Salvation Reflection

Diego J. Gonzalez

Prof. Cynthia Pittman

Class: English 3103-134

Date: 26 December 2017

Reflection Salvation:

Salvation is a short story about a young man named Langston who is attending his aunts church because he wants to be saved by Jesus. In this story we can see how in the process if salvation all of the other younglings pass forward to the altar as they  have seen Jesus and are now being saved. But Langston has yet to see Jesus and therefore is not passing to the altar. As this is happening he is being surrounded by other church members so they can pray for him, under the pressure of him consuming time and the loud prayers he decides to go to the altar even though he has not seen Jesus and is not ready to be saved. Upon arriving to his home he begins to cry at night in his sleep because he believe that Jesus has not saved him, as a result of this event Langston no longer believes in God and becomes an atheist.

What to me is most clear in this story is that religion can have put pressure upon a person, it also creates standards that not necessarily fit a person. We can see this in the story as Langston is forced to walk to the altar before time because he feels that he is consuming too much time, also the fact that he does not see Jesus in time makes him think that he abandoned him and therefore he becomes an atheist.