IM WRITING AN ESSAY ON LANGSTON HUGHES ( SALVATION ) but i dont know how 2 begin my essay?

Question

i was saved from sin when i was going on thirteen but not really saved it happened like this.there was a big revival at my auntie reeds church.every nights 4 weeks there had been much preaching,praying and shouting and very hardened sinners had been brought 2 christ,and the membership of the church had grown by leaps and bounds.then just before the revival ended they held a special meeting for children 2 bring the young lambs to the fold.my aunt spoke of it for days ahead.that night i was escorted to the front row and placed on the mourners bench with all the other young sinnerswho had not yet been brought to jesusmy aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light and something happened to u insideand jesus came into your life and god was with you from then on she said u could see and hear and feel jesus in your soul i believe her i had heard a great many old people say the same thing and it seem to me they ought 2 know so i sat ther calmly in the hot crowded church waiting 4 him

Answer 1

From the text you've provided, it seems that Langston Hughes is (justifiably) skeptical about the claims of the revivalists.

Evangelicals misread the Gospels to provide for an oversimplified view of salvation. All one needs to do, as presented to 13-year-old Langston, is to make Jesus your personal savior. The instant and permanent salvation experience that follows is modeled somewhat after St. Paul seeing a bright light on the road to Damascus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Damascus

In fact, Jesus taught that salvation requires more than a single assent at age 13. These include baptism (Mark 16:16; John 3:5), believing Christ and putting faith in him (e.g., Luke 7:50, 8:12), self-renunciation (e.g., Matt 5:3, 10), repentence (Matt 3:2; 4:17; 18:8-9; Mark 9:42-48), obedience to God, doing what is right and just (e.g., Luke 10:25-28; John 12:50), adopting the humility of a child (Matt 18:3-4; 19:14), eating the bread of life (John 6:51, 53-54), and endurance to the end (Matt 10:22, 24:13; Mark 13:13, Luke 21:16-18).

Hughes concludes his story:

That night, for the first time in my life but one for I was a big boy twelve years old - I cried. I cried, in bed alone, and couldn't stop. I buried my head under the quilts, but my aunt heard me. She woke up and told my uncle I was crying because the Holy Ghost had come into my life, and because I had seen Jesus. But I was really crying because I couldn't bear to tell her that I had lied, that I had deceived everybody in the church, that I hadn't seen Jesus, and that now I didn't believe there was a Jesus anymore, since he didn't come to help me.

Unfortunately, Hughes rejects actual Christianity on the basis of the parody he experienced at age 13.

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

you can start with one of his famous quotes and then you can start talking about his work as a poet and his biography hope this helps!