Christian Alvear Discussion 10

For my research essay, I picked “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. The reason I chose this story is that the young boy lost his faith in Christ due to misunderstanding what his Aunt said about being saved. The narrator shows how the pressure of his aunt and the crowd add to his distress. This reflects my thesis of the character undergoing many shifting emotions and is significantly changed by the end of the story. My secondary source will be Langston Hughes’s biography where he talks about the hardships of who he was, especially in the early 1900s, and also his famous “Harlem Renaissance” explaining the path that led to Hughes’s determination to understand religion, although often from a critical perspective, and incorporates his experiences going back as far as his childhood. His experience relates to my thesis on how Langston lost his faith in Christ when he was young because of his disappointing experience of not being saved.