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Jackie Chan
Pr. Mike
17 April 2018
Huges suffer And salvation.
“Salvation”, which was written by Langston Huges, is short story about Huges’s
twelve years old. Huges went to Auntie Reed’s church when he was twelve, and try to
be brought to Jesus. Huges aunt told him when he was saved he saw a light, and
something happened to his inside. Huges waited until he was saved. However, it never
happen. Huges was ashame because everyone waited Huges, so he decided to make lie.
After Huges lied to everyone, he was suffer, because he could not tells her truth.
Jesus was not save Huges. Huges had not seen a light, and nothing had happen to his
inside. Huges has not believed Jesus since Jesus did not safe him. Most sinners had seen
a light, and been brought to Jesus. It not happened to Huges.
In “Salvation, Huges wrote about revival and his suffer. After revival, Huges was
crying and agony about what he had done. Huges had lied to everyone he had not seen
light and made him suffer. “Minister had believe Huges had seen light”, and minister
had not known Huges was suffer about to be saved.
Work References
Huges Salvation 1971
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Faith and Salvation
Langston Hughes recalls in his essay Salvation the experience of being “saved” from sin at a
church ceremony. A twelve-year-old Langston took the words of his aunt “you could see and hear and
feel…Jesus” (2) as the literal truth. When Jesus did not physically appear in front of Hughes, it caused him
great distress, and under pressure from everyone else in the church he lied to pretend he had seen Jesus.
Although this short narrative only focuses on Hughes’ experience, it delves into the deeper question of faith.
The small setting of the community church is a metaphor for the pressure exerted by peers, institutions, and
the society at large to openly declare one’s religion. As had happened with Hughes, the pressure to conform
leads to not only to dishonesty but also the loss of identity.
Hughes’ vivid description of the church sounds and ceremonies invites the reader to easily step
into his shoes and feel the close community connection with everyone in the church. However, this same
community bond is the very force that makes their expectations so powerful. In the space of two sentences,
the environment completely changes from the “wonderfully rhythmical sermon” (3) to a ceaseless “Won’t
you come? Won’t you come to Jesus?” (3) And if the suffocating repetitiveness of the questions is not
enough, many old church goers physically surround the children and pray around them. At this point, the
pressure had gotten to most young people and they all walked to the altar, eventually Hughes is forced to lie,
so he does not have to stand apart from his community.
The old church goers’ actions have strong parallels in the world outside of the story. Adults are
also forced to conform to the expectation of their communities and declare themselves into neat categories
of religious denominations. It is not enough to be a Christian, but to fit into their environment; a person has
to be the right kind of Christian. Within the category of Protestant Churches alone, there are Calvinists,
Pentecostals, Baptists, Methodist, and many more. Whether one truly believes in the theological differences
between these groups is not nearly as important as putting on the label and identifying with the group.
Instead of “old church goers”, people are surrounded by the expectation of their friends and families to walk
to the altar of their particular group while burying their own beliefs. Unlike Hughes, they are conditioned to
pretend for so long, most never reflect enough to cry over their dishonesty.
When Hughes thought over what he had done, he cried and cried in his bed. In order to be “saved”
he had lied to everyone. In this lie he declared his religion and became a member of the group. This
transformation from behaving as an individual to acting based on what others expected of him marked the
end of Hughes’ innocence. And on that day Hughes lost his faith and became a Christian.