In “On the Road” by Langston Hughes, Sargeant faces the racial discrimination of his time, as a black man trying to find a place to say the night in a time when many people are homeless. Langston Hughes writes his story almost parallel with that of the biblical story in Judges 16. Sargeant represents Samson in Judges and the townspeople represent the Philistines. In “On the Road” Sargeant has to make it through doors to get …showed first 75 words of 375 total…

…showed last 75 words of 375 total…represents Sargeants. After Samson’s capture in Judges he pleads to god to give him some strength back so that he may pull down the prison house, which God gives him. Samson pulls the prison house on top of everyone including himself. At the end of “On the Road” Sargeant tells the police officer that he will break down the door to the prison. Both Sargeant and Samson show that faith allows someone do anything.