Essay Analysis: The Treasure of Lemon Brown
By: Lauren Davis
Why does this title have a peculiar title to it and what is it about? The short story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” by Walter Dean Myers, is about a young boy named Greg Ridley who really struggles with school. At the time he was fourteen and failed his math class. His father would always give him lectures about how failing in school is not okay and in turn isn't aloud to play basketball. One day he got so mad that he ran away and ended up in some old run-down building with graffiti all over it. Greg has four big coming of age moments all throughout this story. Coming of age moments are big moments that happen in life. His first big moments is failing his first math class.
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Greg has two different scenarios when he operates in his ego. In the ego, the main concepts it focuses on are self esteem or self importance. He knew at first that he should of started to study but instead, he walked out of the house down the street, and, “Stood to go upstairs, thought of the lecture that probably awaited him if he did anything except shut himself in his room with his math book, and started walking down the street instead,” (Myers 1). The second time he performed in his ego was when he doesn’t know wrong from right, “His father’s words, like the distant thunder that now echoed through the streets of Harlem, still rumbled softly in his ears,” (Myers 1). He doesn’t really know whether to study or run away, study or play basketball, trespass or not trespass.
The superego is the morality principle where a person feels responsible towards society. It also blocks out aggression and can cause guilt. Greg operated in his superego when he returned home, “He thought ahead of what his father would say and wondered if he should tell him about Lemon Brown. He thought about it until he reached his stoop, and decided against it,” (Myers 8). He didn’t want to tell his father about Lemon Brown because he didn’t want to get in even more trouble or another lecture, “Greg pushed the button over the bell marked Ridley, thought of the lecture he knew his father would give him, and smiled,”
“One day I got tired, sat down to rest a spell...hard times caught up to me”. Said the old battered and bruised Lemon Brown as he was explained his life to a teenager named Greg. This story taking place around the 1990s in Harlem New York is a story of a young black child named Greg who went to an abandoned basement and met Lemon Brown who explained his ideas that everyman has a treasure as they got interrupted by robbers who later left.
Treasure. Some people have them, others don’t, but we all have that one special thing we love and cherish. Whether it's a person or a thing, everyone has them. Some people have their pets, others may have something someone special gave them. But to one dad its his sons education. In the story “ The Treasure of Lemon Brown” Greg, who is the main character gets lectures from his dad because he is doing bad in school. There is also Lemon Brown, who lost his son in war but still treasures him, and the respect he had for him. Some say treasures can be personal, which I agree, but others think they are not.
Imagine losing your memory. The people you’ve met, the places you’ve been, everything you know about the world, are gone. Would you ever return to how you were before the memory wipe, or would you become a whole new person, with a new perspective on everything as you experience all the firsts in life a second time. Henry Turner, the protagonist of the movie Regarding Henry experiences this catastrophe. Henry is a successful lawyer who is (on the surface) having a wonderful life.
Life of a King conveys the story of recently released Eugene Brown. Having served 17 years for armed robbery, he learned the game of chess from fellow inmate Searcy, who is incarcerated for life. Searcy gifts him a hand-carved wooden king before his release telling him, “take care of the king, everything else follows” (Kelly & Young & Goldberger, 2014). With not many remaining connections and friends on the outside of prison walls, Eugene is left to find work and make sense of his life on the outside, including an estranged relationship with his teenage son and adult daughter. He struggles to find work and ends up working as a janitor at an inner city school after lying on his application. He performs a favour for the principal Sheila
Goldberg saw the millions of oppressed Jews of the Soviet Union, and knew he had to act. Goldberg traveled to USSR on a mission trip to help persecuted Jews while he was still in college. What he discovered on that trip, changed his life forever. Instead of going back to school, Goldberg felt a internal calling to live in Israel. He worked on a kibbutz as a farm hand until he joined the IDF. There are multiple reasons as to join the IDF; Goldberg felt there was a duty to join as a Jew and because of his belief in preserving the state of Israel. In the IDF he served as a military police and prison guard at Ketziot.
Mint declared as he swung his blade against the enemy Silver. The young man jumped back, barely avoiding Mint's attack. The Silver collapsed on the hard earth as he struggled to get back on his feet. He felt a chill go up against his spine as he felt the tip of the blade lightly dance across his gray skin. An ocean of sweat ran down the attacker, taking deep breaths, the enemy Silver lifted his hands over his head. His eyes widened with fear as he looked up at the young man threatening to take his life away.
The Hidden Treasure of Gladston , is written by Eleanore M. Jewett. Jewett has a master’s degree in literature. She was born in New York City, New York. She was deeply interested in medieval times. The setting of this book is at Gladston, Britain in the medieval times. Most of this book is made of true facts. Though some of the facts are from different time periods in the medieval times. In all this book is a fiction book.
First i’d like to state that as a person who favors humanistic views i may come off a little bias however, there is plenty of evidence to prove that he does in fact use his superego more than his id. The first and most convincing piece of evidence is that once Mr.Turner found out that his case was wrong and they left out a major piece of information ( a patient said he was diabetic and the nurse did not write it down he argued that the hospital didn’t know but they did ) he went back to the victims wife and gave her the piece of information saying “here give this to your lawyer” that is a major role being played by the superego specifically the moral half of the superego. The second piece of evidence is that he felt extreme remorse about his daughter leaving to go to the private school that they signed her up for. Another compelling example is when Mr.Turner finds out that his wife had been cheating although he did not do much he should extreme discontent leading one to think that he knew morally he had been cheated and robbed of his
Superego: This is that part of our psyche that determines how we think we should react in a given situation. This is the development of morals, what is right and what is wrong. It is a further development of control over the id response.
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Freud identifies an overwhelming sense of guilt as one of the central problems threatening modern civilization since individuals have consequently begun to rebel against civilization with an aggression that exceeds the level of aggression originally suppressed, threatening the disintegration of society, and attributes it to the operation of the superego, an internal psychical agency that monitors the intentions and actions of the ego, keeping the aggressive instincts of the latter in check. Essentially, the aggression that was initially directed outside of the self is redirected into the self. A part of the ego separates from the rest to form the superego. Conflict between the ego and superego creates guilt, a need for punishment. Another term for the superego is conscience. Freud traces the formation of
The area consists of all the internalized norms, values, and feelings that are taught in the socialization process. The superego brings the social pressures of reality to push upon the id. The superego exhibits society’s restraint on the id. When the id is saying, "I want that," the superego is saying, "Wait, slow down, think about this for a little bit. Is this right?" The superego acts as the mind’s conscience and responds to the social rules.
It was a cloudy, rainy day and Amy did not feel like going to school. She was a bullying girl from her classmates just to be a smart and dedicated person. Amy walked very quietly walking with her pink umbrella to school, when she suddenly stumbled over a stone and fell into a puddle with lots of water, when she got up she could see that something was shining, it was a keychain with very strange keys, they were not common, they looked as if they had come out of a fairy tale, or as if with them you could open some lost pirate treasure, Amy took the keys and asked people who were close to her, if they belonged to them, but they all refused, the keys seemed to have no owner.
Finally, Myers states that "the superego strives for perfection and judges our actions, producing positive feelings of pride or negative feelings of guilt" (380). The superego acts as the mind's conscience. In the story, the narrator, Mama, clearly represents the superego portion of the mind structure because of her guilty conscience and her wishes to be perfect, both mentally and physically.
If Freud is right, conscience is only a temporary restraint that remains tied to our dependence on the superego. Reality, however, shows that conscience is not so easily got rid of and the force of its voice is such that it has to be reckoned with at the moral, not just the emotional level. The breakdown of the relationships that form the superego does not mean the disappearance of moral values. We continue to hear the voice of conscience long after we have outgrown the parental or social values that we originally inherited.