The Treasure Of Lemon Brown

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts,” Patrick Rothfuss. Authors use many ways to develop the setting. Descriptive language is like describing things instead of phrases like ,”a house.” You could say a dirty and tired house. . In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and the story “Lemon Tree Billiards House” by Cedric Yamanaka, the authors use Descriptive language to develop the setting.
In the story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean the author uses Descriptive language to develop the settings. “The dark sky, filled with angry, swirling clouds. . .” This quote is establishing the setting as dark, it shows us Greg’s mood and point of view of the situation. In the quote a character was describing the sky. “Greg had sat in the small, pale green kitchen . . .” This describes the setting the character was in. The author was using multiple adjectives to describe the kitchen as maybe a not so new kitchen. “His father’s brows knitted over deep brown eyes.” People's eyebrows don't really knit, the author uses verbs to show the father’s anger or frustration. The author of this book

“He had dark glasses and wore a suit”. In the story this is how the character described how he saw another character.“Thrusting his cue stick like a samurai spearing an opponent”. Portraying how hard the person hit the balls using his cue stick. This could imitate that the character is mad or frustrated. “The building is old and the pool hall isn't very large just nine tables and a ceiling fan and a soda machine”. This quote is describing the setting. It can tell us that the building is most likely older and not very new. In both of the stories the authors use multiple techniques to develop the