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The Theme Of The Treasure Of Lemon Brown Dialogue
Can you imagine a world without taking? How would we communicate? Dialogue is very important in the real world as well as in a story. Dialogue in a story can tell you many details and important things you may need to understand a story. This is shown in the stories, “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and The House of The Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, where the authors use dialogue to develop characters and setting and to further the plot.

In the story, “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” the author, Walter Dean Myers, uses dialogue to develop characters and further plot. This is reflected when Greg Ridley’s father told him, “I had to leave school when I was 13.” This gives the idea that Greg, the main character, did not grow


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