The narrator of “Salvation” is different from the way he was at the beginning of the story compared to now because he now realizes that he lied and does not know what to believe. He also realizes that the other young teenagers who went up may have been lying saying that they were saved by Jesus/ see Jesus. I guess you can say peer pressure got to him because he was the only person who did not see Jesus. The narrator also believes at the end of the story that there is no Jesus anymore since he did not come to help him. The narrator changed simply because he says in the beginning that he “was saved by sins but not really”. He thought he was actually going to see Jesus but ended up not seeing him and lying about it. That makes him think if everyone is lying about if there is a Jesus or not.
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Hello Justine! You were so right to mention the first two sentences of the short story. It really is thought provoking how Langston had to lie, therefore sin, in order to be saved by his sins. It begs the question whether following his peers and acting as expected by the church really grants him salvation or rather dooms him. Although, I think, his disappointment and shame answers that question.