Summarize: "Salvation" by Lengston Hughes

 

Langston Hughes wrote “Salvation”, a story about how he stopped believing in Jesus when he was 12 years old. The episode was in his aunt’s church after a “revival” when the kids will get. His aunt was preparing him about how will be the experience to being saved by Jesus. He knew what to expect that day in the church. When the salvation moment started, the priest and the olders were singing and praying around them. The kids who were saved needed to walk toward the priest and sat down on the altar waiting for the other kids’ salvation. All the kids were saved. Only Hughes and other kid, Westley, were still there. Westley told to Hughes to act like they were saved, so he stood up and walked toward the priest and left Hughes alone. But Hughes was waiting to see Jesus and get all the experience that his aunt and another people talked about, but nothing happened. He started to think that it is a better option acting like he got the experience that everyone said got. He didn’t want to have problems later. So Hughes stood up, walked toward the priest and finished all the experience. He was crying all that night, because Jesus didn’t appear and never will; thinking about his lie, especially to his aunt who believed he was saved. He didn’t believe in Jesus anymore, but that
day he was saved “but not really saved” (Hughes)
 

Work Cited

Hughes, Langston. "Salvation." Literature Network Forums. 20 Feb. 2012. Web. 22 Apr. 2015.
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