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In the short story On the Road written by Langston Hughes, the main character’s name is Sargeant, a tall eccentric black man. He resides in a racist community where black people do not have rights. Sargeant is compared to Billy, also a main character in the short story Drummer written by Guy Vanderhaeghe. Billy is a young man with principals and morals, what does these characters have or don’t have in common to their personality? What makes them so significant in these pieces of literature? Sargeant, in the middle of winter is looking for shelter in his racially challenged community. He is freezing so he decides to go in a whites only church of course he gets rejected. But Sargeant has no intention of leaving, otherwise if he did he would nearly freeze to death. He says to the reverend of the church, “I know it’s a white folks church, but I got to sleep somewhere” (Hughes, Langston. On the Road. 484). So he clutches his hands to the door of the church he was going against the