Character Analysis Of Paul In Tangerine By Edward Bloor

For example, “I want to go to Tangerine Middle School, and I want to go with no IEP.” This demonstrates that Paul wanted to start over and have a new experience since his soccer career with Lake Windsor Middle was ruined. He chose to go to that school because of the different possibilities that would be open to him. Paul’s reaction to this new school was accepting when he first got there compared to the things he has heard about it. He wasn’t judging anybody or treating them any different and it genuinely made him an improved person. In conclusion, moving to Tangerine Middle changed

Overall in the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor Erik Fisher makes many decisions that have both positive and negative effects on Paul Fisher. Erik’s decisions cause Paul to be bullied, be less afraid of Erik, and become more mature. Erik does this by bullying

Tangerine is a novel about a boy, named Paul, who moves to a strange city, seemingly where anything could happen. There, he strives to become accustomed to his new environment and tries to figure out the single most prominent mystery of his life - how he had come to wear the Coke-bottle glasses on his eyes. Paul deals with multiple flashbacks, occasionally traumatic recurrences of his past, which helps him unravel the secret his family has been keeping from him. As Erik, Paul’s superstar brother and whose shadow Paul has always stood in, wreaks havoc upon the inhabitants of Tangerine, it tests the relationships of Paul and his newfound friends. In the novel, Tangerine, the author Edward Bloor makes notable use of flashback and symbolism to

In conclusion, the choices made by the fisher family in Tangerine affected Paul greatly by making him feel fear, unimportant and gave him a low self

The students all took a practice test and only thirty-three percent of the students have passed and the states minimum average is seventy-five percent. Throughout the school year, the students work effortlessly with Mr. Clark along with their school teachers prepare for the real test. Mr. Clark’s crazy and wild antics start to get to the students and they begin to respect him even more for it. They begin to see that he is only doing this with all of their best interests in mind. One of the students who was expelled’s mother complained about the way Mr. Clark ran things at his school and got the mayor involved. After Mr. Clark is found with the chains on the door, which is illegal and a fire safety hazard, and was arrested. All of the students came down to the Board of Education in Paterson and basically protested and ranted on how they wanted Mr. Clark to be released and return to his duties as principal. Eastside High’s assistant principal Mrs. Barrett claims that Mr. Clark was not the right choice to serve as principal of Eastside. But the students all say in rebuttal how Mr. Clark cares for them like no other and how he has done so much good for them that they will not accept anyone besides Mr. Clark. Soon after, Mr. Clark was released and good news was received. More than enough students

Have you ever felt that twist and turn in your stomach as if you were about to be murdered by a maniac? Well in the book “Tangerine” by Edward Bloor there’s a lot of situation to deal with Fear, Heroism, and Seeing. Seeing is the most important of them all because seeing the truth has a very important meaning in this book. The main character Paul shows all the themes of the book but mostly fear.

In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor there is a teenage boy named Paul who has just moved to a Tangerine, Florida. Paul is legally blind, but he doesn’t know how he became blind. Also, Paul has a very dysfunctional family. His parents are unaware of what’s going on in Paul’s life. And his brother bullies and hurts Paul in many ways.

Everyone has been misunderstood at one time or another. It’s part of the human life. Difference. Difference is what brings us together. Paul Fisher is different. In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the protagonist, Paul Fisher, is legally blind. Misunderstood his whole life. While he legally cannot see, he can see what others can’t. Or won’t. This has plagued Paul’s life and throws a shadow over his memory. His memory is holding Paul back. He has been told his whole life that he became blind from staring at a solar eclipse for an hour. But he can’t remember it. Paul and his family are now moving to Florida to start a new life. Paul’s zombies are following, waiting to come out of the shadows and finally reveal what they’ve been hiding from Paul. As Paul struggles with the secrets in his family and changing schools, he feels intimidated and misunderstood, but he soon learns that he’s been a coward all his life, but there’s nothing to be afraid of, and he begins to stand up for himself and

Have you ever made a choice before? Chances are you have, and the people in the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor are no exception. The novel is about Paul Fisher, a kid with thick glasses, and the adventures he has in his new home in Tangerine florida. Even though Paul himself makes many choices, today were focusing on the choices made by his mother(Mrs.Fisher) and how they affect Paul. Mrs.Fisher often makes major choices that will affect Paul immensely, without Pauls consent or opinion.

Choices impact people like nothing else, your actions and words can hurt someone so much. In the book Tangerine, Erik is known to bully and harass Paul. Paul becomes overwhelmed with his feelings. Erik’s choices impact Paul by bullying him, making him unconfident, and tearing him away from his family. Tangerine by Edward Bloor.

Many characters made careless choices in the book that affected Paul but Eric made the most. In the book Tangerine, Eric’s choices and the consequences of his choices affected the development of Paul in three ways. When Eric hit Tino and when Paul figured out that Eric was the reason he was blind. Paul is a boy who just moved from Texas to Florida. He moves to a place called Lake Windsor Downs. He goes to school at Lake Windsor Downs Middle School, but there was a tragedy at that school so he moved to Tangerine Middle School. He goes out for the Tangerine soccer team and makes it. Then horrible things start happening.

Greg and from “The treasure of Lemon Brown,” is one of the main characters.He is a kid around kid middle school and loves basketball.In the beginning of the book we find out that Greg is failing math and may not be able to play basketball because the way Greg acts impacts his dad because his dad wants him to do good in school so he will do good in life.That is one of the two people Greg impacts in the story.Lemon Brown is another character that Greg impacts.They meet when Greg tries to escape the rain by going into an abandon house and meets Lemon Brown.They end up chasing away crooks after the criminals tried to steal from them.After this situation Lemon Brown realizes that he isn’t lonely anymore and that someone cares for him.

In Edward Bloor’s novel Tangerine, Theresa’s choices and the consequences of her choices affect the main character Paul’s development. Throughout the book, Theresa made choices that change Paul in different ways.

”(p.94) A choice made by paul to go to Tangerine middle school affected paul by him meeting the boys on the soccer team that he had gotten thrown into suspension. This also affected Paul by him being a backup on the team. Paul made this choice because at his old school Lake windsor middle he had an IEP which restricted him from playing soccer. So at Tangerine middle he had been able to play soccer with no IEP.

In Edward Bloor’s Tangerine, Paul, the main character, makes choices that affect him greatly, because he gets hurt physically, he gets expelled, he gets rid of feeling scared of his older brother Erik, and he finds out a secret his family has been hiding from him for his whole life. In this story, the main character's family moves from Texas to Florida because Paul's father gets a new job as the Deputy Director of Civil Engineering. As the days go by, he notices some very unusual things about his new home in Tangerine. On November 4th, Paul makes the choice to confess to Tino that he “ratted” him and his friends out.