Catreasure Of Lemon Brown Analysis

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What if you walked into an old abandoned house, and met an interesting old man? In the story, ¨Treasure of Lemon Brown¨ by Walter Dean Myers, he uses dialogue and figurative language to develop characters and character relationships. In the text it states, ¨look into the moon and see anything you want.¨ This dialogue shows that Lemon brown is trying to tell Greg what his boy looked like. I think he is trying to tell that his son was hopeful, young, naive but by doing this he used a hyperbole. He´s exaggerating and, you cannot actually look into someones eyes and see what you want. In the text it also says, ¨One day I got tired,sat down to rest a spell, and felt a tap on my shoulder.¨ I think Lemon Brown is explaining what happened to him

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