One day I was walking down fifth street and I saw a man pull something out of the trash and he saw me eyeing him and he told me what was one man's trash is another man's treasure. The kid wanted to play on the recreation basketball team, but, his grades were poor, so he left the house in a rage and meet someone. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown written by Walter Dean Myers, the author portrays the theme that sometimes you have to let someone else open your eyes because people get too focused on one thing that they can't see other things.
The author uses the character's actions to prove the theme because, the boy changes his view on his dad. When the character in the story storms out of the house he doesn't realize that his dad's trying to help
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When the boys leaves home, he doesn't really care about what his dad says or what lemon brown is saying to him he his talking to Lemon brown, but doesn't think he's harmful or cares enough to give him a good answer, “Greg relaxed. He had seen the man before, picking through the trash on the corner and pulling clothes out of a Salvation Army box. There was no sign of a razor that could cut a week into nine days.” This shows he doesn't care about brown and just wants to be left alone. It also shows greg thinks Lemon Brown is weak. When the boy howls when the gang is trying to take Lemon Brown's treasure he takes him seriously along with his dad the boy realizes Lemon Brown is powerful and that his dad is trying to help him succeed, “As Greg howled, the light moved away from Lemon Brown, but not before Greg saw him hurl his body down the stairs at the men who had come to take his treasure. There was a crashing noise, and then footsteps.” This shows that the boy learned Lemon Brown can be powerful if he wants to be. It also shows Greg respects Lemon Brown for being
It shows that the boy is trying to escape. It's sad that his mother wasn't able to do nothing her
Living in the tall skyscrapers and smoggy air of Harlem is very different than living in a small town with barns and grassy fields. You will see how living in Harlem effects parenting, compared to the parenting in a normal neighborhood. In this essay on The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers, the differences in parenting style, discipline of grades, and activeness of fathers between Greg’s father and my father are made clear.
In the realistic fiction story, "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Myers, Greg Ridley a fourteen-year-old boy, starts off by getting a lecture from his dad, about his poor grades in math. Greg is upset and he walks away from his house to get some alone time. As Greg is walking, a rainstorm strikes. While he is trying to find shelter, he comes upon an abandoned apartment complex. As Greg walks in he finds out that he isn't the only one in the apartment, an old man named Lemon Brown is also there. Lemon is there for a different reason though. He is trying to hide his treasure, an old harmonica, from the neighborhood thugs. The thugs weren't successful in getting Lemon's treasure. Greg returns home with a valuable lesson learned, that he should value things in life. Greg changes from the beginning of the story to the end of the story. At the beginning, Greg was careless about his grades in math. Next, he was curious when looking for a place to hide from the rain. Lastly, he ends the story off by being a caring person when he continuously asked Lemon Brown if he was okay. Greg Ridley was a dynamic character who changed from careless, to curious, to caring, after his encounters with Lemon Brown.
The story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” is a story that tells the tale of how Greg Ridley is having a bad day. His grades are low, and he is going to be kicked off the basketball team by his dad because of his latest math grade. Things start to turn when Greg stumbles upon the abandoned tenement that Old Man Lemon Brown lives in. In there, he learns an important lesson that will change him forever. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” the author, Walter Dean Myers, expresses the theme that everyone has their niche, or how Lemon Brown calls it, a ‘Treasure’ and the lesson to not judge a book by it’s cover. This theme connects to main character Greg Ridley, who is having trouble with
Greg and from “The treasure of Lemon Brown,” is one of the main characters.He is a kid around kid middle school and loves basketball.In the beginning of the book we find out that Greg is failing math and may not be able to play basketball because the way Greg acts impacts his dad because his dad wants him to do good in school so he will do good in life.That is one of the two people Greg impacts in the story.Lemon Brown is another character that Greg impacts.They meet when Greg tries to escape the rain by going into an abandon house and meets Lemon Brown.They end up chasing away crooks after the criminals tried to steal from them.After this situation Lemon Brown realizes that he isn’t lonely anymore and that someone cares for him.
In the story "The Treasure of Lemon Brown", Greg Ridley meets Lemon Brown (a.k.a. Sugar Lemon Brown). During his time with Lemon Brown, Greg learns an important lesson from Lemon Brown's life that changes his point of view of family.
Lemon Browns Treasure is by Walter Dean Myers, and it's a short story. Lemon Brown is a caring fellow, who would do anything; even for a stranger. Lemon Brown is countless things, but he doesn't fall too short of being a friendly old man. For example, Lemon Brown launched himself at the thugs, because Greg was there. Lemon Brown would let the thugs mess with him, but not with Greg. On page 736, Greg stood on the landing. He listened, and after a while, there was another sound coming from the staircase. It was Lemon Brown. Lemon Brown would not hesitate to do something brave for someone he had just met. Another reason why Lemon Brown is kind is that Lemon Brown showed his treasure to Greg. They sent back what he has with him over there, and
To start off, Lemon Brown didn’t move when the people tried to take his treasure. The story says, “Lemon Brown didn’t move. Greg felt himself near near panic. The steps came closer, and still Lemon Brown didn’t move.” In his head, he may be thinking that nobody could touch
Because of that night that the neighborhood thugs came over to threaten Lemon Brown, he treasured his security that he gave to Greg. For example, he got concerned about Lemon’s safety when the muggers said “Throw down your money, old man, so I won’t have to bash your head in!” Lemon Brown didn’t move. Greg felt himself near panic.This shows that Greg cared for Lemon and that he treasured a man that he just met. Lastly, Greg also treasured how his dad cared for him and his future. While Lemon Brown and Greg were communicating over Lemon’s history, Greg slowly felt the satisfaction of happiness when he realized that his dad was just trying to teach/encourage him to have a good work ethic. All of this stuff that he heard about and reflected on made him realize what he actually had in his
So Lemon Brown and Greg begin to talk and Greg becomes friends with Lemon Brown Fast. Greg is a very friendly kid it's just he gets mad sometimes because his dad is extremely strict but he is really friendly. The text states,”I'm not looking for treasure”(Myers 210). He says this because he's not a thug looking for gold he's just a friendly kid. Greg is also trusting because he has enough trust for Lemon brown because he's not scared of him or running away from him or anything.
This theme is important to the story because the main character's situation poses too much of a challenge to deal with. With the narrator stating that “Having a brother who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him”
In the “Lemon Brown” article, there are several examples of how one person can guide the other person from making bad choices. To begin with Walter Dean Myers states on page 25,” If you know your Papa did something, you know you can do something too.” This shows Lemon Brown is a good man who values hard work, and that he is more than just bum in the streets. Furthermore, this also illustrates Lemon Brown was the positive role model and now Greg can see the role model in his father as well. Myers also states on page 26,”
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.
It has been said that parents try to lead their child’s development in four ways. They steer their child in the way that they prefer developmentally pathway wise. They reward their kids with assistance such as books, equipment, tutoring, or allowing their kids to become involved in extra-curricular activities. They really try hard to control the pathway their child takes in life. Lastly, parents react to their child’s direction the kid chooses. In chapter 2 of the book the boys realize that they need to act with order and rules if they want to be rescued, but the longer they are away from adults who tell them what to do they start to act out
The boy has numerous different identites, his mindset is childlike, next he is seemingly living different lives relying on the people around him and reacts in certain ways when put in multiple types of situations.