Throughout the course of history, many people have argued about how people treat minority groups. Discrimination against minority groups and hypocrisy in religion is the focus of the short story “On the Road” by Langston Hughes. Hughes based the story on experiences that he had gone through at the height of the Great Depression. The story, “On the Road” written by Langston Hughes, successfully illustrates discrimination and hypocrisy in the mid-30's over minority groups and this is still a prevalent problem throughout the world that we must face.
Through the reading, Hughes introduces us to the world that exists behind minority groups. In the opening lines of the story, Hughes describes how a homeless person feels. “Sargeant didn’t see the snow, not even under the bright lights of the main street, …show more content…
They have kept me nailed on a cross for nearly two thousand years” (1079). Hughes was trying to prove how Christian people really are. Many of them read the Bible, praise Christ but in the church, they behave in one way but when they leave they behave in another. The fiction of the story begins when Sargeant has the conversation with Christ. When Sargeant wakes up and sees that he is actually in a prison he assimilates that his conversation was only a dream or a hallucination a kind of protection towards him to comfort himself. “Suddenly Sargeant realized that he really was in jail. He wasn’t on no train. The blood of the night before had dried on his face, his head hurt terribly, and a cop outside in the corridor was hitting him across the knuckles for holding onto the door, yelling and shaking the cell door” (1081). However, minority groups are people just as us, but we are the ones who create the difference. Many people discriminate others just because of the color of their skin, language, race, ethnicity, etc. Its genuine emotions allow us to connect with the
Through the reading, Hughes introduces us to the world that exists behind minority groups. In the opening lines of the story, Hughes describes how a homeless person feels. “Sargeant didn’t see the snow, not even under the bright lights of the main street, …show more content…
They have kept me nailed on a cross for nearly two thousand years” (1079). Hughes was trying to prove how Christian people really are. Many of them read the Bible, praise Christ but in the church, they behave in one way but when they leave they behave in another. The fiction of the story begins when Sargeant has the conversation with Christ. When Sargeant wakes up and sees that he is actually in a prison he assimilates that his conversation was only a dream or a hallucination a kind of protection towards him to comfort himself. “Suddenly Sargeant realized that he really was in jail. He wasn’t on no train. The blood of the night before had dried on his face, his head hurt terribly, and a cop outside in the corridor was hitting him across the knuckles for holding onto the door, yelling and shaking the cell door” (1081). However, minority groups are people just as us, but we are the ones who create the difference. Many people discriminate others just because of the color of their skin, language, race, ethnicity, etc. Its genuine emotions allow us to connect with the