Langston Hughes Really Saved Summary

Langston Hughes exposes the dishonesty of the church and how blindly trusting in God can have a negative impact on ourselves. Hughes’ decision to stand up and be “saved” clearly shows peer pressure, because when all of the kids at the revival were “saved” he became the center of attention which became a reason for Hughes to lie. Unfortunately, deceiving someone is a bad thing, but lying about a lie is not necessarily a negative thing. At the beginning of the article when Hughes said “I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved.”, he means that he was saved from being like someone who put blind faith without understanding the depth of something. What he meant by “but not really saved” is that everyone told him he