The way that I see how the narrator has changed from the beginning of the story to the end is on how much more mature he has become. The narrator Langston Hughes starts off in the reading by not caring so much about the people around him and only really caring about himself and making sure what he did was good for him, but through out the reading you start to realize he is understanding more and more that what he is doing and the lies he is saying is not good for him and that it is not going to be good when his family finds out the truth. A quote that really stood out to me from the reading stated that “But I was really crying because I couldn’t bear to tell her that I had lied, that I had deceived everybody in the church, that I hadn’t seen Jesus, and that now I didn’t believe there was a Jesus anymore, since he didn’t come to help me.” this quote to me showed that he was being a little more understanding of what he was doing and that he was slowly ready to own up to what he did and just come out with the truth.
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Great points!
However, I feel like from moment one he was already very concerned about what other people were thinking, and that the whole environment contributed to his anxiety about being saved, despite the personal excitement for the experience that was about to come. The quote you mentioned also touched me a lot, as if he not only felt that he disappointed everyone around him, and his faith but also the profound loneliness he must have felt and lack of belonging for not being able to “see” Jesus as everyone told him, therefore not being able to find his salvation. Very sad!
Thank you for your input.