Langston, why don?t you come? Why don?t you come and be saved? Oh, Lamb of God! Why don?t you come??(paragraph 10, ?Salvation?) Hughes gives the dramatic scene of a church where people are being saved and yet it seems as though there is trouble as Auntie Reed repeats herself again and again. Langston Hughes was known as the ?Bard of Harlem? telling the tails of his ethnicity with rich details as to give the reader a free flowing understanding of his writing. ?The preacher preached a wonderful rhythmical sermon, all moans and shouts and lonel
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(12) Langston Hughes gives ?it? to the reader right here in this four word quote. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. y cries and dire pictures of hell, and then he sang a song about ninety and nine safe in the fold, but one little lamb was left out in the cold. ?God damn! I?m tired o? sitting her. ?(paragraph 6, ?Salvation?) Ironically, Hughes uses this taking of the Lord?s name in vain to convey to the reader that those who may be saved truly aren?t saved at all they are just fooling them selves. These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next two weeks. He hadn?t been saved nor did he see Jesus. ?It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. ?Silent men were squatting at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them. ? (11) The other lad waited for Jesus to come, but he never did. ??now I didn?t believe there was a Jesus any more, since he didn?t come to help me. We were waiting outside the condemned cells. ? (8) As soon as the reader thinks that the man may have some chance for salvation, he doesn?t. ?
Far from a child?s world, George Orwell writes of a place where no children exist.
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