In Salvation by Langston Hughes, I thought his visual approach was the strongest element throughout the story. In the first couple paragraphs he explains the way everyone was praising the Lord and how they were waiting for him to be saved, he writes “and the whole building rocked with prayer and song”. This gives the image that the majority of the room had their hands up towards the sky and were swaying to the music, which is a common act to be seen in church. While the audience continued to praise, the Lord had still not come to him. “My aunt came and knelt at my knees and cried” for she was heartbroken he had not offered himself to be saved. Its easy to visualize her on the ground next to him crying as he looks around for a solution to his
