"Salvation"

"Salvation" is written and told by Langston Hughes. This piece of literature takes place in church, where Langston attempts to feel the special and expected moment of connecting with Jesus for the first time. Nevertheless, he was certainly not conjecturing to lie about this once in a lifetime bond with the divinity of God.  He starts reflecting on this episode by mentioning how the days were fairly close to his thirteenth birthday. He, then prepared himself to visit his church. Here children gathered together all for the same detectable objective: to be brought to Jesus. The preacher succeeded to preach a sermon that dealt with the biblical story of the lamb of God. However, Langston felt out of the loop when he began to realize that this was the time where the kids needed to evidently prove their first and life changing acquaintance with Jesus. He was not able to comprehend the internal conflict he faced, when he did not experience the long overdue connection with Christ. That is when the feeling of confusion took over him. As he failed to adapt with his fellow lambs, Langston began to be affected by the feeling of sadness. His last calling came when a boy named Westley confessed his lack of connection with Jesus; Wesley decided to lie about this emotional and spiritual juxtaposition and tried to convince Langston to do the same. This created a short period of hopelessness for Langston, which led him to lie about experiencing the uttermost important connection with Christ. With doing so, he had lied not only to his aunt, but to the whole church. That night, Langston could not stop crying as he laid in his bed, because of his ongoing conflict with his guilty conscious. The aunt justified his action, by explaining to the family that it was because of experiencing the very vigorous bond with the Lord. Langston, informed to his readers all the drawbacks one will face if they deceive the ones they love and truly care about. Also, there is an even deeper message that informs the readers of all the disadvantages of expecting and assuming a certain outcome.