dormant idea into a polished reality. This seems to be the case with nearly every famous actor, writer, painter, or musician; including the ever-famous Langston Hughes.

“Salvation” is a wonderful narrative by Langston Hughes explaining his first time attending church. The story is portrayed in both a book and film version. Both versions do their jobs by explaining how Langston felt when he falsely claimed he was saved by Christ. Each version has different strengths and weaknesses, but the book is dull compared to the film. The film gives a better insight into Langston’s life;therefore, the film version is superior to the book.

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 most people's lives, there comes a point in time where their perception changes abruptly; a single moment in their life when they come to a sudden realization. In Langston Hughes' 'Salvation', contrary to all expectations, a young Hughes is not saved by Jesus, but is saved from his own innocence.

In most people's lives, there comes a point in time where their perception changes abruptly; a single moment in their life when they come to a sudden realization. In Langston Hughes' "Salvation", contrary to all expectations, a young Hughes is not saved by Jesus, but is saved from his own innocence.

After reading Langston Hughes “Salvation” I believe Mr. Hughes purpose of writing this essay was to inform us about how social conformity can affect us in our decision making. Mr. Hughes describes about how his aunt has been talking about this day for days and how it will change his life. And how he will be one with god, as if he wasn’t already, but Mr. Hughes being the impressable child that he is, wanted the feeling that his aunt and fellow church goers were experiencing. I feel like the reason why this event is so special to Mr. Langston Hughes is because it was the day that he lost a piece of his self. The reasoning behind my thought is Mr. Hughes gets to the alter and waits silently for god to appear to him, but when everyone around him appear to experience the magic of god, Young Hughes starts to doubt his self and the faith of god. With all the noise and commotion going on from the preacher and fellow church goers, singing and preaching, to the older church members crying around young Hughes. The way Hughes gave us vivid descriptions of the church it almost feels like Mr. Hughes was in a twilight zone.

Langston Hughes’s personal narrative “Salvation” is a recollection of Hughes’s experience with salvation at a religious revival at his aunt’s church. He recounts his experience in order to describe how it led to his enormous guilt over deceiving his aunt and the congregation and how it stemmed his disbelief in religion. His ironic tone and vivid imagery plays a key role in the development of the conflict and the complications that he faces. In order to dramatize suspenseful moments and magnify key points, he uses an array of rhetorical devices.

Langston Hughes in several poems denounced religion, inferring that religion did not exist any longer. In reading these poems, the reader canes that Hughes was expressing his feelings of betrayal and abandonment, against his race, by religion and the church. Hughes had a talent for writing poems that would start a discussion. From these discussions, Hugh es could only hope for realization from the public, of how religion and the church treated the Black race.

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

In the short story Salvation by Langston Hughes, Hughes describers a time when his aunt and the people of the church predicted Langston would be saved, not in God’s timing but in their own timing. As a result, Langston questioned if God was real. Believe it or not, most of us have had an experience where our loved ones or someone we’ve look up to holds us accountable to maintain a certain image or expectation. To avoid hurting the one’s we love, we do whatever it takes to live up to this expectation even if it hurts us, as in Langston’s case.

Last night, Hannah was crying after finding out that her parents had lied to her about unicorns existing. Hannah’s parents had always told her since she was 5 that one day, she will get to see a unicorn. Hannah was 8 and still and she still hasn’t seen a unicorn and was wondering when will she ever get to see one. Hannah asked her parents about her being able to see a unicorn and her parents, with their guilty faces turning red and stressed, had to respond to Hannah face to face with difficulty speaking that unicorns don’t exist.

Langston Hughes was one of the first black men to express the spirit of blues and jazz

Salvation is one of the numerous poems written by Langton Hughes. In the poem, the narrator was reminiscing about an experience he had when he was thirteen years old. The narrator went to a revival that was hosted at his Aunt Reed church. His aunt used a metaphor that receiving Jesus is like seeing the light. He also believed that he will be able to hear and feel Jesus inside his soul.

'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.

Salvation is defined as the deliverance from sin and its consequences. In a Christianity sense, salvation is when a person accepts the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior, and they believe the fact that he died for the sins of Christians. The term of salvation is often referred to as being “saved”. Salvation is when one delivers not only their body in a physical to the church and God, but it is also a committee to Jesus mentally and spiritually. Getting saved can be a very pressuring and life changing decision. That is sometimes forced upon young adolescents. Ultimately it can cause one to question their spiritually sometimes even damaging their belief in Jesus. In Langston Hughes’