Carolyn P. Walker writes a game changing story in her short story “On the Road”. It involves initially two characters: Reverend Mr. Dorset, a white pastor and Sargeant, a big black man. The story takes place in the night during a snowstorm. He has his run ins initially with the pastor then it runs over into the town and then the church. Later he meets up with Christ and later the police to end the story off with him in jail. Walker takes her readers on a trip through key elements of what was happening at the time and relating them to her writing. Walker shows us the disconnects of this particular story are race and religion. Two natural causes that plagues the world on a day to day basis. Initially, Sargeant is looking for refuge in the home
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Christ makes a trip to Kansas while Sargeant finds refuge under a bridge. After they separate Sargeant sees a train and tries to hop on. He is met with cops on the train and ultimately they lock him up in jail. This can be viewed as the moment we stop following Christ the same things we were running from can catch up with us. While together the two never ran into any problems so that can be seen as the veil that Christ has over us. After he is locked up he wonders where Christ is now. People in jail use their locked up sentences from time to time to find Christ. Hughes shows us the process of a black man at the bottom of the chain. Ultimately he is already surrounded by whiteness from the snowstorm to the people. Not once did he notice he was surrounded by the snow but that did not take away from the idea that he was surrounded by nothing but white. As he sits in his cell Hughes writes, “I wonder where Christ's gone? I wonder... if he's gone to Kansas City?”. Sargeant looks back on his time with Christ and wonders where He is now. He then uses that same mindset to end the story off with, "I'm going to break down this door," yelled Sargeant as he stood up in his cell. His tenacity to not quit despite the odds is an everyday life experience for this particular black
Christ makes a trip to Kansas while Sargeant finds refuge under a bridge. After they separate Sargeant sees a train and tries to hop on. He is met with cops on the train and ultimately they lock him up in jail. This can be viewed as the moment we stop following Christ the same things we were running from can catch up with us. While together the two never ran into any problems so that can be seen as the veil that Christ has over us. After he is locked up he wonders where Christ is now. People in jail use their locked up sentences from time to time to find Christ. Hughes shows us the process of a black man at the bottom of the chain. Ultimately he is already surrounded by whiteness from the snowstorm to the people. Not once did he notice he was surrounded by the snow but that did not take away from the idea that he was surrounded by nothing but white. As he sits in his cell Hughes writes, “I wonder where Christ's gone? I wonder... if he's gone to Kansas City?”. Sargeant looks back on his time with Christ and wonders where He is now. He then uses that same mindset to end the story off with, "I'm going to break down this door," yelled Sargeant as he stood up in his cell. His tenacity to not quit despite the odds is an everyday life experience for this particular black