In "Salvation" by Langston Hughes, the young boy finds himself in a church in a situation where all the elders of the church want all the young people in the church to be saved in a revival. In “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” a middle-aged man is in France and wants to learn French. In both stories, people 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 Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay. An example of such a struggle in "Salvation" would be found in paragraphs five and six, when the boy still has not come down to save himself and he remains sitting there with his friend. An example of struggle in "Me Talk Pretty One Day" would be the teacher's horrible behavior on page 343 where the teacher flatly tells the narrator "I hate you" or on page 344 where she 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 him, as shown on pages 343 and 344. The conflict in Sedaris' article is a little different; the boy wants to see Jesus physically and not just take everyone's word for it. Hughes makes this clear when he says, “I was still waiting to see Jesus” in the fifth paragraph. However, something emerges from this conflict; the boy ends up being saved. Something also stands out about the conflict in Sedaris's article; in Sedaris's story, the narrator eventually understands what the teacher is saying and is actually able to respond. This means that someone may be able to understand a language but not necessarily speak it and never give up on learning. In Hughes' article, this would mean that a problem may appear temporarily resolved, but could return and cause stress later. In conclusion, both stories are well written, with conflicts of not doing exactly what the environment wants them to do but overcoming it in their own way..