My essay is about the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. The main idea in my essay claims that this story is about expectations and disappointments, as well as that the resulting epiphany in the story makes him doubt what he has believed in all his life. I would like to use it for my research essay on Langston Hughes’s Biography. Langston Hughes was one of the most promising black writers, and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance (The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s). they put art before religion and that connects to the part in my essay where young Langston lost his faith in Jesus at a such young age (He was around his 20s when was part of the Harlem Renaissance, and his experience in the story was when he was 12). I would also like to use critical analysis about “Salvation”, or if I will be able to find articles about the connection of the African Americans to church during the same times (1900).
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“Salvation” shows the readers Langston Hughes experience of being save, in his eyes being save was supposed to be a great experience for him because he was expecting Christ in his life. but he got the opposite which left him sad.
Tamar, beware of focusing too much on the Harlem Renaissance as a movement. Your research has to be relevant to the story. The Harlem Renaissance is a cultural revival, and this story is a very personal account of a moment in an adolescent boy’s life. How is the Harlem Renaissance relevant to “Salvation?” What is your thesis statement?