In the beginning of the story, Langston starts off his church experience with a sense of innocence, and nervousness, or excitement. He sees everyone celebrating seeing Jesus, and him coming to them. He’s almost anticipating it happening for a moment. Until his friend is sick of just sitting there being watched as people waited for them to join, and decided to lie. I think in that moment, Langston lost all that innocence. Because Jesus wasn’t coming to him, and he’s sitting there alone, hoping that he will come, but his friend just started pretending and faced no consequences of that. That innocence, and hope and belief that there was a God left him.
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I agree that he was naive and inquisitive at first. But I don’t believe he recognized that the tears and humiliation in his room was his punishment. The reality of parents placing such high expectations on their children occurs far more frequently than most people realize. Because of how his parents built everything up and explained it to him, he was going to be disappointed in his beliefs. His deception and lack of punishment cemented his opinion that he was not rescued and that he did not believe in Jesus.