Salvation

I loved the flow of the story in this piece. In the first few paragraphs, the reader is led to believe that we are witnessing the experience of the religious conversion of the author. As the essay moves on, we come to realize that Langston Hughes never did see Jesus that day, as he believed he would. I can really relate to the disappoint and dillusionment and guilt felt by Hughes in this piece, as he comes to realize that the Jesus described by his peers might not exist, and that to be accepted by his family, he would have to lie. I'm left feeling sad for Hughes, who, because of the ridiculous expectations he received from his church, may have never got a chance to experience something that would have been important to him.