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    she was looking forward for something big to happen but never did happen. For example‚ the parents who had lied to their kids about Santa Claus who supposed to comes on Christmas Eve to dropped presents off to the good kids. Many kids are very curious of what Santa look like‚ so they will stay up all night and wait to see him. After the kids don’t see Santa the child will lose hope and stop believing. This is similar of what happen in the “Salvation” short story of Langston Hughes. Langston believes

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    narrative “SalvationLangston Hughes vividly paints a picture of himself as a little boy in a charismatic scene of a church where he takes us into his feelings of pressure‚ confusion‚ and disappointment in himself during his “saving” from sin by Jesus. He uses literary devices ‚to build up and develop detail of his experience‚ such as his use of dialogue‚ compression‚ and he writes in the mind of a young boy. Langston Hughes brings emotion and drama to his childhood story by what seems to be

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    SalvationLangston 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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    other people? 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

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    A Critical Response to Langston HughesSalvation In Langston HughesSalvationHughes illustrates himself as a little boy‚ who’s decisions at a church one morning‚ reflect the human races instinctive tendency to conform and in a sense‚ obey. That morning in church‚ Hughes is indirectly pressured to go up to the altar and "be saved" by seeing the light of god. Hughes was a young and impressionable boy who wanted "salvation" and to see Jesus so badly that when he couldn’t see Jesus and the

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    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 tone in

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    Summary of “Salvation” by Langston HughesSalvationwas written by Langston Hughes. This story is about when Hughes going on thirteen‚ he was saved from sin. However‚ his not really saved. Church had had a special meeting for children. The meeting was about to bring the young sinner who had not yet been brought to Jesus. He was waiting for a light. Because he’s aunt and many great old people told him that when his saved he will saw a light‚ and something happened to him inside‚ and Jesus

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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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    those who say that nothing was felt when they first got saved. Salvation should be known for good experiences and not experiencing nothing. Langston Hughes wrote story titled “Salvation” who claims that nothing happened to him in his salvation experience. In “SalvationHughes 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

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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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