In “Salvation” by Langston Hughes, the boy finds himself in a church situation where all the elders of the church want all the young people of the church to be saved during a revival. In “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” a middle-aged man finds himself in France with the situation of wanting to learn French. In both narratives there are people who want the narrator to do something, but the narrator does not immediately cooperate. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay An example of such a struggle in “Salvation” would be in paragraphs five and six, when the boy has not yet come down to be saved and just sits there with his friend. An example of a fight in "Me Talk Pretty One Day" would be the teacher's horrible behavior on page 343 where the teacher outright tells the narrator "I hate you" or on page 344 where he stabs a student in the eye with a pencil. This creates a conflict in which the narrator feels belittled and as if he could never understand, as shown on pages 343 and 344. The conflict in Sedaris' article is slightly different; the boy wants to see Jesus physically and not just take everyone's word for it. Hughes makes this clear by saying “I kept waiting to see Jesus” in the fifth paragraph. However, something comes out of this conflict; the boy ends up being saved. Something emerges from the conflict also in Sedaris' article; in Sedaris' narrative, the narrator ends up understanding what the teacher says and is actually able to respond to her. The meaning of this is that someone might be able to understand a language but not necessarily speak it and never give up on learning. In Hughes' article the meaning would be that a problem may appear to be temporarily resolved, but may recur and cause stress later. In conclusion, both narratives are well written with conflicts between not doing exactly what their surroundings want them to do but overcoming it in their own way..