“Salvation” by Langston Hughes was a very interesting read because it brings a lot of emotions and perspective into play. Throughout the story, it talks about how Hughes developed a fear over something he believed would be very positive for him. At the end of the story, he states “I didn’t believe there was a Jesus anymore, since he didn’t come to help me”. His attitude towards being “saved” completely changed everything for him at the end of the story. At the same time, Hughes was only thirteen years old at the time, and he couldn’t have possibly known what it fully meant to be “saved”. This story also shows, in my opinion, peer pressure. One of the kids decided to just lie and go up and be “saved” and when Hughes decided to do the same, which ended with him feeling guilty and sad about it. And this brings me back to the sentence Hughes wrote at the end of the story because it shows how much his attitude and feelings towards Jesus changed in the end.
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