The Treasure of Lemon Brown

The treasure of lemon brown

"one man's trash is another man's treasure" is a common idiom that means anything can be a treasure to someone. In the same way, in the short story "the treasure of Lemon Brown", Lemon Brown's treasure was a few old newspaper clippings and a battered old harmonica. These may not look valuable to anyone else's eyes but Lemon brown's.

Treasures aren't always gold coins and jewels. The newspaper clippings that Lemon Brown treasured told of his performances at different theatres in the South and reivews of his shows more than 50 years ago. Lemon Brown treasured the successful blues singer and a harmonica player. In addition, he gave his son, Jesse, these newspaper clippings and the harmonica before he went to war. when he found out that Jesse had been killed in the war, and he had with him the harmonica nad clippings of newspaper, it became bonding love between a father and son.

"he reached the house just as another flash of lightning changed the night to day for an instant, then returned the graffiti-scarred building to the grim shadows." In this story, setting was very important. For example, if it wasn't in harlem and was in minnesota, it wouldn't have the same feeling. Harlem, is a ghetto, made the mood more mysterious. "An old table on its side against one wall, what looked like a pile of rags or a torn mattress in the corner, and a couch, with one leg broken, in front of the window." This gave a feeling of darkness and enhanced the mood of uncertainty.

Along with setting, character was also very important. Lemon Brown Was a Homeless guy wearing some rags, yet he had a treasure. Lemon Brown was also very brave, When some people came to steal his treasure; he threw himeslf at them to protect his treasure. He also didn't fear for his life when he was diverting them away from Greg.

In conclusion, Treasures aren't always gold coins and jewels, mood was very important, and even though his treasure wasn't worth very much to other people, it had a lot of sentimental value to Lemon Brown. Ge was very unique in his own way, and the moral to the story is even the smallest thing can make a difference.

My english teacher, gave me a D + ON THIS!!!! i worked for 3 hours straight trying to put this wonderful report down!! please comment below and tell me how you would grade it and why.

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