How the authors and readers create meaning from text:

Although these three stories are unrelated to each other they share many examples of symbolism that both the authors as well as the intended audience can create meaning from. The descriptive words that the authors used can better help the readers understand the concept behind the story as well as any symbolism that may be in the story. Salvation, by Langston Hughes tells a story of when Langston was younger and he went to a church revival with his aunt. The revival lasted several weeks and culminated with the younger members of the church being saved. Although the readers could probably envision a church revival, especially if they have been to one the descriptive wording further helped to imagine what was going on. The text helped to create the meaning of the purpose of the revival as well as how Langston felt about being saved. Based on the text it was apparent that Langston was unaware of some the language from his aunt as well as older relatives and friends. He was told by his aunt that, “When you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you on the inside! And Jesus came into your life” (pg. 343). I completely understood the meaning of that. I also can understand why a young child would take those comments literally and expect to see Jesus. Throughout the revival because of the lack of vision of Jesus, Langston was confused about being saved. This was the most symbolic meaning created by text in this story. Misery just like Salvation is extremely descriptive with the text. The text gives the readers a descriptive account of the location as well as what time of the year it is. “The twilight of the evening. Big flakes of wet snow…” (Pg.85, 2014) further tells us what it was like outside during that time of night. Based on all of the Russian dialects the