The Treasure Of Lemon Brown Courage Quotes

Keaton Troyer

Ms. Wolter

Period #5

3/20/23

Walter Dean Mayers once said, “Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be" Through the exploration of this unit, many characters have shown courage. More specifically, ¨The Treasure of Lemon Brown¨, ¨The Friday Everything Changed¨ written by Anne Hart, and Martin Luther King best exemplify the quote by Tony Dungy.

The story ¨The Treasure of Lemon Brown¨ helps understand and connect to the quote because to protect your treasure you must be always ready. In the story the author states ¨but not before Greg saw him hurl his body down the stairs at the men who had come to take his treasure. ¨ This helps understand the quote

All the girls conjoined to fight back as it states ¨Instead of just standing back and watching Alma get beaten up, as we usually did when the boys were after someone, the girls rushed right in to try and help her. ¨ This makes sense because the boys always got what they wanted, they got to be the only people to hit during the games and they were the only ones to be able to carry the water buckets. So, that is why it was important when the girls stood up for themselves. The teacher says to all the students ¨ “Next week,” said Miss Ralston, closing the school register, tidying her books, “next week Alma Niles and Joyce Shipley will go for the water.” This was important because after the girls stood up for themselves to make a change, they finally got the results they wanted, which is what the quote says. This means that they quote and this story line up because when you want something, and you keep working for it then you can achieve

He was an activist that made a significant impact on the world and especially America because he fought for his cause when segregation was an important thing in the US. A big time that he stood up for his and a lot of colored people's rights was at the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 and this was an important protest because it was a bunch of people fighting for the right to vote. Also, Martin Luther King got shot on April 4, 1968, in a hotel at 6:05 when he was standing outside on the balcony of his hotel room. James Earl Ray was the guy that shot him, and he did it because he thought that the colored should not have any rights and he did not like that he was making change in the US. Martin Luther King supports this quote because he fought for years and years and he finally got what he was working for. Even though he got killed he still left an enormous impact on the world and change millions of people's