SALVATION

  One of the reasons I don’t like to go to church is because people expect from you. And when people expect, you feel pressured. Even though the story is well written and has a good structure, I didn’t like the story line,  because I don’t think it was right the pressure the pastor and the other adults put on Langston, to be saved,  That’s one of the reasons I don’t like the church. I used to go to church when I was younger, my parents made me go, but when I got older like in my teens they gave me the choice to go to a church of my choice, so I went to my friends church, its was small, and I thought it was nice at first, I met the pastor he was nice  and everything, and people were friendly. One day, something like what happened to Langston happened to me, but I wanted to go to the front, just to see what happened, and besides people were starting to look at me weird because I was just sitting there. The pastor prayed, people around me too, the put oil in my forehead, the pastor pushed me, so dramatic! Anyways, like a week later one of the “sisters” came up to my mother’s friend and she told her that I had a “lesbian spirit” in me and that I needed help, to be prayed on. Later that week I feel that people are giving me the cold shoulder. So I decided to leeve the church not because they thought I was a lesbian, but because, I don’t think it was right what they did. I don’t think that Langston made a bad decision; I think I would have done the same if I was in that situation. Trying to avoid problems and doing what my elders want me to do. I think that Langston shows us in a very personal way what he feels, but honestly I didn’t feel that empathetic with the character.  In the story and salvation I think that are alike because both children did what the adult wanted them to do. In Rachel’s situation the teacher she wanted Rachel to put the sweater so she did, and Langston’s situation, the pastor and his aunt wanted him to be saved, so he got up and he was “saved”.