Lemon Brown Passage Analysis

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Treasure is one of the most important things to someone. One of the things that the passage ¨Treasure of Lemon Brown¨ talks about the treasure that Lemon Brown has of his son and his career. The main idea of this essay is about me supporting my claim that treasure is personal. Greg is a young boy who wants to play basketball for the Scorpions, but he has a bad grade in math and cannot do it. Lemon Brown used to be a famous person, but now he is a homeless man who has rags on his leg and he lives in the tenement by himself. There was three thugs that wanted to take Lemon Brown´s treasure, and they thought it was something like gold or money and stuff like that. When it started thundering while Greg was in the tenement, it seemed like something

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