Poem Analysis: Lemon Brown

“I Didn't have nothing to give him except these things, that told him who I was, and what he come from. If you know your pappy did something you know you can do something to.” Greg a young boy gets upset with his father and sneaks out of the house and goes into a abandoned building to take shelter from the rain, and wanders around the building thinking, when he suddenly hears a voice threatening him. When the old man comes out from where he was hiding, Greg notices he has no weapon and relax’s and they get to talking. As there talking “Lemon Brown” sees danger. The author “Nalter Dean Myers,” portrays the theme that “something may mean nothing to you and seem like a piece of trash but means the world to someone else.” To begin with, Greg is a young boy who …show more content…
According to the text, Lemon Brown was always being harassed, as I said earlier in the text, Lemon Brown didn’t have any friends, but as he talked to Greg he seemed to trust him. Since Lemon Brown seemed to trust Greg, when he asked what happened to him he said, “Hard times, boy. Hard times always after a poor man. One day I got tired, sat down to rest a spell and felt a tap on my shoulder. Hard times caught up with me,” as they continued talking Greg got to know Lemon Brown and his life. Because Greg got to know Lemon Brown, Lemon Brown told Greg about his family. Turns out Lemon Brown had a wife and kid, he and his wife split and his son joined the military. This made Lemon Brown sad because he wanted to provide for his family but he had nothing to give them (his son) except some newspaper clippings and a harmonica, this was Lemon Brown’s precious treasure. Lemon Brown kept his treasure with him at all times “ The old man carefully took off the plastic and unfolded it. He revealed some yellowed newspaper clippings and a battered harmonica,” Lemon Brown kept his treasure there because nobody would assume it's there and so he would never lose