Langston Hughes Paradox Of Salvation

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Hughes uses a paradox to open his essay. The paradox of salvation- “I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved.” The first two sentences allow the reader to see that the narrative is something that is going to be contradicting of itself. As the reader fully read the text the statement earn some degree of validity. The reader is able to see why Hughes’s would lay out such opposing ideas: the fact that Hughes was meant to be saved, but in his heart and mind, he never was, even though everybody else believed so. This paradox draws his readers’ attention and their curiosity to his essay. This irony also emphasized at the end of the essay. “……She woke up and told my uncle I was crying because the holy Ghost had come

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