A look back at “Salvation” by Langston Hughes Our story begins like many other stories with a setting‚ main character‚ and a catchy introduction. Like many other stories it attracts the reader’s attention with something vague‚ making the person reading the story want to continue on further into the piece. This reading is like many other’s which portray real life situations‚ and show a different culture coming from a first person point of view. In the story‚ the main character‚ Langston‚ is a
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Langston Hughes “Salvation”. “Salvation” is taking from the first of these ‚ The Big Sea ( 1940 )‚ and written by Langston Hughes who was a brilliant author‚ poet who wrote fiction‚ history‚ autobiography‚ and he worked at various times as a journalist. You can clearly see in “Salvation” was taking time at South – country side. From the Title “Salvation” you can have a guess and you will be right if you were thinking about church‚ God and so on. - But not really saved? - To bring the young
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Turley Writing 150 Section 5 25 September 2012 The Pressures of Finding Salvation Langston Hughes’ story “Salvation” is one that raises many questions about his life and childhood experiences. Hughes patterns this story to portray the pressures that caused his faith to be lost. Hughes sat on the mourners’ bench waiting for God to save him but‚ due to these pressures‚ he chose to stand and pretend that he found his salvation. Pressure is the influences of outside sources that convince you to conform
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Jack F. Baines‚ Jr. - #1468350 HOMI501_D06 LUO My Salvation Experience As of September of 2011‚ I will have been a born-again Christian for 41 years. My journey to faith in Christ began with the conversion of my father‚ Jack Baines‚ Sr. in 1967. Dr. Melvin Worthington was the pastor of the First Free Will Baptist of Amory‚ Ms and he invited my father to attend a Revival service in Tupelo‚ MS where his brother was the guest evangelist. The first night‚ my dad went to the altar
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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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not limit themselves to age‚ however‚ when it takes place in a child it can alter their way of thinking and perspectives about the world in which they live. It is this very type of mind altering experience that a young boy‚ Langston in the story “Salvation” and a young girl‚ Sylvia in the story “The Lesson” have in common. In both stories‚ the children are a fairly young age and placed in situations that cause them to lose a certain amount of their childhood innocence and
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Portfolio Entry #3 Alayna Baudry “Salvation” Hughes‚ Langston. "Salvation." [The Big Sea‚ 1940.] The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues across the Disciplines. Ed. Gilbert H. Muller. 11th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill‚ 2011. 642-643. Print. Question #18: What is the author’s purpose? Does s/he achieve this purpose? What three or four elements most significantly contribute to the success or failure of the passage? Hughes’ purpose in writing salvation was to display that the pressure of adults
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Salvation by Langston Hughes In Langston Hughes’ story "Salvation‚" the author describes his first encounter within the church in regards to him being saved from sin. At the young age of thirteen‚ Hughes is waiting to see Jesus appear before him -as a sign of a religious epiphany- but nothing seems to happen. In which case‚ he truly experiences religion for the first time in his life. Hughes adopts a sarcastic‚ mocking‚ and cynical tone because he suggests the church to be an ironic
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is going to turn out. When things do not turn out the way‚ we want them to turn out; the feeling of disappointment takes over. That is a coincidence when I read "Salvation" written by Langston Hughes because I run into my feeling five years ago‚ not in the same situation with him‚ but not so many differences to be his partner. "Salvation" is a short story‚ but inside it is a long anxiety and unforgettable experience for the boy. Only he knows what he is doing‚ and he is the one. The feeling that
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SALVATION by Langston Hughes "I hadn’t seen Jesus and that now I didn’t believe there was a Jesus any more‚ since he didn’t come to help me". That final paragraph in Salvation does show the truth that- nobody in the church knows the boy’s secret because he did not see God. What people had told him before and what he saw are opposites. Disappointment is certainly. It is the feeling we all get when something or someone fails to live up to our expectations. Everybody‚ at least one time in their lives
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