The Treasure of Lemon Brown – Bridging Text & Context

1. Read the following description and connect it to the story. Give information from the text to support your answer.
   The setting of “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” is in Harlem, a black neighborhood in New York City where Walter Dean Myers grew up in the 1940s. Myers had said, “as a black writer, I want to talk about my people.” Despite this, the characters he creates and the problems he talks about are interesting for everyone.

2. Walter Dean Myers once said: “Sometimes, something hurts you really bad and you get used to it, like being hurt becomes part of who you are.” How does this quotation connect to the story?

3. Read the following quotation, and explain how it connects to the story:
   “Reading has changed in my lifetime. When I was a child, my father could not read, but he was strong.  With poor reading skills you could still find employment; you could work in a factory. Today you can’t do that. Today reading is like air. You have to be able to read to find a job. You have to read more and more in your day-to-day life. “(Walter Dean Myers)