Langston Hughes was one of the most successful black writers of the middle 20’Th century. He was born in Missouri February first 1901. His parents divorced when he was just a young boy, and he was sent to live with his grandmother. After his parent’s divorce his father moved to Mexico and his mother remarried in Lincoln, Illinois. When he was thirteen he moved to Lincoln to live with his mother and step-father. He started writing poetry and short stories soon after and continued writing throughout high school. After graduation from high school he moved to Mexico to live with father for a year. He spent a year in Mexico, and then enrolled in Columbia University. He only spent a year at Columbia then dropped out and took up odd jobs, all of this while still writing. His first book, The Weary Blues, got published in 1924. He finished his college education at Lincoln University in 1930, also the same year; he won the Harmon Gold Metal for Literature for his first novel Not Without Laughter. Throughout his life Hughes wrote over 50 books and one Broadway show (“Langston Hughes” 1).
Langston Hughes uses “Salvation” as a satirical look at organized religion though the eyes of a 12 y
with a “sinner” when by doing that they have now become sinners themselves, for the Bible states that only God shall judge. With that being said I’ll let you deiced which is
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