A Crisis of Faith in Salvation, by Langston Hughes and...

In ï ¿ ½Salvationï ¿ ½ by Langston Hughes and ï ¿ ½Young Goodman Brownï ¿ ½ by Nathaniel Hawthorne there is a crisis of faith was present in both stories. Although both of the stories are very similar, they also are very different, too. In both stories, the main character experiences a loss of innocence through a faith crisis. The outcome of the loss of innocence in ï ¿ ½Young Goodman Brownï ¿ ½ was both positive and negative and in ï ¿ ½Salvationï ¿ ½ entirely negative. The faith crisis affected the way Goodman Brown and Langston reacted to their experience. The crisis of faith in ï ¿ ½Young Goodman Brownï ¿ ½ and ï ¿ ½Salvationï ¿ ½ was due to the outcome and the factors that influence the loss of innocence. In ï ¿ ½Young Goodman Brownï ¿ ½ the loss of innocence was due to the†¦show more content†¦Goodman Brown realizes ï ¿ ½There is no good on earth; and sin is but name. Come, devil; for to thee is the world givenï ¿ ½ (Hawthorne 167). In contrary to Young Goodman Brown, the lost of innocence in ï ¿ ½Salvationï ¿ ½ was due to the loss of faith and social pressures. Langston was pressured into being saved by his aunt because she felt it was the right thing for young Langston to do, and all the other young children were being saved. Langston aunt told him, ï ¿ ½when 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!ï ¿ ½ (Hughes 330). He believes his aunt and most of all he wanted to see the light All the young people, but Langston and Westley, in the church went to the alter to be saved. After unsuccessful waiting and hoping to see Jesus, Westley pretended to see the light, went to the alter, got save, leaving poor Langston alone. Langston decided after the congregation sung and prayed for him over and over, that he would pretend to have seen the light and go get saved. With good intention, ï ¿ ½ I [Langston] decided that maybe to save further tr ouble, Iï ¿ ½d lie, too, and say that Jesus had come, and get up and be savedï ¿ ½ (Hughes 331). He thought that no one would ever know. He pretended to see the light and was saved. Later, that night he began to cry while lying in his bed. His aunt thought it was because he had seen Jesus. In