Comprehensive Thought Behind Langston Hughes Langston Hughes paints a picture of himself, as he reaches thirteen years old in church but finds himself reflecting directly on man's instinctive behavior for obedience. A congregation that wants him to come up and be saved surrenders to obedience and approaches the altar as if they have seen the light of the Holy Spirit himself. "won't you come? Won't you come to Jesus? Little lambs, won't you come?" As the preacher stands there with his arms open, the girls cry, the children stand who felt the powerful force of the holy spirit through their body. There, Langston, sits feeling nothing but himself, sitting in a warm church waiting for this unknown pheumona to come and touch his deepest soul only to find that the Holy Spirit is not coming for him at all. includes a boy who lies to his church about feeling God through his soul. Hughes feels the betrayal of his family and the church itself and is a boy very afraid of the actions that may await him. Hughes' essay would be described in the process of telling the story in a meditative writing style. Hughes doesn't dwell much on the details, but provides the basic picture to try to paint in your head. But the thought process shown in the plot is very smooth. Hughes tries not to make statements or even make it logical. But as the story progresses, you find that it uses a predictive method to make you think about the story after reading it. It is not meant to fix the image in your mind, but to let the reader himself paint a picture in your mind using his own brush as he goes. He wants you to feel the way you want. He wants you to be yourself. The essay itself tells you through the story, why would it? As the story goes on, it continues to make you think what would have happened if he had not lied to the church but had maintained his obedience and not sought out others to do so? follow. But as the story progresses, the story comes to an end. You realize that the character who once lied to the crowd in church to mature in his own way and understand what he had done was wrong.