Similarities Between Mark Twain And Langston Hughes

Mark Twain and Langston Hughes are both respected authors. A piece from Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, appropriately named “Huck and Jim,” describes the battle Huck is having with himself if he should return his friend, Jim, runaway slave. Hughes story, “Salvation,” is the story of his childhood experience in which Jesus did come to him, resulting in his own disbelief. In both of these individual stories, the characters did not fully understand the truth about their dilemmas. They were simply believing what was common around them. This can certainly happen when reading literature. One can become swept up in the story and unintentionally adopt the values before them as their own, whether true or false. Christians should be especially