Compare And Contrast The Treasure Of Lemon Brown And The Contender

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“The setting needs to become a character in your story.” A setting is a type of place or surrounding and a character is a individual and what they are saying, feeling, doing, and what their reactions are. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and The Contender by Robert Lipsyte, the authors both use snapshots of setting and characters to tell the reader what the characters are doing and how they’re feeling.
The treasure of lemon by Walter Dean Myers will help people understand the story more with snapshot. “Greg had sat in a small, pale green kitchen. ”That tells you that greg is in Lemon Brown's house hiding from those thugs that’s trying to get Lemon Brown's treasure. “Greg reached the house just as another flash

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