How Did Langston Hughes Write Salvation
Writing Exercise #2
The essay ‘Salvation” by Langston Hughes was the essay I connected with most. The religious aspect if it enticed me to read further. To me it was ironic that Hughes titled the essay “Salvation” when in fact it seemed young 12-year-old Hughes had become more lost than before going to the revival. I feel as if that Hughes wanted readers to take an important theme away from the essay; peer pressure from adults has a big impact on small children.
Hughes style of writing is a unique combination of descriptive and narrative. “A great many old people came and knelt around us and prayed, old women with jet-black faces and braided hair, old men with work-gnarled hands. And the church sang a song about the lower lights are burning,
The essay ‘Salvation” by Langston Hughes was the essay I connected with most. The religious aspect if it enticed me to read further. To me it was ironic that Hughes titled the essay “Salvation” when in fact it seemed young 12-year-old Hughes had become more lost than before going to the revival. I feel as if that Hughes wanted readers to take an important theme away from the essay; peer pressure from adults has a big impact on small children.
Hughes style of writing is a unique combination of descriptive and narrative. “A great many old people came and knelt around us and prayed, old women with jet-black faces and braided hair, old men with work-gnarled hands. And the church sang a song about the lower lights are burning,