Slavtion
Comprehensive thinking behind Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes paint a picture of himself, as he goes on to thirteen in church but finds himself directly reflecting on mans own instinctive behavior for obedience. A congregation who wants him to go up and get saved, gives into obedience and goes to the altar as if he has seen the light of the Holy Spirit itself. “won’t you come? Wont you come to jesus? Young lambs, wont you come?” As the preacher stilling there with open arms, girls crying, kids standing that they have felt the power force of the holy spirit through there body. There, Langston, sits not feeling anything but himself sitting in a hot church waiting for this unknown pheumona to come and touch his inner soul only to find out that the Holy Spirit isn’t coming for him at all.
The persona of the short story includes a young boy that lies to his church about feeling god through his soul. Hughes feels that betrayal of his family and the church itself and is a very......
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