Salvation Langston Hughes After reading the excerpt from Langston Hughes’s autobiography‚ "Salvation"‚ I pondered the many factors of religion and what makes a person believe in god or not believe in god. I believe that religion is a form of individual expression‚ and that each person should have the freedom to conform his or her identity to whatever religion feels right to that person‚ or even to conform to no religion at all. I think that if I had been in Langston’s position sitting on a mourner’s
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Salvation was written by Langston Hughes. Describe the story of Hughes‚ who lost his faith. When he was going on thirteen at that time‚ he was accompanied by his auntie reed in the church revival. He was there to see Jesus Christ at the revival because old people have told him that he would see Jesus Christ. Hughes and Westley are the only two boys that left on the mourner’s bench. Westley‚ disappointed and lied was saved. Westley left Hughes alone on the bench. Hughes suffered a range of emotions
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hide one’s true self‚ as seen in Langston Hughes’ “Salvation.” Based on a true experience‚ Hughes exposes how he lost faith in religion as he witnessed his church’s “big revival.” The motif in this piece portrays how children conform to the societal whims rather than expressing their personal beliefs. During the revival‚ the children of the congregation‚ such as Hughes‚ were pressured into going to the church’s stage to become saved. Throughout the piece‚ Hughes constantly claims he is “waiting for
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“Salvation” Langston Hughes Finds God in His Essay “Salvation” In Langston Hughes’ essay “Salvation‚” the author recounts how his failure to “see” Jesus and be outwardly saved results in a deeper‚ more stirring revelation: that only he---and not Jesus---can save his soul. Although Hughes devotes much of his essay to parodying the salvation experiences and apparent hypocrisy of other church members‚ and he tells us that the church building is stuffy‚ uncomfortable‚ hot and boring
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The short story Salvation‚ written by Langston Hughes‚ is based on his personal experience at church as a young child. Langston Hughes aunt takes him to a meeting for the children at her church. At the meeting all the kids were to sit on the mourners bench and wait for Jesus to save them. Towards the end of the ceremony‚ all the children had been saved by Jesus except Langston and another boy. Eventually‚ he decides to get up and said that he had been “saved” by Jesus‚ although he never was. His
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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
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That was a decision made by Langston Hughes when he was a young child. In an essay called “Salvation”‚ by Langston Hughes‚ the author discusses a time when he was a young child being peer pressure to give an answer by the other people in the church. Langston was supposed to sit up if he saw Jesus‚ but in his mind he took it in a serious approach. In other words‚ he took it literally and waited for Jesus to appear right in front of him. This then lead Langston into being mendacious saying
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irony used in Langston Hughes’ first person narrative “Salvation” is verbal and situational irony. Verbal irony is the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says. Situational irony occurs when the exact opposite of what is meant to happen‚ happens. Theses two types irony are introduced by Hughes’ Auntie Reed who begins to take Hughes to church for several weeks‚ and then talks about taking Hughes to the children revival. This sets up the beginning of Hughes traumatic experience
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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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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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