Salvation

My selected essay is called Salvation by Langhes Hughes. In his essay he wrote about himself when he was twelve-year-old, and how he was misleading by his auntie Reed and his other church members. When Hughes was twelve year old about to turn thirteen, he was told by his auntie Reed and the other members in his church, that the day he will be brought in front of everybody in church and be prepared to be saved; something will happen to him on the inside. They told him that he will see and feel Jesus in his soul and when he is saved, he will see a light and from that moment on Jesus will be in his soul forever.

When that day finally comes, he was brought in front of everybody with the other children that were also sinners and they were all really to be saved by Jesus Christ. All the events that they told him were going to happen to him happened except the most important event: which was the part about Jesus Christ coming into his life and saving him from evil. At the end of that day when Hughes went to bed, he cried in bed alone not because the Holy Ghost had came into his life like his auntie Reed and the other church members believed. But because he was feeling guilty about lying and deceiving everybody at the church

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Everybody including the minister was saying to him “why don’t you come? My dear child, why don’t you come to Jesus? Jesus is waiting for you. This particular quote was a very effective part of the essay because it’s really show and make us feel how he had feel about what happened to him at the age of twelve; and how he still feels at the time he was writing this essay. The author purpose, which was to express his feelings, was perfectly accomplished in his essay because he narrates and used the most perfect word to describe every little details that happen and how and how he felt before, during and after the event.

This particular quote showed us what his auntie Reed and the other folks had caused him to believed by not really explaining to him what they meant when they told him that he is “going to see and feel Jesus Christ in his soul”(1095).

My favorite part of the essay was when he was telling us what his auntie Reed thought was making him cry in bed on that particular night after the ceremony and his believes from that night on. Society has caused him to loose his faith in God at an early age in life all because of lack of explanation. They told him that he will “ see a light”(1095) as a signal to let him know that he has be saved by God and from that moment on “God will be in his soul for forever”(1095) Hughes was only twelve year old for God Sake.

This is one of the event that change Hughes life at the age of twelve. He was expecting to see Jesus with his eyes, feel him and to see the light that was suppose to be the signal to let him know that he has be saved by God.

“So he decided that maybe to save further trouble, he’d better lie, too, and say that Jesus had come and saved him” and he got up from the bench and was saved. This is what society, which in this case were his auntie Reed and the other members of his church, had cause him to believed because they did not define and explain to him what they specifically mean about the church event. Hughes Langston waited in front of everybody for a long time and still couldn’t see Jesus. She woke up and told my uncle that I was crying because the Holy Ghost had come into my life, and because I had seen Jesus.

Approximate Word count = 956
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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