Figurative Language In 'Treasure Of Lemon Brown And Two Kinds'

Analysis of Figurative Language in Two Short Stories

You tell your friend they’re like a giant, and that the clouds need to jump out of his way. You used figurative language to joke with your friend, which is also used by professional writers to develop specific elements in a story. In The “Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, and in “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the authors use figurative language to help develop scene and character. In the story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” the author Walter Dean Myers uses figurative language to develop scene. The first example is, “The dark sky, filled with anger, swirling clouds…” This quote explains the stormy sky, possibly being used to develop an eerie setting. Foul weather is associated

This quote, “as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless…,” is the first piece of evidence. This is comparing the mother of Amy’s piano teacher to a leaf, showing how she isn’t in good health, and almost looks dead. We now know more about her. “I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with holy indignity,” is the next example. Amy imagines herself as a perfect being, since she could be anything in America. The reader learns she believes she can be anything at first, even though she realizes later she was wrong. The final quote of evidence is, “I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtain, waiting to hear the music that would send me floating on my tiptoes... I was Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.” This is saying Amy is multiple people through two metaphors, showing how she could be anything in America, and she thought she was everyone. The author Amy Tan used different types of figurative language to develop character. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and in “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan figurative language plays a huge role in character and scene development. The previous text isn’t even half of the figurative language elements used in the two short stories. The use of this narrative element was executed masterfully . In conclusion, figurative