Lemon Brown’s story in “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers teaches readers that everyone has something important that they care about. In this short story, Greg Ridley goes into an abandoned building so he could be alone and think after his father screamed at him. He meets Lemon Brown who stays in this abandoned building every night to sleep. Lemon brown teaches Greg many important lessons throughout the story. “Every man got a treasure, you don't know that you must be a fool,” Lemon Brown tells Greg. Mr. Brown thinks that everyone has something or someone that they care about. He is trying to tell and help Greg realize that everyone, including himself, has something special and important that they care about. Lemon Brown wants to see a world where no one takes for granted the treasure that they have. Lemon Brown’s treasure, his memories and newspaper clippings, inspires him to be the wise person he has become. Many people, when they are hurt, cry or complain, but Sweet Lemon Brown has turned his frown upside down. He says, “When you get as old as me, all you say when something hurts is ‘Howdy, Mr. Pain, sees you back again.’ Then when Mr. Pain see he can't worry …show more content…
He ¨used to travel around and make money to feed [his] wife and Jessie.¨ He was a blues singer who ¨sang the blues so sweet that it I sang at a funeral, the dead would commence to rocking with the beat.¨ He loved his wife and kid, and his career, but then his wife died, and Jessie went to live with his aunt. When his son, Jesse, grew up and choose to go fight in war, Lemon Brown continued his blues singing career being one of the best singers. Then one day, he received a letter telling him that Jesse was killed in war, and this made Mr.Brown sad. Lemon Brown received the newspaper clippings that Jesse kept with him while he was fighting in war. These little clippings later became Mr.Brown's most prized possession, his
This book starts from a basic backstory, and then piecemeal goes and becomes a very interesting story that you can’t put down. The first part of the book talks about the main character, Kyle Keely. In his school, there was a competition on who would write a better essay about public libraries. Kyle didn’t know about this until the last minute. He quickly wrote his essay on the way to school and turned it in. Kyle was one of the twelve people who won! Since he won, he, along with eleven other children, would get to see the new public library that was made by Mr. Lemoncello and his assistant Dr. Zinchenko. When the winners arrived at the library, they were immediately greeted by Dr. Zinchenko. They were then greeted with their first challenge. After the first challenge was over, they had a new task at
“Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of you character.” Writers use stylistic techniques to help the story really be visualized by the read. In “The Treasure Of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers the author uses descriptive adjectives and purposeful word choice to develop characters and mood.
When Greg’s principal home saying that he was most likely to not pass math is father had a talk with him, “ Greg sat in the small, pale green kitchen listening, knowing the lecture would end with his father saying he couldn’t play ball with the Scorpions.” This made Greg very sad causing him to go for a walk when he broke into the house where he met Lemond Brown and he encountered some new things such as the neighborhood thugs. “They banged around noisily, calling for the rag man. “We heard you talking about your treasure.” The voice was slurred. “We just want to see it, that’s all.” “You sure he’s here?” One voice seemed to come from the room with the sofa. “Yeah, he stays here every night.” “There’s another room over there; I’m going to take a look. You got that flashlight?” “Yeah, here, take the pipe too.” Greg opened his mouth to quiet the sound of his breath as he sucked it in uneasily. A beam of light hit the wall a few feet opposite him, then went out.” Him and Lemon Brown had to figure out a way to get away from the thugs. Equally important, how Greg affected others. When the thugs were in Lemon Brown’s house Greg distracted one of them giving Lemon Brown anof time to tackle one of them, “As Greg howled, the light moved away from Lemon Brown, but not before Greg saw him hurl his body down the stairs at the men who had come to take his treasure. There was a crashing noise, and then footsteps....” At this moment
“Figurative language adds pizzazz. It raises work above the plain, the dull, the ordinary.” Authors use figurative language in their writing in many ways. Some authors, like Walter Dean Myers, the author of The Treasure of Lemon Brown can develop the mood and setting through descriptive adjectives and figurative language.
In James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues,” an unnamed narrator attempts to understand his brother’s way of life. The two men experience the suffering that goes along with living in the projects of Harlem, New York. After a conversation with his mother, the narrator promises he will take care of his brother, Sonny. The story in and of itself is a constant struggle between the narrator trying to keep the promise to his mother and trying to understand Sonny’s life choices. When Sonny is arrested for using a dealing heroin, one of his friends gave the narrator full disclosure when he tells him Sonny’s life has and always will be difficult. The narrator writes to Sonny on jail after he experiences grief. Sonny writes back, trying to describe how his choices have led him to this point in life. At the end of the story, the two brothers watch a street revival. Sonny relates the revivalist’s voice to how heroin feels and explains his drug addiction and suffering. Following that, Sonny invites the narrator to watch him play. The narrator hears Sonny’s struggles within the music and understands why music is life or death for Sonny. The ability to cope with suffering is explored. The short story Baldwin’s
Goldstein (2008) claims the name Torchy was probably created after her sister’s torch songs and Brown was her mother’s maiden name. Torchy Brown in Dixie in Harlem is about a teenage Black from Mississippi visiting her family in New York inspired by the dream of performing at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Ormes developed this teenage character as a teenage girl dreaming of the Northern. Torchy is a light-skin country girl who lives on a farm raised by her aunt and uncle. She is able articulate and bargain with a male farmer over the price of melons. Eventually, she sells her farm animals to save money to travel to New York
Sal and his eclectic crew of friends decide that if they really do want more out of life, and they truly want answers to their questions, a journey is necessary. They go on an excursion across America looking for something more significant than what society had thrust upon them. This merry band is tired of society's version of "normal." They knew they didn't fit into the social order as it was. So they went in search of their own "norms", their own "American dream", and their own place in the world. Sal and his friends went in search of "IT."
George was a very smart and able man who had taken responsibility of a mentally-challenged man named Lennie. George could have found a good steady job for which he could have stayed at and made good money, but when he went to work with Lennie, Lennie made a mistake that got both of them in trouble. George was a very good person for taking care of Lennie. Lennie was very dumb, but he always remembered the dream he and George shared. The main dream that George possessed was to be happy, and he realized that even though taking care of Lennie was hard work at times, he was happiest with Lennie. George would repeat their dream to Lennie. The nicest thing George ever did for Lennie was giving him hope, and that’s what mentioning the dream farm did. Lennie always wanted to “live of the fatta land” (81), and “have rabbits, and puppies, go on George.” George saved a man’s life, and in return he got nothing. George’s d...
Goodman Brown does not emerge from the forest tougher or braver but hateful and spiteful because he becomes enlightened to the ways of world. He comes to terms with the reality tha...
As a soldier, he cannot provide a better shelter for his younger brother when their parents die; he cannot send his brother away from Harlem and its drug circle. The concern on financial difficulties also guides the narrator in making choices throughout his life. I believe the narrator does not have the luxury to do what he may want to do; instead, his priority in career choice will adhere to the one which guarantees an economically secured and stable life. In spite of supporting his brother’s love and determination for jazz music, the narrator applies the same logic of making a living job towards Sonny; which in turn, creates a huge disagreement.
Money, money, money, and the love of money is the root of all evil. Money, has led the characters of Treasure Island to kill, lie, cheat, and put themselves in great peril to acquire it. The Squire Trelawney, the good Doctor, and Jim really have no cause to go in the search of the fortune that they did not earn or place where it rest. Wealth, whether found, earned, or inherited does not automatically speak well of the owner. The test of one’s character should be more than economical success.
In “Sonny’s Blues,” Baldwin described how Sonny used music to get rid of the troubles he had in his life. Sonny was born in Harlem, New York where majority of the people were African Americans. The African Americans adopted various ways to cope with the difficulties, they were facing in the Harlem before the Civil Rights Movement. Sonny was dejected by the strain of being black, poor, and captured within the boundaries of his community. He attempted to oppose the customs by moving away from Harlem, and started his career as a musician. He wanted to become a jazz musician, but somehow, he was addicted to heroin. Many people were addicted to drugs in the Harlem at that time to escape the reality. Sonny was arrested for using and selling drugs. When he was released from jail, he could have gone through the same routine of drugs addiction, just like he had been before being arrested. He was a drug addict and it was very hard for him to cut off contact with drugs. However, Instead of using drugs again, Sonny choose to play jazz music and tried to forget his worries. He had been practicing and playing music for a long time. After living with his brother for a few weeks, Sonny started to turn his life around. Sonny took his b...
Langston Hughes, born in February 1st, 1902, grew up in segregated America. His own ancestry was as mixed as that described in the poem. Both his great-grandmothers were enslaved African Americans and both his grandparents were white slave owners. Both of Hughes’ parents were of mixed race descent. Many of his family members were key figures in the elevation of blacks in society, and they impressed upon him the nobility of black people. Hughes had a rootless and often lonely upbringing, moving back and forth between family members’ homes. Hughes was a prominent leader of the Harlem Renaissance and referred to it as the period when “the negro was in vogue”.
... the miserable life that African Americans had to withstand at the time. From the narrator’s life in Harlem that he loathed, to the drug problems and apprehensions that Sonny was suffering from, to the death of his own daughter Grace, each of these instances serve to show the wretchedness that the narrator and his family had to undergo. The story in relation to Baldwin possibly leads to the conclusion that he was trying to relate this to his own life. At the time before he moved away, he had tried to make a success of his writing career but to no avail. However, the reader can only be left with many more questions as to how Sonny and the narrator were able to overcome these miseries and whether they concluded in the same manner in the life of Baldwin.
People can wear pain on the outside like a mask, hiding them from the world, but it also can hide deep within them waiting to be freed by some emotional circumstance. Oddly enough, pain is one on the most feared apprehensions in the mind of humans, yet in some situations, is the most rejoiced. In this paper I will take a close look at pain, from it's true meaning to real life occurrences in which pain is a reality.We all know what pain feels like, for everyone has experienced it at one time in their lives. There are two dimensions of pain; the physical and the emotional pain. Physical pain is a sensation of pure discomfort. For example, when you are walking through your house and stump your toe on a table leg, you don't just stand there and say, "That hurt." You yell loudly to the world (either nice or naughty) that you stumped your toe.