Lemon

Societyś message that men are tough pressures the characters in the things they carried to hide their actual feelings. Curt Lemon is one of the men stationed in Vietnam and one day the military sends a dentist to do quick repairs and all of the men are fine with it besides Curt. He is the type of person that hated the dentist and didn't want to get any work done. But when his name is called he goes into the tent and he sits on the desk and then he faints.. This then caused him to wake up the…

and the fictional short story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” written by Walter Dean Myers this is exactly what happens. In “the Pearl” Kino’s son Coyotito gets stung by a scorpion and they try to seek instead finding a beautiful pearl with bad luck and it brings greed to the once caring Kino causing him to kill 4 men trying to get the pearl and loses his son to one of the trackers, Only to throw the Pearl back into the ocean. In “the Treasure of Lemon Brown” Greg’s father won’t allow his son to…

thing that matters, but their opinions will probably change. In the story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, and The Pearl by John Steinbeck, the authors show us that just because somebody thinks something, it does not make it true. In The Pearl, the main character Kino finds a giant pearl and is consumed by wealth, but later learns that all he really needs is his family. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” a teenager named Greg is longing to play basketball, but can not; then he…

In life we are given lemons that we are expected to turn into lemonade, whether they be the pristine lemons of comfort and happiness, or the rotten lemons of poverty and hate, we determine our lemonade at the end. I was born with average lemons, being in a single parent household where adventures were always happening. When school started, I moved to my mother’s house where she raised us as a single mother. Life was good. Then in first grade, life handed me rotten lemons in the form of my…

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…

ever find it. This is somewhat similar to what happened in the short story, “The Treasure of Lemon Brown.” In this story, Greg gets in a fight with his dad and takes a little break to get some fresh air. He goes to an abandoned building and meets an old man named Lemon Brown. Later on, some thugs come to take some treasure that they heard Lemon Brown had. Once Greg and Lemon get rid of the thugs, Lemon shows Greg his treasure that he has been holding onto…

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composition of wheat flour and lemon balm. Data represented in figer (1) indicate to the chemical composition of wheat flour and lemon balm as raw materials in the formula of g /1oo g of dry weight basis. The lemon balm contains (17.10g, 16.11g and 50.56g) of protein, fiber and carbohydrates respectively. While the wheat flour as raw material contains (11.86g, 0.69g, and 75.69g) of protein, fiber and carbohydrates respectively. Assay of polyphenolic compounds of lemon balm leaves. Figer (2)…

discouraging, or frustrating. Additionally, Lemon Brown desperately protects his valuables and Greg by hurling “his body down the stairs at the men who [has] come to take his treasure” (Myers 4). As readers can realize, he acts out of the urge that unless he acted quickly, Lemon Brown’s treasures and the child he is fond of would be hurt or taken away from him. People will do anything they can do to defend their loved ones or their greatest values, like Lemon Brown, and it is in their human…

The way the setting is described in “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” creates a foreboding mood and reflects a character’s feelings through the mood by using vivid sensory details. The setting works to create a foreboding mood throughout “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by using vivid sensory details. An example of this is when the author says, “Greg had noticed that the door, once boarded over, had been slightly ajar . . . He reached the house just as another flash of lightning changed the night to…