Decision; the act or process of deciding. People all over the world make decisions every day. In chapter three of “The Help” by Katheryn Stockett, Celia makes a decision on when she is going to tell Johnny about Minny, and in “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, Lemon Brown makes a decision to show his treasure to Greg. In “The Help” Celia makes the decision on when she is going to tell Johnny about Minny. Celia doesn’t know how to cook or clean, so she decides to hire a maid. Celia wants her husband, Johnny, to think that she can do all the cooking and cleaning, so she decides not to tell him until after she learns. Minny told Celia to tell Johnny about her earlier than Celia had wanted to. “I was thinking more like…four.” “You ain’t gone tell him till 1963? No ma’am before Christmas.” “Alright. But right before.” Celia was going to wait to tell Johnny about Minny until the next year, but Minny wanted her to tell him sooner, so she made the decision to tell him sooner. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” Lemon Brown made the decision to show his treasure to Greg. At first Lemon didn’t want to show his treasure to Greg beause he thought he was “one of them bad boys” trying to find and steal his treasure, but then after a while he decided to show his treasure to Greg. Lemon asks Greg if he wants to see his treasure. “What I tell you? Didn’t I tell you every man got a treasure? You want to see mine?” “If you want to show it to me.” Lemon had decided to show his treasure to Greg after some kids tried to steal it. Celia and Lemon Brown both had made decisions. Celia’s decision was her decision on when she was going to tell Johnny about Minny. Lemon’s decision was his decision to show his treasure to Greg. Celia decided to tell Johnny about Minny earlier than she had wanted to because of Minny said. Lemon had decided to show his treasure to Greg. In chapter three of “The Help” Celia changed because at the beginning she was unsure about hiring a maid because she thought it was going to be too much work, but by the end she had hired Minny as her maid, and was learning how to cook. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” Lemon Brown changed because at the beginning he didn’t want to shoe his treasure to Greg, but by the end he had shown Greg his treasure and explained why it was special to him.