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
This is one of the event that change Hughes life at the age of twelve. 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. Society has caused him to loose his faith in God at an early age in life all because of lack of explanation. 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). 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. He thought he was going to see Jesus with his two-nicked eye just like they had told him. When he was placed in front of everybody in front of the church getting ready to be saved, Hughes waited for Jesus Christ to come and save him. 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. Hughes Langston waited in front of everybody for a long time and still couldn't see Jesus. Everybody including the minister was saying to him "why don't you come? My dear child, why do
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Approximate Word count = 956
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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