The Treasure Of Lemon Brown By Walter Dean Myers

The short story, “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, the author proves that the value of some items is often highly personal and cannot be easily understood by others when Lemon Brown tells Greg about his treasure, when Lemon Brown tells Greg about his son, and when Greg’s father lectures him about hard work. The idea that the value of some items aren’t easily understood is shown when Lemon Brown, a homeless man, tells Greg he has a treasure. Greg can’t quite wrap his head around the idea that he could have one. He says, “They were talking about treasures. Do you really have a treasure” (185)? Greg doesn’t understand how a poor man with no home, who scavenges and scrounges for clothes, could even possibly have anything of any