The Treasure Of Lemon Brown Analysis

Money and riches or family and memories? You can only choose one. Which one would you pick? In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, Greg is mad at his dad because he won’t let Greg play basketball due to his failing math grade, so he goes to the old tenement building and meets Lemon Brown, an old homeless man, who is protecting his treasure from a group of thugs. After fighting them off, Lemon Brown shows Greg his treasure- a beaten up harmonica and some old newspaper clippings. He explained that his son died in the war and the military sent back what he was carrying at the time, which was these items. They represented the good ol’ days and his late son, which was more important to him than money. Although some items may not be worth anything to most, it is worth something to someone because of the good memories attached to the item.

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This was when he told Greg his son had died serving in the war and this was what he was carrying with him, so it must have meant something to his son, which meant something to Lemon Brown. They also represented the great times he had a long time ago (the papers were dated 50 years back) as a blues singer and the father of a nice family, until it all fell apart, and this was all he had left. “ ‘What else a man got ‘cepting what he can pass onto his son, or his daughter, if she be his oldest?’ ” This symbolizes that his family is very important to him because the things that he passed on to his child were the most important things to him, not whether they had monetary value, but the stories and good times that went along with the items. The treasures also show that he is very affectionate about them because he jumped off a flight of stairs to attack the thugs and protect his treasure. He put his health and life at risk for a battered harmonica and a