“50-50” by Langston Hughes In the poem “50-50” by Langston Hughes‚ the theme is about a lonely woman seeking love. She might be a young woman who left her family in the South and moved North during the Great Migration for better opportunities‚ and that might be the reason why she feels she is all alone in this world. Or‚ she might be a widow or someone who has lost a partner‚ or boyfriend. She feels she is all alone because she has no man in her life. The monologue has a dual persona
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Reaction Paper Non Fiction “Salvation” By Langston Hughes "My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light‚ and something happened to you inside! And Jesus came into your life! And God was with you from then on! She said you could see and hear and feel Jesus in your soul." ( Barnet‚ Burto & Cain‚ 2011) Langston Hughes ’ short story uses allegory to redefine the word "see"‚ when his aunt tells him hat he will see Jesus‚ Langston Hughes believes he will actual see the the bodily figure
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discovered a significant truth about faith and religion. At the age of twelve‚ young Hughes attended his auntie Reed’s church for a huge revival. He heard songs of praise and amen’s‚ saw many tears‚ and watched as many sinners were brought to christ‚ making a heavily religious environment. All the children who had not yet been brought to Jesus sat in the front row so the rest of the church could pray for them. Hughes and another little boy‚ Westley were left as all the other children jumped and went
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Langston Hughes the author that wrote the story called Salvation which is about a boy who wants to see Jesus. As explained in the story Hughes said he is saved from a sin which means he has confessed he is a sinner in need of a true savior. The thirteen-year-old boy demonstrates on how he just could never see the light of Jesus and for some reason felt embarrassed about it. Hughes is a muddled child who is pressured by the community to conform to its religious standards. “…I couldn’t bear to tell
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experiences and not experiencing nothing. Langston Hughes wrote story titled “Salvation” who claims that nothing happened to him in his salvation experience. In “Salvation” Hughes demonstrates through characters’ perspectives how salvation in accepting Jesus as Lord is manipulated to be a religious act and not a genuine salvation. As the author‚ Hughes’ perspective of salvation contributes to the theme by believing in experiencing Jesus in his salvation. Hughes believed that when he sees Jesus he would
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In the poem‚ “Theme for English B”‚ the speaker self-identifies as a black person specifically a black male. When the speaker states the line‚ “the only colored student in my class‚” it is portraying a sense of self-identity. Reading the first half of the poem‚ it is noticeable that the speaker highlights the ways in which his ethnicity separates him‚ physically and figuratively‚ from his white classmates and professor. Also‚ the speaker gives us a symbol of segregation because he talks about how
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In the story " Early Autumn" Langston Hughes presents the thought about the loss of people who loved and people changing. Hughes tells the idea of the possibility that rushed development through life keeps individuals from shaping or keeping up significant connections. Hughes makes the story interesting by describing the scene and the plot of the two characters. The setting of the story brings back two characters together who once were in love‚ but they had a little amount of time to communicate
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of No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston‚ I just wanna be Average by Mike Rose and Salvation by Langston Hughes. In these essays they all found an Identity by going their own routes they think is best for them and while following that route they create their own Identity. In the essay No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston‚ she grew up in a very strict Chinese household who
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familiar is the Christian religion. In Langston Hughes “Salvation” exposes the flaws within the Christian religion‚ the fact that individuals do not understand what they are being taught and just doing what is expected of them as well as the hypocritical ways that happen in the Christian organization. Growing up‚ it is normal for children to just go with the flow of their environment and to do what is asked of them by their elders. In “salvation” Langston Hughes reveals the feeling
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Salvation In Langston Hughes’ autobiography‚ “Salvation‚” he shares his childhood experience of his Auntie Reed’s Christian church. Going into the revival‚ Hughes’ expectantly waited for Jesus to come save him; “to see Jesus.” What was supposed to be a religiously enlightening moment of his life transpired to be a disheartening realization that Jesus’s existence could have very well resulted from mass hysteria. He revolves his experience around the confusion resulted from miscommunication between
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