Langston Hughes (shares an incident in his teens which has left him disappointed him quite a bit. His aunt has planned to take him to the church for the big revival. She is quite excited about the event as she keeps talking about it for days before it happens. Hughes is really happy because he believes that he will have a great experience at the Church. Hughes's aunt has lifted his spirits by telling him that after being revived he will be able to see the light and welcome Jesus into his life. Hughes goes to the revival with high expectations and waits to be enlightened. He feels bad that hordes of other people have managed to see the light and see Jesus while he hasn't had a chance so far. Hughes can't understand why he can't see Jesus when other people have seen him and saved themselves from sin. It's a further blow for him when the only other boy sitting next to him jumps up and decides to be "saved" as he is feeling tired and cant wait to leave. Hughes puts up the charade of being saved only because his aunt and the congregation is worried that he is not responding. He is devastated that he can't see Jesus and has lost his faith in him. "I had deceived everybody in the church, I hadn't seen Jesus, and that now I didn't believe there was a Jesus anymore, since he didn't come to help me."(Hughes,Langston.Salvation, The Big Sea,1940) Judith Ortiz Cofer's talks about the role her family beliefs and culture had in her upbringing. She talks about her trips to countries overseas where people have stereotyped views of Latin women and think of them fit for roles as housewives or sex objects. Cofer is grateful that her family has brought her up with strictness and grooming her to be a proper senorita (lady). "Growing up in a large urban center in New Jersey during the 1960s , I suffered from what I think of as "Cultural Schizophrenia". (Cofer, Judith Ortiz. The Myth o...