The Treasure By Lemo Lemon Brown Essay

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While lemon brown was talking nervously to Greg he notices that there are some guys standing outside the door and knocking on the door saying “Old man we know you are in there we can hear you”. Lemon quickly grabbed greg and ran up the stairs the thugs break open the door and walk in. Greg wonders what is all this junk and lemon brown says this is the treasure they are looking for. 99.2 percent of people are frightened when in crisis and are faced with tough decisions. In the story lemon brown greg wanted to get out of the blistering weather that was ahead of him but he runs into a dark house where he meets a stranger called lemon brown so Greg is wondering if the guy is living here. Walter dean myers proves the theme that when in a complex relationship can sometimes be hard to trust people. …show more content…
While lemon brown was attacked by thugs he shows the relationship between Greg he said to Greg “come here son help me hide my treasure”. While, in the scene Greg and Lemon brown were attacked by thugs Greg has to make a courageous decision to help out lemon brown even when he doesn’t want to so Greg whistles to get the thugs attention as they stop for a minute they explain where he hid the treasure and Greg says “what is the treasure is it money”. This means that Greg is trying to see what the treasure is. When hiding the treasure all things take a unexpected turn and they have this feeling that the thugs are gone. As they walked down the stairs they notices that some things were missing but everything is going to be okay. An example is in the story code of silence and how these three kids are attacked in a diner and they have to keep this code of silence and tell nobody about the

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