In Langston’s Hughes’ essay, “Salvation”, from The Big Sea, 1940, delivers a personal story about his behavior as a perceptive twelve year old boy and the church his family attended as a child. Hughes’s method of development is a narration. In the beginning of his essay, he immediately states, “I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen.” (Hughes 77). Here Hughes quickly emphasizes to his audience, that this is story based from personal experiences, vividly explains the chain of events as the night of “Becoming Saved”, unfolds. Hughes takes his reader directly into the setting, describing the anticipation from his Auntie Reed and church congregation. He reveals this was not an ordinary meeting, but a “revival“, where there is a
