My thesis statement from my “Salvation” by Langston Hughes shares an ironic moment in Langston’s early adolescence being introduced to Christianity, misinterpreting the way he felt he had to react to worship. Though religion is practiced by many starting at a young age, a nuanced idea like religion is complex for children to understand. Though the reader is aware of this, Hughes uses dramatic irony as a way to show the naivety of the narrator whereas the reader understands the disconnect. I’ve explored a few secondary sources but I will try to look for something in the BMCC database but so far a lot of the articles I would have liked to use aren’t available so I will continue to use reputable sources from Google Scholar about Hughes’s biographical background and way or writing.
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My research essay is based on “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. My thesis statement is: “ When the big day comes, the author goes through a transformative experience in which both: his faith in Jesus and his morals are being challenged.” This ceremony was a very significant experience that marked the author’s coming of age moment. So for the secondary source information I plan on using to support my essay will most likely be Langston Hughes biographical paper with an addition of a critical analysis as well. I’m using information from a couple of different sources but mainly using BMCC Database.
For my essay, I chose “Araby” by James Joyce, the thesis statement that I wrote was “He realizes towards the end of doing this that his feelings for the girl have blinded him. Not only that, but he also had high expectations for the bazaar, and this leads the narrator to have a loss of innocence. He realizes that not everything will be how he wants it to be.” I believe that the type of secondary source information that supports my thesis might be analyzing the author’s history with the Catholic Church and how he uses it in his story to “mock” it. He uses religion as well a tremendous amount in “Araby” and one of the secondary sources I found speaks exactly about this. It is a critical essay I found on Gale, and it criticizes Joyce’s use of religion in the story. The author writes about how the girl affected the narrator’s views and beliefs of Catholicism, and I think I could use this as my secondary resource because of my theme that I’m writing about.
