"Salvation" and "Chase"

Salvation and The Chase are stories that both writers exposed their childhood experiences. In the story Salvation we see Langston excited about having an encounter with Jesus. Like in Salvation, we see in The Chase how Dillard is very excited as well about throwing snowballs to the passing cars. That’s one similitude; in both stories both child are excited about something they are doing or will do. Something different that I found within the stories is how they both ended. In “Salvation” Langston is excited with his aunt in church sitting in the front bench waiting to see Jesus. When Dillard sees that he is the one that stills sitting in the bench, he decided to go to the platform and lied to the preacher saying that he saw Jesus. At the end of the day, he found himself crying because he lied to the whole congregation and to his aunt. He is disappointed of himself. In the other story, The Chase, we see Dillard running everywhere trying to escape from a man who she threw a snowball. At the end the man gets Dillard and her friend and starts screaming at them. Dillard and her friend were very scared, but she said that if that man would’ve killed her that day she would of have died happy because she enjoyed trying to escape from the man. In Salvation the end of Langston was that he felt bad for lying and very disappointed. While in the other hand Dillard had a great experience running away from the man who was chasing her and her friend.
One lesson I think that Langston, from the story Salvation learned, was probably to always tell the truth and always do what the heart tells you. Langston found himself in the bench, felt the pressure that the preacher put on him and that’s why he decided to lied.
The lesson that Dillard learned is that she should not through snowballs to the cars passing by. She should always measure her actions.