Similarities Between The Pearl And The Treasure Of Lemon Brown

Living in the tall skyscrapers and smoggy air of Harlem is very different than living in a small town with barns and grassy fields. You will see how living in Harlem effects parenting, compared to the parenting in a normal neighborhood. In this essay on The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers, the differences in parenting style, discipline of grades, and activeness of fathers between Greg’s father and my father are made clear.

The story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” is a story that tells the tale of how Greg Ridley is having a bad day. His grades are low, and he is going to be kicked off the basketball team by his dad because of his latest math grade. Things start to turn when Greg stumbles upon the abandoned tenement that Old Man Lemon Brown lives in. In there, he learns an important lesson that will change him forever. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” the author, Walter Dean Myers, expresses the theme that everyone has their niche, or how Lemon Brown calls it, a ‘Treasure’ and the lesson to not judge a book by it’s cover. This theme connects to main character Greg Ridley, who is having trouble with

Randy Wilkerson, a young boy, walked the cold streets of New York on a school night after dinner. He stumbled upon an old woman with a beautiful old ring. After time went on, the old woman told Randy the back story of just how significant that ring was to her and her life. Randy, a lot like Greg Ridley, understood the importance of his life after hearing a back story from Lemon Brown’s perspective. In the story “Treasure of Lemon Brown” Walter Dean Myers, the author, establishes the theme by showing readers that what's important to someone, isn't something that has to do with money.

Have you ever wondered what makes one story more interesting than another? In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” the author, Walter Dean Myers, used narrative elements to create an interesting story for his readers. At the beginning of “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” Walter Dean Myers made Greg a depressed character. He was depressed because his dad wouldn’t let him play with the Community Center basketball team due to his poor grades. Greg walked around town depressed, and met a man named Lemon Brown who had gone through good and bad times.

In the story "The Treasure of Lemon Brown", Greg Ridley meets Lemon Brown (a.k.a. Sugar Lemon Brown). During his time with Lemon Brown, Greg learns an important lesson from Lemon Brown's life that changes his point of view of family.

Have you ever not unsure why your Mom or Dad was punishing you. Then you possibly have something in common with the main character Greg Ridley. Greg is the main character in ”The Treasure Of Lemon Brown” written by Walter Dean Myers.

“The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.” Descriptive adjectives help a reader picture the setting in their mind and also understand the mood in the story. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen, the authors use descriptive adjectives to develop the setting and mood.

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”- Steve jobs. The quote shows a similarity in the book “Two Kinds” and “The Treasure Of Lemon Brown” because the treasure of lemon brown, greg wants to do something that the father doesn't want him to do. From the book Two Kinds it shows that the girl's mother wants to be in america because that's where her dreams are. In these stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan the authors uses figurative language to develop the mood of the stories.

In the realistic fiction story, "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Myers, Greg Ridley a fourteen-year-old boy, starts off by getting a lecture from his dad, about his poor grades in math. Greg is upset and he walks away from his house to get some alone time. As Greg is walking, a rainstorm strikes. While he is trying to find shelter, he comes upon an abandoned apartment complex. As Greg walks in he finds out that he isn't the only one in the apartment, an old man named Lemon Brown is also there. Lemon is there for a different reason though. He is trying to hide his treasure, an old harmonica, from the neighborhood thugs. The thugs weren't successful in getting Lemon's treasure. Greg returns home with a valuable lesson learned, that he should value things in life. Greg changes from the beginning of the story to the end of the story. At the beginning, Greg was careless about his grades in math. Next, he was curious when looking for a place to hide from the rain. Lastly, he ends the story off by being a caring person when he continuously asked Lemon Brown if he was okay. Greg Ridley was a dynamic character who changed from careless, to curious, to caring, after his encounters with Lemon Brown.

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Why does this title have a peculiar title to it and what is it about? The short story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” by Walter Dean Myers, is about a young boy named Greg Ridley who really struggles with school. At the time he was fourteen and failed his math class. His father would always give him lectures about how failing in school is not okay and in turn isn't aloud to play basketball. One day he got so mad that he ran away and ended up in some old run-down building with graffiti all over it. Greg has four big coming of age moments all throughout this story. Coming of age moments are big moments that happen in life. His first big moments is failing his first math class.

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At the beginning of the story they both felt content and happy as show in this quote “Sometimes it rose to an aching chord that caught the throat, saying this is safety, this is warmth, this is the Whole.”. They did not even speak because their understanding was so great. But after Kino found the pearl his relationship steadily deteriorates as shown in this quote “"Kino," she said huskily, "I am afraid. A man can be killed. Let us throw the pearl back into the sea." "Hush," he said fiercely. "I am a man. Hush.”. That shows that as time goes by Kino is acting ruder and harshly to Juana all because of the greed the pearl caused. Another example is "This thing is evil," she cried harshly. "This pearl is like a sin! It will destroy us," and her voice rose shrilly. "Throw it away, Kino. Let us break it between stones. Let us bury it and forget the place. Let us throw it back into the sea. It has brought evil. Kino, my husband, it will destroy us." And in the firelight her lips and her eyes were alive with her fear. But Kino's face was set, and his mind and his will were set” this quote shows that Juana is becoming increasingly fearful yet Kino is sure this is the way and is willing to do whatever is necessary to become wealthy. This causes a strain between their relation. Finally the worst thing Kino commits is the act of attacked Juana. He is described as a snake hissing at her and hitting her that makes her fall. He even continues to kick her after she has fallen and she accepts it and knows he may even murder her. This shows that Kino has broken all limits of humanity and is being consumed by

After traveling long and fighting against the whole world, first with his town filled with people trying to steal it, then fighting for the money, then against himself and finally against the trackers, he was left weak, and there was no more strength to fight anymore. “The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience” (Steinbeck 88). His struggles with the pearl have left him dehumanized and stripped of emotions because after so many battles with himself and others, it has ruined the pearl’s value by taking away the shine and leaving a dusty grey as all of his original plans of a wedding, new clothes and an education for Coyotito have turned into memories of traumatic moments. “And in the surface of the pearl, he saw Coyotito lying in the little cave with the top of his head shot away.” (Steinbeck 89). Family was the strongest part of his life because it was Kino’s only power throughout his life, which is why when he returns back to his village, people don’t recognize him as he walks through people unbothered by their staring eyes that glare right through the hollowed soul, making them feel scared. Whether Kino can’t feel anymore or chooses to disconnect himself from that battle is a mystery, but, he is still left as a dehumanized

He imagined a better life for his family. Despite everything that went wrong, despite people telling him to throw the pearl away, Kino continued to believe in the value and importance of the pearl. Early on Juana tried to convince Kino to get rid of the pearl, “‘This pearl is a sin! It will destroy us,’ and her voice rose shrilly ‘ throw it away.’”(John Steinbeck 38). Kino would have ordinarily taken into consideration his wife’s concerns and this was out of character. While under the spell of the pearl, It didn’t matter to him that Juana had his best interest in mind when she advised him to get rid of the pearl. Even after Kino was attacked, he was unwavering in his conviction in the value of the pearl, “but Kino’s face was set, and his will was set” Kino was given many chances to throw away the pearl, but yet he was stubborn and continued to believe in the pearl even though his world was falling apart and even though he could lose