Character Analysis Tangerine

Everyone wants to dive in to a juicy book right?Well Tangerine is the perfect novel to read.The novel’s theme is Loyalty and facing your fears.The novel is about a boy named Paul Fisher.He recently moved to Tangerine,Florida with his family.He has an interesting life,he is legally blind and has to wear coke bottle glasses ,his brother ,Erick,who constantly bullies him and he has parents who are blinded with lies.In the novel Tangerine, the author,Edward Bloor,uses flashbacks and symbolism to represent loyalty and overcoming your fears.

In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor Erik Fisher, Paul Fisher’s older brother, causes Paul to be bullied, less afraid of him, and more mature. Throughout the book Erik Fisher makes many decisions that cause Paul to be stronger and more mature. Erik does this by causing Paul to be bullied, causing Luis Cruz’s death, and betraying Paul’s trust.

“It was some time before he could put Alfred, Georgia, Sixo, Schoolteacher, Halle, his brothers, Sethe, minister, the taste of iron, the sight of butter, the smell of hickory, notebook paper, one by one, into the tobacco tin lodged in his chest. By the time he got to 124 nothing in this world could pry it open.” (Morrison 133) The tobacco tin represents privacy and his past. Paul D was locking up his past in this tin can. The tin can isn’t even something Paul D can open up himself. In this next quote, Paul D and Sethe were discussing the past but they decide not to go in too deep into their memories. “Saying more might push them both to a place they couldn't get back from. He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be. It's lid rusted shut. He would not pry it loose now in front of this sweet sturdy woman, for if she got a whiff of the contents it would shame him. And it would hurt her to know that there was no red heart as bright as Mister’s comb beating in him." (Morrison 86). This quote shows that both Sethe and Paul D were unwilling to dwell on the past too much due to their fear of reliving it. Paul D attempts to force his memories into that tobacco tin but they always found a way to leak back out once again. Next it is important to discuss how Emily holding onto her father represents the theme.

“I’ve always been afraid of Erik”, says Paul. He says this because Erik Fisher’s choices and consequences greatly and negatively influenced Paul, the main character, in the novel Tangerine. From blinding him, to causing him to be ignored, Erik Fisher really shaped Paul’s life, in a bad way.

The significance of the vivid image as a vivid memory in the story means the audience can take part in Paul’s journey.So that they can empathize with him and his experiences, through distinctively visual.

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.

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.

Tangerine is a realistic fiction novel written by Edward Bloor and is a novel about a

The memory flashes can represent Paul finding his place in society. An example would be on page 76, "I remembered the face of Boy Who Never Grew, the face of the eighty-nine-year-old little boy. I remembered the fear in his eyes. I know that fear. It's my fear.

In the novel Tangerine, the author, Edward Bloor, uses

Themes and symbols differ in from the chapters, where chapter 4 has the theme people turning into animals, and symbols of brotherhood. 'We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers—we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.' This quote explains how the transition from the safety of shelter, to the horrid battlefield causes soldiers to become animals to survive, de-evolve animals to evolve in the war. Brotherhood is symbolised by Paul's actions to a recruit. During shelling, Paul grabs a helmet and places it on the recruits head, this contravenes the death symbol, proposing what is wrong and right; risk your life for your comrades or to become emotionless and survive the war. On a 'larger scale', chapters prior to chapter 4 include recollections and/or flashblacks relative to Pauls situation. 'I still remember how embarassed we were at the beginning when we were recruits in the barracks'. Chapter 4 has its main focus on the battle, and how Paul's character changes. There is also a difference in paragraph lengths, where chapters 1,2 and 3 have slighter larger paragraphs than chapters 4. This is due to the fact that the first 3 chapters were use as context information for the reader whislt chapter 4 had shorter paragraphs, due to the fast pace battle in the

In the beginning of this chapter it shows that Himmelstoss wants to get on good terms after the bombard in the trenches. Also Paul, Leer, and Kropp swim and meet three women. The boys are interested in the girls and break the rule of swimming across the canal. Paul gets in trouble and has to head home. Sadly, Paul finds out that his mother is sick and has cancer. After Pauls return home he doesn’t feel right, his home doesn’t feel like a home. Once his parents start asking him questions about his time during the war, he can’t put it to words. Paul wants to find the youth and child-like persona he used to have. Its just he has been wiped away and the identity of a solider is what he is. Later on in the chapter it turns out that Kantorek has

For example, in a note that he wrote to his mother while on leave, Paul lets his mother know how he is truly feeling. In the letter he directly says that he is no longer the same; the books he once enjoyed no longer brought happiness to his mind, it was more of a reminder of who he was and was never going to be again. The second example is also shown in the same scene where he is writing the letter to his mother. During that scene Paul’s desk is scattered with past drawings he had done. Those papers show that drawing is something he either wanted to do as he got older or just something that he did during his past time. This example shows that Paul is no longer the same, because during his time at the front Paul is only shown drawing twice. The last example is at the end of the movie before Paul dies. Paul, who took the position as leader after Kat died, was smoking a cigarette while checking on the other soldiers. This example is an obvious change in Paul, who before had always politely declined the offer of a cigarette saying that he doesn’t like to smoke and would never take up the habit. In the movie, from beginning to end, Paul shows a lot of chang. Paul shows a lot of change throughout the movie, fortunately Paul was able to put everything aside for a moment and was able to die doing the thing he loved to do the most;

In one scene the audience sees that Paul Conroy, our main character, begins to make progress when he goes through a phone that was left in the box with him. He calls one of the numbers thinking that it could connect him to people that may help him. During Paul's conversation with his captures the audience sees a close-up of his face, helping to show the anxiety and panic that paul is feeling. He soon realizes