Compare And Contrast Cartathia And Salvation

“I was saved from sin when I was on thirteen. But not really saved. (Salvation, By: Langston Hughes). “They should have put the men in the lifeboats. Men can marry again, have new families. What’s the use of all those widows and orphans?” (Carpathia By: Jess Lee Kercheval). Both of these quotes retrain from two short stories by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Langston Hughes. Jesse Lee Kercheval is a professor of writing at University of Wisconsin. She writes dozen of books. ”Carpathia” is a short story she wrote for a textbook called “building Fiction. Langston Hughes was an American poet, participated in the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz poetry. He also wrote a dozen books. ‘Salvation” is a narrative story he wrote to express his experience at a revival. “Salvation” and “Carpathia” will be explained in the following paragraphs of a 12 twelve years belief’s and a grown man perceptive of the importance of woman and young child.

The story “Salvation” found his genesis from Langston Hughes ' childhood about the struggle to reconcile adult concepts with a childish mind. The metaphor applied in this narrative short story was “to bring the young lamb to the fold”. Other of symbolism was used in this short story as well like simile. The setting of this narrative story was a church, a revival, the

Salvation is commonly used as another word for redemption, and saved from your sin in many religions. The theme of this story is that the author, Langston Hughes, lost his faith in Christianity. He chose narration to explain the theme of the story because it will make more sense to be in his shoes to tell an experience than to speak on someone else’s behalf. This story was also written to show the pressure adult put on children that is not aware of exactly what’s going on in a church or a way to show that not everyone beliefs are the