Overall Thinking Behind Langston HughesLangston Hughes paints a portrait of himself, as he continues until age thirteen in church, but finds himself reflecting directly on behavior man's instinct for obedience. A congregation that wants him to come up and be saved, yields to obedience and walks to the altar as if he had seen the light of the Holy Spirit himself. "Will you not come? Will you not come to Jesus? Young lambs, will you not come?" As the preacher stood there with open arms, the girls cried, the children stood demonstrating that they had felt the power of the Holy Spirit through their bodies. There Langston sits, feeling nothing but himself, sitting in a hot church, waiting for this unknown pheumone to come and touch his inner soul only to discover that the Holy Spirit is not coming for him at all. The character in the short story includes a young boy who lies to his church about feeling God through his soul. Hughes feels this betrayal from his family and the church itself and is a boy very afraid of the actions that might await him. Hughes' essay would be described in the process of telling the story in a meditative writing style. Hughes doesn't comb through the details, but gives a basic picture to try to paint in your head. But the thought process shown in the storyline is very smooth. Hughes tries not to make an argument or even make it logical. But as the story progresses, you discover that he's sort of using a method of foresight to make you think about the story after you've read it. He doesn't want to perpetuate a picture in your mind, but let the reader himself paint a picture in his mind using his own brush as he goes. He wants you to feel the way you want. He wants you to be you. The essay itself tells you through the story, why would he do that? As the story progresses it continues to make you think that if he hadn't lied to the church but he would have followed his obedience and not looked for others to do so. follow. But as the story progresses and the story comes to an end. You realize that the character who lied to a crowd at church to mature in his own way and understand what he did was wrong..