Case Study - No response from Monitor Twenty Three

It is as if Paul lives in the sun and knowledge of the world, baring that burden while others in society live in darkness with slight sliver of light from the moon believing they know the world to its full extent when in reality they are blind and in the dark. This affects Paul since he possess ideas from another point of view that others have no clue about. This is important because without the knowledge that Paul posses, he would be like his none the wiser parents, which would affect the story a great deal. For example, on page 152, Paul tells his friend, “Don’t do this. Don’t come in here with attitude.” Paul knows how to adapt to the places around him and knows that by accepting the facts and the brunt of the blow, they will accept him begin to

Paul escaped serious physical wounds; however, he is completely destroyed by the effects of the war. After being mercilessly attacked with gas, he sees the brutality and lack of concern for the soldiers’ lives. Although he is continuously pressured by authority figures to see the opposing fighter as the main enemy, Paul understands the problem goes beyond killing other men. The war tears Paul apart and leaves him scarred by the lack of

Unwanted How does it feel to be unwanted, even by your own dad? In the novel, Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, Paul Fisher is constantly feeling neglected by his father. As the book goes on, examples are clearly shown of how Mr. Fisher respects his older son, Erik, much more than he does Paul. Paul’s Dad’s choices made Paul feel unwanted and pushed him away from his family, friends, and soccer.

Paul and his platoon have been turned into machines due to the war, controlled by

How Forgetting Affect’s Paul On psychologytoday.com they say that selective memory, or dissociative amnesia, is “one of several dissociative disorders that mentally separate a person from some aspect of their self, following some sort of trauma or severe stress”. This is saying that selective memory is when someone experiences a traumatic event, so they will forget something, or everything, about that event because of the trauma. In the novel Tangerine, the main character Paul has the most obvious case of selective memory out of all the characters. This book is about a visually impaired boy named Paul who moved with his family to Tangerine, Florida and cannot remember how he damaged his eyesight.

He realizes just like his father and his mother he is using drug and alcohol to cope with his pain is slowly killing them. Paul still didn’t know if he wants to live or die so he flirts with the idea of death, but he stops himself at the last second.

At the beginning of the book, Paul is an outcast, “Hey, Eclipse Boy,” and is never noticed, except by a few people, “Unfortunately, nobody… paid much attention to me.” At first, Paul is a person no one really notices or cares about him, not even his own Dad. Almost Everyone is more focused on his evil older brother, Erik. Paul is also almost always cowardice, “I’m

Paul is a rising star on the sports field. He has been working exceedingly hard on and off the field to get to where he is today, the starting position. Some of his team mates,

Yet another example of the brutalization and dehumanization of the soldiers caused by the war occurs during Paul’s leave. On leave, Paul decides to visit his hometown. While there, he finds it difficult to discuss the war and his experiences with anyone. Furthermore, Paul struggles to fit in at home: “I breathe deeply and say over to myself:– ‘You are at home, you are at home.’ But a sense of strangeness will not leave me; I cannot feel at home amongst these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogany piano – but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a

the love and care he unknowingly needs. Paul takes on roles that disguise his own traits and turns him into what he believes to be a person nobody can say no to. When he takes on these roles, he

Paul's father had abused him emotionally, and probably physically, throughout Paul's life. He did so much to Paul's flagging self-image that he had to boast to others to make himself feel big, when he felt tiny inside. When he finally achieved that "bigness" that he always wanted, the glamour of "the good life," his father found him out and took that away from him, or rather, made Paul give it up. This made Paul feel even smaller and made him feel that he would be better off dead. So Paul decided to make his life "better off" and

This all started when paul became a Nazi. He did this to spite his father who was a strict man who thought what the Nazi's were doing was wrong.He taught what they were doing was wrong to,but he hated his father with a passion.He goes through the Nazi training and became a soldier under an unnecessarily strict commander like his

In Paul's true reality he has a lack of interest in school. His disinterest in school stems from the alienation and isolation he has in

In Paul’s true reality he has a lack of interest in school. His disinterest in school stems

Paul sounds as though he is suffering from burnout. Burnout is a syndrome of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion coupled with feelings of low self-esteem or low self-efficacy (Greenberg, 2010). His low self-esteem shows that he does not place a high overall value on himself and his low self-efficacy shows that he does not believe in his ability to perform tasks successfully. According to Greenberg in his text, Managing Behavior in Organizations, the symptoms of burnout include physical exhaustion, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and feelings of low personal accomplishment. As a result, his negative affectivity is heightening his stressors and that further induces is negative mood, heightened strain, burnout, and poor job performance.