The narrator on “Salvation” by Langston Hughes, the young narrator is different from the way he was at the beginning of the story, by showing the way he believed everything he was told when he was young because as we read the story we can see clearly he is told that those young lamb who’s sinners are able to see Jesus and believe he would go inside you and and forgive them. But after the event he pass through were he didn’t see or felt nothing he felted he was lied and he couldn’t believed it, cryed in the night and he learn that there was no God and that he was lied. He also felt bad on telling his aunt that he had lied on the event because he got up and went to the altar as if he saw and felt god presence which was a lie, he changes from believing everything he was told to not believing and not knowing what to believe or think.
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I agree, his beliefs seemed to have changed rather quickly. I thought he would have been upset with his aunt but he didn’t blame her at all when he didn’t experience the things she told him that he would. As a small child, seeing such a lively ceremony, where everyone in the church is celebrating and singing and chanting, it makes sense that he would expect some kind of grand entrance rather than just a feeling. I think it’s a common experience for that ‘coming of age’ phase, where they are no longer credulous and learning that the spiritual world is more symbolic than magical is a harsh awakening for him. I think we are basically experience his transition into the start of his young adulthood.
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I completely agree with you Langston was a young child that had believed in Jesus because all of the elders including his aunt had told him about it. The credibility of the elders that told him about this gave him some hope that it was real. During the whole ordeal, he had less and less hope and by the end, he had already given up and had not seen Jesus, and had stopped believing.