Perhaps each of us at a given point in our lives has found a set of personal circumstances to be the most difficult of all others. Often times it is taking our focus of our own problems and placing them on another’s, that we find truth in who bears the greater difficulty. Through comparing the situation of a character from the short-story “On the Road” to situation of a man this character encounters, I believe everyone will become enlightened on just how easy we have it sometimes.
The story “On the Road” introduces the reader to a Negro man by the name of Sargeant who is seeking shelter from the snowy cold. Sargeant is described as being “hungry, sleepy, tired, and unemployed”(Hughes 617). On his mission to seed shelter, Sargeant journeyed to the Parsonage Reverend Dorset. Reverend Dorset was unsympathetic toward Sargean
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While walking with Jesus, Sargeant seemed to lose focus of his problems. By the time the police had arrived Sargeant forced the church and crucifix to cratter. Abandoned and desperate to find refuge, Sargeant found himself at the doorstep of the local church. Sargeant is so upset that he has been put in jail that he is kicking, screaming and threatening to break down the door. Matthew 27:37 tells us that “Jesus was charged for being King of the Jews”(Matthew 1022). The story of Jesus Christ, the man Sargeant encountered that cold night, is very similar to the circumstances Sargeant encountered.
It appears to the reader that once Sargeant begins to conversate with Christ that he seems to forget his problems. Then all of a sudden he appears to have calmed down and comments, “I wonder where Christ has gone”(Hughes 619). The story makes it evident that when Sargeant was in the most desperate of times he reflected on Jesus. His eagerness to find resolve compelled Sargeant to push through the locked door of the church. Sargeant seemed to develop a concern for Christ. He no longer seems to be bothered with finding food, shelter, and rest.
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