Constructed Response: “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers Prompt: Assign one character trait to Lemon Brown and support your characterization with three examples from the text. Question to answer: What kind of person is Lemon Brown? Your final Draft goes below: In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, Lemon Brown is brave.…
Tarek Elhossiny Lemon Brown and The Pearl Comparison Essay According to William Greider, “Everyone’s values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.” Values define individuals in life and in literature. Walter Dean Myer’s short story,” The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” explores the values of Greg Ridley, a fourteen-year-old boy who wants to play basketball but can’t because his math grade is low. While in John Steinbeck’s novel, The Pearl tells an old parable about Kino who finds a perfect pearl that soon corrupts him with greed.…
Do you really know what a treasure is? The book “Treasure of Lemon Brown” talks about a boy named Greg that meets this old man named Lemon Brown. Lemon Brown talks about his past and tells Greg about a treasure that he has. This treasure means a lot to him. A treasure doesn’t have to be gold, money, or jewelry.…
In literature, a common theme of character’s reactions to danger or tremendous stress is found. Often, a monumental change in character occurs. Two stories that are examples of this are “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” and “The Luck of Roaring Camp”. In both of these cases, the characters change to save another that they have grown to care about. A monumental change is apparent in the characters of the Kentuck from “The Luck of Roaring Camp”, who changed from wanting to get rid of the child to dying to save him, and Mother Shipton from “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”, who was a bitter woman who later starved herself to save Piney.…
My favorite story of this year was “The Treasure of Lemon Brown”. The reason why it was my favorite was because it shows us how something that costs nothing and looks bad could be so valuable to someone and how it means something important to one. The genre of this story is short story. The charters in the story are Lemon Brown, Greg, Greg’s dad, and the robbers that tried to steal Lemon Brown’s treasure. In the story the robber says “Where’s his gold?…
Shakespeare once said, “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” In the novel, “The Pearl”, Kino always expected something after he found “THE GREAT PEARL” he thought nothing could stop him from what he wanted and nothing could go wrong with his plans. When you think about what Shakespeare stated “expectation is the root of heartache” it brings to your mind that when you have high expectations for something it can go the opposite way than the way you want it to go. Every time that Kino had a plan he expected a lot from the outcome but in reality it just gave him heartache and troubles after he found his “GREAT PEARL”. This pearl he found brought him great troubles that you would never seem to believe could be real.…
“When your values are clear to you, making decisions become easier”- Roy Disney. Walter Dean Myers short story, “The treasure of Lemon Brown”, explores the values of Greg Ridley, a fourteen year old boy who wants to play basketball, but can’t play because of his low grade in math. On the other hand, in John Steinbeck’s novel, The Pearl , an uneducated man named Kino found a great pearl that corrupted his values with greed and destroyed his family. In both “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” and The Pearl, the main characters experience conflicts that change their values of what is important in life.…
A challenge is something that stands in your way; it is like a barrier. If you try hard enough, the barrier can be knocked down. Everyone faces challenges, but only the people who rise to them can come out victorious. Although challenges come both big and small, facing them is never easy. Some of them can be resolved by just putting in a little effort and determination.…
As seen throughout the play, new dreams emerged, and people often learn new values and morals. When dreams become deferred, lessons are learned and people get better. Families become closer and more caring, as they understand each other's problems. “Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody?”…
Every man has a treasure, what would you do to get yours? In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers the theme is that every man has a treasure. In the The short story The Pearl by John Steinbeck the theme is what’s important in life. In The Peal a poor Indian man named Kino found a pearl, that should solve all of his problems. Unfortunately he faces some problems among the way.…
The Great Gatsby and The Pearl, two great American novels, both depict men who struggle with ambition. Kino, a poor pearl-diver, stumbles upon a great fortune and quickly loses focus because of his greed. Jay Gatsby, an extraordinarily rich New Yorker, searches in vain for the one love that could fulfill all of his desires. One is from the slums of Mexico, the other from upper-class America. Both, however, exemplify human nature and the powerful force of greed.…
In the fictional short story entitled “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, Lemon Brown, one of the main characters, a forgotten, homeless, and lonely musician shares his past with Greg Ridley and teaches him to be thankful for all that he has. First of all, Lemon Brown tells Greg about his son Jesse and says, “I didn’t have nothing to give…that told him who I was and what he come from… [he] got killed in the war… Broke my heart, it truly did.” (page 13-14) This shows that although Lemon Brown barely met Greg, he is willing to open up and share his past sorrowful experiences.…
Beautiful, shiny, magical, it once was and malicious it now is. All that was wanted was hope to live, live in wealth. Letting go of all and then the anger comes. Around and around it follows, never leaving….it is greed. The pearl draws in hope and happiness, then breathes out anger and rage.…
Through the effective interpretation of these characters, both authors portray how the acceptance of change can foster an individual’s efforts…
"His body glided quietly across the room, noiselessly and smoothly. His hands were in front of him, palms down, and his eyes were on the scorpion. " This scene plays out on page 6 of John Steinbeck's The Pearl. The setting of John Steinbeck's The Pearl takes place in La Paz, Mexico.…