Salvation is about a 13-year-old Langston Hughes and his day at church. The church was having a revival and Hughes’s aunt wanted him to attend. Many people told him about the same experience they have seen like seeing the light and feeling something new inside of you. All the children went up as the pastor called for them except Langston and Westley. After a while, Westley went up because he was tired of sitting on the bench listening to the members. Westley did not care. Hughes was the last and didn’t seem to have an experience or feeling and was waiting for something to happen. He then decided to get up and walk to the front not seeing or feeling different. Later that night his aunt and uncle heard him crying as he was afraid to tell his aunt that he was lying about getting saved and that he didn’t believe in Jesus anymore. Hughes had lost faith in religion because the experience everyone was talking about he never encountered and Jesus never came to his side that night (Hughes).

 

 

                                                                                              Work cited

Sharpe, Matthew. " The Center for Fiction." Salvation. Web. 27 Nov. 2016. <http://centerforfiction.org/forwriters/the-model-short-story/quotsalvationquot-by-langston-hughes/>.