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A 4 page essay that discusses and analyzes Langston Hughes’ vignette “Salvation,” which recounts an incident from Hughes’ childhood. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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"finest work in the great flowering of American-American literature known as the Harlem Renaissance" (Sundquist 55) . "Salvation" by Langston Hughes is a vignette taken from the first volume
of his autobiography and it describes how, at the urging of his "adoptive aunt, Mary Reed," in succumbed to group pressure and made the "agonizing decision to be saved" (Baldwin
981). "Salvation," while written as prose, clearly shows Hughes talent as a poet, as his use of language is lyrical and descriptive. The narrative focuses on a "big
revival" meeting that Hughes attended at with his aunt at the age of twelve, close to his thirteenth birthday. The entire point of this particular service was to convince the
children of the community to commit themselves to Christ-to be "saved." Hughes lyric gift for language is evident throughout his description, as he relates that the "preacher preached a wonder
rhythmical sermon, all moans and shouts and lonely cries and dire pictures of hell" (Hughes). After a particularly poignant hymn that ends with "one little lamb" being left outside
the fold, the preacher makes his appeal to the children to stand up and be "saved" (Hughes). Several little girls jump up at once, but Hughes had listened when told
that Jesus would come to him and change him and that he would feel different. He waited for the difference to occur. The adult members of the congregation surrounded
the boys who remained seated. Again, Hughes description is vivid and makes the scene come alive by selecting words that paint an image in the readers mind. There were "old
women with jet-black faces and brained hair, old men with work-gnarled hands...the whole building rocked with prayer and song" (Hughes). Finally, Hughes was the sole holdout. Hughes aunt came
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