The theme of The Treasure of Lemon Brown is no matter how poor you are, no matter who you are, that you have something that you think is important, something you would risk your life for, a treasure. Lemon Brown’s treasure is an old harmonica. To you and I, this may not seem like anything special, but to Lemon Brown, this is the most precious thing in the world. This seemingly worthless harmonica is important to him because he gave it to his son, who passed away when he was in the army. While he was in the army he sadly died. Lemon Brown received a letter saying that he died, along with a few things his son had with him. One of the items he had was the old harmonica Lemon Brown gave him. Lemon Brown risked his life for that harmonica
