In the stories “ The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and The Pearl by John Steinbeck both main characters face conflict that changes their lives and their views of what is important in life. Greg is a high school boy who is doing poorly in math but wants to play basketball, while Kino is a man who loves his family intensely but finds himself suddenly rich-- but envied. Both characters in these enlightening stories had strong feelings about what is important, have experiences that radically change their views, but find their conflicts resolved in the end.
First off, both Greg and Kino have a fixed opinion about what is important in life before their incidents that make them change, Greg’s being basketball and Kino’s being family. “And you want to play basketball... Now you just get into your room and hit those books!” Greg is has his priorites off meaning that he rather play basketball, which distracts him from his studies. Also, the principal call his father to complain meaning that it is greatly impacting his academic focus. “ It was very good- Kino closed his eyes
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“ “You really think that treasure of yours was worth fighting for?” Greg asked. “Against a pipe?” This encounter and conversation with Lemon Brown helps Greg realize that his dad was doing all he did for his future. Greg’s father was trying make sure that Greg knew that he was just trying to help Greg be successful, meaning that academics have to be more important that basketball. Kino’s hand leaped to catch it, but it fell past his fingers, fell on the baby’s shoulder, landed and struck.” When the scorpion stings Coyotito, Kino is forced to go pearl diving, which leads to him finding the Pearl. This pearl drives Kino to change and be possessed to change his attitude from kind and content to morbid and murderous.Kino and Greg’s point of view for life both changes in abrupt and impetuous
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.
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
Randy Wilkerson, a young boy, walked the cold streets of New York on a school night after dinner. He stumbled upon an old woman with a beautiful old ring. After time went on, the old woman told Randy the back story of just how significant that ring was to her and her life. Randy, a lot like Greg Ridley, understood the importance of his life after hearing a back story from Lemon Brown’s perspective. In the story “Treasure of Lemon Brown” Walter Dean Myers, the author, establishes the theme by showing readers that what's important to someone, isn't something that has to do with money.
This was a chance of a lifetime for Greg. He hadn’t been allowed to play high school ball, which he had really wanted to do, but playing for the Community Center Team was the next best thing.” This shows Greg's disappointment and anger after the discussion with his father. He believes his father is holding him back by not letting him play ball with the Scorpions. But in reality, Greg is so upset, he can’t see the fact that his father is just trying to help him.
“The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.” Descriptive adjectives help a reader picture the setting in their mind and also understand the mood in the story. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen, the authors use descriptive adjectives to develop the setting and mood.
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.
Ellen Hunnicutt once said “. . . figurative language adds pizzazz. It raise work above the plain, the dull, the ordinary.” This quote explains how using figurative language helps create a more interesting and useful way of expressing a tone of a character or event.Figurative language is a uses of words, phrases, and sentences to help to make the characters and story line come more to live in the reader’s mind. Some examples of Figurative languages are similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, and many more. Figurative language help the reader see tone and mood in each of the example of figurative language because the reader can see or image the event or character in their mind. In a story, poem, or any form of writing, figurative language is extremely important to a reader because if a sentence didn’t have figurative language the reader may not find the story or poem interesting or even find it confusing and difficult to understand.In addition the use of figurative language is crucial when an author is writing. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and The Pigman, By Paul Zindel, the authors used Figurative language to develop the tone of their stories so that that the reader can visualize it in their mind.
Hank Brown is a man of great fame and fortune. He lives in wealth and goes to great measures to protect that. One day he wakes up and finds that his house has been broken into and most of his wealth has been taken from him. Hank tells himself that very moment that he will be resilient and persistent in the search for his money and riches. Just like Hank, Lemon Brown is resilient in protecting his treasure from people who might want to steal it. Lemon Brown succeeds in his protection and wards of the unwanted thieves. The author of Treasure Of Lemon Brown ,Walter Dean Myers, depicts the theme that everyone has to protect their treasure from being stolen.
Though coyotito was small and had no way of talking or communicating, the pearl brought the most evil to him. He was innocent and unaware, but due to his father’s desires, he was murdered. Kino wanted him to have a chance, he wanted him to go to school, and have an education. “My son will go to school,” he said, and the neighbors were hushed.
For this book report, I have chosen to read the book, “The Pearl”. The book “The Pearl” has a very strong moral and plot. The book is classified under the genres “Fiction”, and “novella”. The book “The Pearl” has a total of 90 pages. John Steinbeck is the author of this book.
Ernest Hemingway after World War I moved to France where he joined a group of writers, journalist, and poets. He quickly befriended creative people like painters that helped inspire and develop as a writer as he worked for newspaper. The time he lived in post-war Paris helped inspire the novel The Sun Also Rises in which Ernest Hemingway depicts the lifestyles and emotions of a group of Americans living in post-war Paris with extremely vivid images since fundamentally because they’re from his actual experiences living in France with a group of Americans emigrants. The group depicted suffer from psychological trauma from the war and lead theirs uninspired life's doing simple activities such as eating, traveling, love, clubbing etc. The characters are unhonorable selfish cunts who don't worry about consequences or what their actions do to other people. The people depicted are the
Finally, Kino returns to La Paz and throws the pearl into the sea. Kino, a
After traveling long and fighting against the whole world, first with his town filled with people trying to steal it, then fighting for the money, then against himself and finally against the trackers, he was left weak, and there was no more strength to fight anymore. “The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience” (Steinbeck 88). His struggles with the pearl have left him dehumanized and stripped of emotions because after so many battles with himself and others, it has ruined the pearl’s value by taking away the shine and leaving a dusty grey as all of his original plans of a wedding, new clothes and an education for Coyotito have turned into memories of traumatic moments. “And in the surface of the pearl, he saw Coyotito lying in the little cave with the top of his head shot away.” (Steinbeck 89). Family was the strongest part of his life because it was Kino’s only power throughout his life, which is why when he returns back to his village, people don’t recognize him as he walks through people unbothered by their staring eyes that glare right through the hollowed soul, making them feel scared. Whether Kino can’t feel anymore or chooses to disconnect himself from that battle is a mystery, but, he is still left as a dehumanized
However, two vibrant changes occur as the story progresses —Coyotito, his son, getting stung by a scorpion and Kino’s discovery of the pearl—broaden Kino’s horizons and outlook on the world. As Kino begins to strive for wealth and education for his son, the simplicity of his life becomes increasingly complicated by greed, conflict, and violence. Kino’s character then falls through a gradual decline from a state of innocence to a state of corruption and disillusionment. The factors promoting this decline are ambition and greed. Thus, when going got tough for Kinoo and he had to escape town he faced a lot of hardships, since he had to go into hiding and the only immediate help he had was from his brother. This had an adverse effect on his personality as he became increasingly negative, given the way he hit his wife shows how the pearl preoccupied his mind to such a great extent that he grew indifferent to everything else as evil and restlessness eloped him. In addition to these social changes, Kinoo, after attaining the pearl was on the move to gain economic sustenance, but not being able to find the right price to sell his pearl got him feeling even more uncertain and disappointed but he continued to strive and was reluctant to give up because he wanted everything in his reach for his son, who he consequently ended up losing in the
The pearl's evil infects Kino like a ravaged disease and consumes his mind. He starts off with good intentions, but they become twisted. He wants to sell the pearl and use the money to better his family's lifestyle. He has dreams and goals that each depends on the pearl selling for a good price. Juana sensing the evil and greed coming from Kino attempts to destroy it. Kino beats her unmercifully. "He struck her in the face and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side...He hissed at her like a snake and she stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before a butcher." Juana sees through the outer beauty of the pearl and knew it would destroy Kino and herself. Kino's vision from the soul becomes blurred by the possible prosperity the pearl will bring. The evil invades Kino's life as well as everyone he knows and loves.