“Salvation,” by Langston Hughes is a short anecdote about the time he was “saved from sin”. In this short story, Hughes is not criticizing Christianity; instead, he is demonstrating how an adult may impact a child’s life if they do not fully explain certain beliefs. Since Hughes is a child (about to be thirteen) he believes and accepts everything his Aunt says. When Hughes does not receive the Holy Ghost he begins to question if there really is a Jesus Christ. As a child, Hughes took every detail his Auntie Reed said literal. For example, Auntie Reed said, “when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside! And Jesus came into your life! And God was with you from then on!” Hughes literally thought that he was going to
