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While my dad was in Texas, I was home alone is the same house my dad grew up in. My dad had told me about these people that have been trying to buy this house from him and to not let anybody take it from us. After a week went by, These people came to the house and tried to buy it from me. I said no but they wouldn't go away and kept asking me if they needed to raise the price. I told them good day and slammed the door in their face. The next day, a car pulled up and a man got out with a pen and a piece of paper. I knew that they were going to try and buy the house so I called my dad and told him what was going on. Luckily, my dad was already on his way home and right as the man barged into the house and threw me onto the ground, my dad came in and threatened them that he was going to call the cops. The people left and after everything was over, I trusted my dad even more. This story is like the treasure of Lemon Brown because in both stories, the person that is protecting something valuable to them ,also protects the people that helped them protect it as well. The …show more content…
author creates the theme of when in a crisis, people that are protecting valuable treasures, they also protect the people that are trying to help them. Lemon Brown and Greg formed a good relationship with each other because of their actions toward one another and watching one's back. After Brown figures out that Greg doesn’t want to steal his treasure, Lemon Brown doesn’t think of him as an enemy, he thinks of him as a friend when Greg said smiling,“I’m not looking for your treasure, If you have one.”When greg says this to Lemon Brown, Lemon doesn’t need to protect himself from Greg. He can trust Greg that he won’t stab him in the back and try and take what Lemon calls his treasures. Along with the characters actions, their thoughts also show the theme. While Greg pondered on either studying his math book or not, he walked down the sidewalk and saw a“old tenement that had been abandoned for some months...Greg had noticed that the door, once boarded over, had been slightly ajar.” Greg had to decide either to do what he is told or not obey his father and do his own thing. Greg made the decision he made because he thought that he could to other things outside school then play basketball. After, Greg had crossed the street and reached the house“another flash of lightening changed the night to day for an instant, then returned the graffiti-scarred building to the grim shadows.” When the lighting filled the sky with light, the flash of lighting made the sky bright, almost like Greg had a good feeling or idea about going into the old worn down building. The flash of lighting also put a scary and fearful tone on the building when Greg looked at it. The actions and thoughts of Greg and Lemon Brown all combine together to make them have a good relationship with each other.
While the street thugs were entering the building, and looking for Lemon Brown, he “squeezed Greg’s hand in his own hard, gnarled fist.” If Greg and Brown didn’t have such a good relationship, Greg wouldn’t of let Lemon Brown grab his fist and take him away from the thugs. If Greg hadn’t known that Lemon Brown was living there and the thugs came, then Greg wouldn’t of left and tried to run away from them. Since Greg didn’t know what the thugs were doing and Lemon did, he “found himself following Lemon Brown into the hallway and up the darkened stairs.“ Greg followed Lemon Brown up the stairs because he trusted him that he wouldn’t hurt him. Although Lemon and Greg had a good relationship from the start, when Greg followed him, it told him that Greg trusted him with his
life. In conclusion, the theme of when in a crisis, people that are protecting valuable treasures, also protect the people that are trying to help them, is proved by the actions, thoughts, and relationships of the two main characters throughout the story “Treasure Of Lemon Brown.” The movie “National Treasure” has the same theme as “The Treasure Of Lemon Brown” because in both stories, somebody is trying to protect something he personally values and both characters also protect the ones that help them protect their treasure.
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
In the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Wolff the two characters Jolly and Lavaughn are opposites. Jolly is a seventeen year old mother with two children and absent fathers.While Lavaughn is a fourteen year old girl with plans for her future. Throughout the book the two go through problems but find a way to get through them when they realize that they have to make the best of it. By the end of the book Lavaughn and Jolly have grown to be different people based upon the problems that life has given them.
Is a book about exactly what the e title says, escaping Mr. Lemoncello’s library? In the book, Kyle, the main character, gets chosen to stay overnight in a new library after sending in an essay as to why he should be picked. When he goes in, though h, not everything is as it seems. Even though his chances of getting picked where low, the hard part isn’t getting in, it’s getting out. The library was made by Mr. Lemoncello, the famous game designer. He creates all kinds of wacky games, and his Libra rye will be no different. The 12 student’s chi open to stay overnight find many things. Games, books, a food area, almost anything. Then, they go to sleep. When they wake up, they all go to the door so that they
“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 the Play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry there are two main character’s that many people debate upon to be the protagonist of the play. Those two characters are Mama and Walter. The story is about an African American family living in Chicago in the 1950’s. During this time period race was a large issue in that area. The family consists of three generations, Mama being the mother and grandmother has a lot of responsibilities as what I see her to be as the families anchor. The next generation is Walter his wife Ruth and his sister Beneatha. Walter and Ruth have a song Travis who is ten years old at the time of this play. Mama is the moral supporter of the family and believes that everything has a purpose and that things should be done by design. One of the main events in this play is the life insurance settlement check for ten thousand dollars that Mama receives. This being a large amount of money during that time period creates many arguments between the families about what to do with the money. Walter is the type of guy that believes his family shouldn’t settle like everyone else and believes that they shouldn’t be held back just because they are an African American family living in what is referred to as a “white man’s world”. I believe that Walter is the protagonist of the play for two main reasons, he isn’t a selfish man, he doesn’t feel the family should be limited because they are African American and he has distinct options or plans for the future of his family.
Growing up with a father who blamed me for the death of his wife which of course broke through any happiness, care or love he felt for me his own son. My house was always filled with dark gloomy colors and we never really had guests over at all. My father was a mystery most people but in his job he had power over people because they were frightened by his just by his presence. It was a very rare pleasure filled with fright when we spoke and I can only think of one time where I got a hint of positive feeling from him. It was a dark, rainy gloomy day and the house never held a promise for the future so I was constantly bored and decided to read some old books from my father’s dusty library. There I sat with a book in hand picking up any knowledge that I possibly could and he walked in and said to me “Montressor, you impress me with act of trying to do something useful”, I replied to him with the only thing I could ever say to him, yes sir. I can only remember the constant hate I would receive from him and it made me think that I would never please
In many cases, sin becomes guilt in a matter of seconds, though the repercussions of that sin may never end. In the short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the devil haunts one man with his startling words, and those words leave the young man unable to be himself for the rest of his life. Goodman Brown portrays as the average Puritan with an unknown want to speak with the devil. It is because of the simple walk he takes into the woods with a new companion that enlightens him of the problems in his community. The problem being that he is not the only one to travel with the companion, and that means that nothing is just as he thought. Goodman Brown proves that it is through his own sin and guilt that he is able to see the sin within his community, past and present.
Don Lemon is an eminent and award winning journalist and television news anchor of U.S. His full name is Don Carlton Lemon. He currently serves as the host of the American evening newscast and overnight newscast show named CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. He achieved fame by hosting this CNN Newsroom program. In his lucrative career, he has been associated with several popular channels such as MSNBC and NBC. Apart from his career as a journalist and anchor, he has also written an autobiography named Transparent. He was honored as one of the 150 most influential African Americans.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” captivates the reader through a glimpse of the Puritan church. The story also shows the struggle of good versus evil in the main character Goodman Brown. The role of the Puritan church is crucial in shaping Goodman Brown’s personality and helping the reader understand why he was reluctant to continue his journey.
My mother was kind and gentle, but my father was always angry and would lash out at my siblings, my mother, and me. As a child I was always in fear of what he might do. My mother would try to confert us, but it never worked. Night after night he would come in from the barn and hit us. Fear had taken over my childhood, I would never want anyone to go through the same thing as me. Even though it was extremely traumatic it prepared me for horrors of war.
Young Goodman Brown is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story is full of confusions in which the reader has difficulty to understand what exactly is going on in the story and with the character. But the different parts that compose this story connect the confusing parts to make a complete story. The author vividly introduces symbols and themes throughout the story as well as an open interpretation about the true identity of the fellow traveler character.
A few months later my dad received a call saying that my Grandma was in the hospital. She had been forgetting to take her medicine and she had attacked my Grandpa. She did not hurt him though. I never thought that, it would ever happen. We went to visit her a couple weeks later. She was so embarrassed that she was in the hospital for that. Finally, after about a month, she came home happier than ever.
One Halloween night it was freezing and rainy. There was a little boy named Jackson and he sat on the side of the road on halloween so my friends and I told him he could come with us so he woulden't be by himself. he came along and he was talking about how he didn't have a mom or dad. I asked him how come and he woulden't tell me he would just tell me he had to stay close to someone so they dont get him. I asked him why and what was wrong because he started to scream and cry. so i took him to my house for a couple minuts so he could calm down but he just keept saying please dont let them get me please. I asked who they where he didn't answer but he did say they killed his mom and dad.
Under the guise of "heading out to do some yard work," my father took on the dubious and dangerous task of attempting to rid his treasured flowering crab tree of a hornet's nest, reported by my mother to be the size of a large, ripe watermelon. Armed with the starter for the barbeque, the garden hose and a rake, Dad approached the tree and offending nest with the determination of a front line soldier ordered to advance on the enemy line. His plan was to set the nest on fire (yes, while still attached to the tree) and then douse the ensuing inferno with the garden hose. Coming upon the nest, Dad stealthily lit the barbeque starter under the huge hornet hive and stepped back as it became engulfed in flames. With his trusty garden hose in hand, he immediately began his attempt to extinguish the flames before the tree, the house, the whole neighborhood caught on fire.
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, he would put in long hard hours, to support his family. His mother was forced to work during World War II, she worked at a mill doing riveting work, later she worked at Bell Telephone. They were a very loving family, but work came first, this left very little time for their kids. My grandfather being the oldest son, was expected to help out more, one time when he was about twelve years old, his mom told him “Bobby, go to the store, and get me some bread” he said “OK.” Even though he did not want to go get it, he did it anyway, but as he went to get the bread, he became angry that he had to go get it, so when he got back to the house he had thrown the bread onto the roof of the house. This story has great meaning to me, because