Character Of Paul In Tangerine

Paul’s eyesight issue really changes things for him in the book. It affects his relationships, how he sees the world, and how he grows as a person. The novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor is about a family who moved from Houston, Texas to Lake Windsor, Florida. Paul is the youngest son with a visual impairment who is always overlooked by his brother Erik because of the “Erik Fisher football dream”. Body Paragraph 1: Bloor uses vivid imagery to develop vision.

Every choice has an impact, but it is the reaction of those impacted that determines the final outcome. In the novel Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, paul fisher is impacted by the choices of others everyday including Erik’s choices that impact paul in a horrible way because of paul’s own reactions.

Paul made that decision because he does not like his brother because he was bullying his friends. Paul started to gain confidence from that moment. Paul shows the confidence he gains when he helps Tino and Victor escape from the gym by standing up to Arthur and Erik when they meet when Paul was running away from the gym. He does what Luis did to confront Erik and Arthur by saying he is not scared. Then, Erik has had it so the drove away.

Because of Eric’s decisions Paul is now not afraid to speak up. And he will now know to speak up when there is a problem. In the book Tangerine, Eric’s choices and the consequences of his choices affected the development of Paul in two ways. When Eric hit Tino and when Paul figured out that Eric was the reason he was

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

As a result of this Paul feels secondary to Eric because Eric gets more attention from Mom and Dad. In page 289 it said,”When we moved to Houston, when Erik was eleven, he realized football was the star attraction.” From this evidence, we see that Paul feels less important to his family. Additionally, we can see that Paul is being ignored, almost to the point where he is abandoned. This helps Paul build his character because he tumbles down, losing more than his

Tangerine Essay By Samantha Zazado. The novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor is a realistic fiction. It's about a boy named Paul who faces challenges, fears, and consequences. Paul’s family moved to Florida and had to meet new people, and Paul needed to find a way to make the soccer team.

“That brings me up to Joey’s phone call asking me if I’m all right. I am all right. I’m more than alright. Finally.” In the novel, Tangerine by Edward Bloor, many characters change; but the most important change is how Paul morphs into a different person.

What would you do if you had a golden opportunity. Well In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, The main character Paul struggles with self confidence and his relationship with his brother, he feels like he is the weirdo in the family and that his brother bullies him because of it, but he soon realises he really isn’t such a big weirdo and does not need worry about what his brother thinks of him. When paul first moves to Tangerine, Florida he isn’t so confident, but after some changes like switching schools he builds his confidences back, he soon then learns the real truth about his past. Even though things start off tough he leans that things aren’t always going to be bad if you just make them good, and also learns how to deal with the bad.

’SWOOSH!’’ That was the sound of someone’s foot kicking a soccer ball, or was it a football? Either way the only important ‘’SWOOSH’’ sound is the one that is heard on the sports fields that Erik Fisher plays. Why you ask? Because in Tangerine by Edward Bloor Paul Fisher will learn that even those visually impaired can see when someone is cruel.

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

The choices that Erik made throughout his life never came without consequences, many of his choices, whether they were choices directed to him or not, affected Paul. Paul illustrates this idea by saying, “When we moved to Houston, when Erik was eleven, he realized that football was the star attraction,”(Bloor 29) This is talking about the “birth” of the “Erik Fisher Football Dream”; Erik use to play soccer and was successful at it, but he realized that football was the place to be if he wanted attention. Paul could’ve started playing soccer at that time as well and Erik didn’t want to risk being outshined by his younger brother. Another way Erik affected Paul, in a more indirect way, was when Arthur becomes Erik’s crony, “What will Arthur do

Erik is an extremely disrespectful person who shows no respect for authority or others. One reason is he orders Arthur to kill Luis. It is very disrespectful (and illegal) to hit an innocent person over the head with a blackjack. Another example showing that Erik is disrespectful is that he made fun of Joey’s dead brother Mike. When Mike died in a lightning storm at a football practice, Erik called him “Mohawk Man” to Mike’s brother. Paul is the opposite of Erik; he is respectful to his parents and to authority. He eventually reports in the end of the book that he saw Arthur hit Luis Cruz with a

Have you ever woken up with these bulky glasses not knowing where they came from and your parents telling you a lie. Well in Tangerine by Edward Bloor the main character Paul goes through just that. His brother Erik has been mean and putting Paul down his entire life. Paul has been learning to not be afraid and see through the shadiest lies.

Erik told Arthur to do something with Luis so he snuck up on Luis and batted him on the side of the head with a blackjack.The imagery I see is Arthur getting things out of his bag and sneaking up on Luis to hurt him.A couple days later, Luis died. Everyone thought a tree branch hit him, but they don't know the truth. Paul wanted to tell the truth, but he was