Lesson 1：salvation.doc

Lesson one Salvation (saving of the soul from sin. The word has a strong religious connotation) Langston hughes: (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) 蓝斯顿休斯(Langston Hughes)是1920年代的非裔美人艺术运动：哈林文艺复兴运动(Harlem Renaissance)中，最重要的作家及思想家之一。哈林文艺复兴运动是一项用来颂扬黑人的生活及文化的活动。休斯的创作深受他在纽约市哈林区的生活影响，哈林区是最主要的非裔美人居住地区。他的文学作品有助塑造美国文学及政治。就像其他活跃于哈林文艺复兴运动中的艺术家，休斯也拥有强烈的种族自尊；藉由他所创作的诗词、小说、剧本、散文及童书，他提倡平等、诅咒种族歧视及不公，并赞美非裔美人的文化、幽默感及灵性。 Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughess creative genius was influenced by his life in New York Citys Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood. His literary works helped shape American literature and politics. Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and childrens books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality. . Salvation: (summary) Langston Hughes creates a past experience into a true to life drama of guilt, deception, and grief, in Salvation. He reveals the story of how he was forced into receiving Christ by his peers, relatives, and preacher. Helpless and alone, he struggles against overwhelming odds. After a long-winded sermon the children of the congregation are asked to come forward and accept Jesus. Instead of moving forward, Langston waits for the Lord to come to him. When nothing happens, Langston goes forward anyway just to please his aunt and the church. In the end he is not only grief-stricken, but has Lost all belief in God. sin vs crime: (note: p.5) going on thirteen: get nearer--- I don’t know her exact age, but she may be forty-one going on forty-two. revival: a series of meetings (called revivial meetings【宗】复兴布道会; Very quickly非常快地：growing by leaps and bounds.长得飞快 to bring the young lamb to the fold: to bring the ch