The short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes is centered around the ideas of transformation and faith.
At the beginning of the story, the young and naive narrator has been taught and adheres to the image of faith. In place of faith, he mentally pictures Jesus as a human figure and expects him to be a real, tangible person. It’s not his fault he took this idea so literally. His entire environment supported this kind of idea. Upon learning that Jesus wouldn’t actually appear in front of him, he is so upset he denounces his faith all together. If anything, with his worldview, this seemed inevitable. The tone of the story changes to be more melancholic and helpless as his whole life was based on faith before he understood what that meant.
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