Faith is a wonderful ideal. It can help people through the darkest of times, and give them something to believe in. Faith can also cause everything to come crashing down when what is believed in cannot realistically or logically happen. In “Salvation” by Langston Hughes, and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, both characters’ lives are changed when their individual religious experiences fail to meet their expectations. Both Hughes and Brown came from small isolated communities that heavily emphasized religion. It was ingrained in their society. Even though Goodman Brown and Langston Hughes both sought community acceptance, their religious experiences shattered their held preconceptions and caused them both to partially or wholly give up on their faith.
The geographic and social isolation experienced by the two men put community acceptance into the highest regard. …show more content…
The Puritans were a group of people who chose to live by the harsh rules set by the Book of Leviticus. It governed every aspect of their lives, religiously, socially, even politically. They lived in small communities in England, and then in the New World. In America, they were separated from other colonies, and thus lived, for the most part, without interaction from the outside world. The Puritans were such a religious group, that in order to gain voting rights in the Church, they had to go through a successful conversion event, even though such an event was not clearly defined. In order to be anyone of any standing in the community and be accepted, Goodman Brown would have to show that his faith was tested and he came through successfully. Langston Hughes was an African American child growing up in segregation without his parents. During segregation, the central
The geographic and social isolation experienced by the two men put community acceptance into the highest regard. …show more content…
The Puritans were a group of people who chose to live by the harsh rules set by the Book of Leviticus. It governed every aspect of their lives, religiously, socially, even politically. They lived in small communities in England, and then in the New World. In America, they were separated from other colonies, and thus lived, for the most part, without interaction from the outside world. The Puritans were such a religious group, that in order to gain voting rights in the Church, they had to go through a successful conversion event, even though such an event was not clearly defined. In order to be anyone of any standing in the community and be accepted, Goodman Brown would have to show that his faith was tested and he came through successfully. Langston Hughes was an African American child growing up in segregation without his parents. During segregation, the central