Erik Fisher In Edward Bloor's 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.

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.

Erik’s choices have taught me and others that Erik doesn’t think about the choices he makes and how they affect people. He only cares about himself and his dreams. If Erik doesn’t have his way he forces his way. This is a good thing to remember because you may have a friend or a person you know like this. Instead of running away from them if your scared, you could teach that person the effects of your choices about yourself or somebody else. This is important because this happens in everyday life and you need to not just focus on yourself, but on others and to watch what your choices can do in the

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.

The eclipse represents the veiled truth that his parents have kept from him; the whole book is about receiving flashbacks about his past. And these flashbacks are clues which help Paul figure out how his eyes got damaged. During an eclipse, the moon blocks the sun, just as Paul’s parents hid the ugly truth from him. On page 33, it states, “Erik was telling his friends this story. The reason for the coke-bottle glasses on my eyes was that I had stares at the sun, unprotected during that eclipse. The story puzzles me then and it puzzles me now. Puzzled or not, I went right along with the story.” Paul has

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

The book Tangerine By Edward Bloor is a Novel about the Fisher Family moving to Florida. Paul Fishers competition is Soccer Likewise Edward Bloor. Edward Bloor Was a soccer player when he was around Pauls age. Edward wanted the core of his story to be about soccer However his brother Erick makes his life Miserable.

The Fisher brothers relationship is full of intimidation, and distance. In the book it says, “Erik, he tried to kill me!”(pg3) “There he goes. Blaming me again.”(pg4) These citations show how so far apart they are, because paul is thinking Erik tried to kill him. But Erik wont eve try anything to make things better, he goes right to thinking that paul is trying to get him in trouble and blaming him for anything. There actions towards each other shows how they do not feel any love or show any love towards each other.

In the novel, Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, Paul and Erik don't really get along. Paul has many flashbacks on thing that Erik did to him and they aren't good flashbacks either. Eriks choices affected Paul greatly. The choices that Erik made that affected Paul were Erik calling Paul “Eclipse boy”, Luis’s death, and when Erik put spray paint in Paul’s eyes. All of the choices had a brutal outcome that affected Paul.

Tangerine is a book full of mystery, secrets, and danger. In the novel Tangerine, the protagonist, Paul, goes through many changes. He moves to Tangerine, Florida, goes to a new school, meets new people, and makes new friends. Later on in the story, he overcomes his fear of his brother, also the antagonist, Erik. Paul as well struggles to find out how he lost part of his vision. In the novel, Tangerine, Edward Bloor creatively uses flashback and symbolism to reveal the theme, growth and change.

Therefore, after the Cruz family and Paul near the end of fighting “The Freeze”, Luis tell Paul, “‘I’m just telling you this so you’ll know. You seem kinda scared of Erik and Arthur Bauer.’ ‘Yeah. I am. Who wouldn’t be?’... Luis’s uncle walked up and started talking to him, so I drifted back inside, thinking about my fear of Erik. How could I be so totally afraid, and Luis not be the slightest bit afraid, of the exact same thing?’(229) Paul becomes aware that not everyone is afraid of Erik and he begins to question his own beliefs about his feelings towards his brother. It puts into perspective that his “big and scary” problems are not such great conflicts when one takes the initiative to stand up to them. This influences Paul to lose his trepidation for when he confronts Erik. It reduces Erik’s power over keeping Paul silent when he witnesses his older brother committing something unlawful. Adding to that, after being reminded of a familiar name, Castor, and white spray paint, Paul analyzes what really led to the beginning of his terrible eyesight. He confronts his parents and they say, “‘You were five years old, Paul. There was only so much you could understand. All you could understand was that something bad had happened… I was so terrified that you would

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.

Paul Fisher was just another normal five year old boy until his brother Erik, did something that would change his life forever. In the book Tangerine written by Edward Bloor there is a boy named Paul Fisher and he has a brother named Erik. He and his brother weren't the closest of friends, and Erik made some pretty bad decisions. Erik Fishers choices affected Paul by making him legally blind, hating his family for not giving him the truth, and by thinking what had happened to him was his fault.

With this choice having been made, Paul’s friendships are damaged. The instance in which Erik hits Tino is on page 205, “Immediately, faster than I thought he could, faster than Tino thought he could, Erik lashed out, smashing the back of his hand across Tino’s face, smashing him so hard that Tino spun halfway around in the air and landed on the grass.” The effect of this act of violence is that Paul’s friends begin to associate Paul with Erik together being on similar terms. Presumably on the premise that they are brothers and Paul did nothing to stop Erik. In order to mend his relationship with his friends (Particularly Tino), Paul learns how to improve his friendships by helping each other and gaining one another’s

Edward Bloor's novel Tangerine, is about a seventh grader Paul. In the book Paul has to make many choices. Paul is legally blind, he has an abusive brother, and he is overlooked by his parents. However, he is not the only one that had to make big choices. Paul’s mom, Mrs. Fisher, also had to make many decisions that affected her son.