Erik Fisher: The Consequences Of Choices

To start with, in a fit of rage, Erik and his ‘goon’, Castor, decide to spray paint five-year-old Paul’s eyes. Page 255 says, “I turned around and saw Vincent Castor. He was holding a can of spray paint. Then I felt Erik grab me from behind, easily pinning both of my arms with just one of his. I could hear my voice crying, ‘I didn’t tell! I didn’t tell!’ And I remembered Erik’s fingers prying my eyelids open while Vincent Castor sprayed white paint into them. They left me screaming and rolling around on the floor of the garage.” Somebody, somehow, told on Castor and Erik when they both “painted something” (page 255) on a gray wall. When Castor and Erik found out, the terror of

Antwone Fisher in my opinion is probably the most impactful movie I have ever seen. People may say, “ What a good movie” but I say “what a good man”.

The novel’s main characters struggle when it comes to making decisions based on personal moralities.

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

Hard choices can change life harshly and negatively. Considering this, the choice Marilyn made about getting on the ship ended in a negative way. This is true, as Marilyn acknowledges, “ when I hid on this ship, I got into something I didn’t know anything about and now I have to pay for it” (18). To pay for the choice she made, she had to perish. The one act had changed her life and her families. The decision Marilyn had made, had an awful resolution. Even more, Marilyn's consequence is about to change her life.

When the brothers were young Erik makes the choice to spray paint in Paul eyes causing him to go blind. Erik believed that Paul told on his best friend Castor even after Paul confirmed he didn’t do it. Erik and Castor grab paul and spray paint into his eyes.

You can tell that Paul is afraid of his older brother, Erik. Another quote that showed flashback was, “I turned around and saw Vincent Castor. He was holding a can of spray paint. Then I felt Erik grab me from behind. And I remembered Erik’s fingers prying my eyelids open while Vincent Castor sprayed white paint into them.

Because of the author, Ernest J Gaines, uses fifteen different people to tell the narrative, you can see the conflict and repercussions of this breaking point

Everyone makes choices, but sometimes our choices can make us. What kinds of impacts do our decisions make on us? This concept is explored in depth in Lauren McLaughlin’s novel “Scored”. In “Scored”, Imani’s choices to continue to be friends with Cady, collaborate with Diego on the Otis scholarship essay, and save Diego from his arrest all impact her in various ways.

Dr. Barry Swartz discusses a topic he explores in his book “The Paradox of Choice” written with Kenneth Sharpe. Dr. Swartz examines practical wisdom and the practices currently utilized to mock practical wisdom by bankers, teachers, and doctors. Dr. Swartz is a psychologist who studies the connections between the psychological and the economic communities. Dr. Swartz heads the argument by stating that many people have a general distrust for the specialists who are meant to be working for them such as bankers, doctors, and teachers. He states that this is due to the fact that though most of the population wants to be virtuous they are rarely given the option to demonstrate virtuous behavior.

Before I address the experiences the main character faces it is important to point out that in

Warren Farrell is explaining how because women have more “choices” they have more power than men. He uses the example of women being more in control of when, where, and how many kids they have, where men only have the option to work for money to support their family. He says this lack of choices given to men result in higher suicide rates, because a woman could have child without his knowledge and he would still be required by law to pay, he could go through a divorce and still be required by law to be finically responsible for a family that supposedly doesn’t love him. Forcing him to use his body in a more stressful way than he would want. He goes on to give many more examples but these were the ones that stuck out at me. Do you think that

Everyday, we humans make choices. Sometimes, we make these choices based off of our own natural instincts, while at other times, we make these choices based off of the way our society has shaped us. Inevitably, these choices determine our fate and make us who we are. Often times, authors implement these choices into their written works. This is heavily shown in the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, and The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Barry Schwartz titled his talk “The Paradox of Choice” because choice presents both good and bad things. Because of this, choice is a paradox. We live in a world full of a million different choices: where to eat, what car to buy, what phone to get, who we associate with, the list goes on and on. If we didn’t have any choices, our lives would be dull and mediocre at best. But with so many choices, studies have shown that we are less happy because of specific factors that have to do with having large amounts of choices to make and options to chose from.

I see that there are multiple criminology theories as I read this book and one of the first theories that I’ll be discussing is the Choice Theory. Now for this theory I believe that the character, Jessica, fits perfectly into it. I believe this because for the Choice Theory it is about the belief that people choose to commit a crime. Seeing the opportunities before them and knowing the benefit is better versus the consequences and to decide whether to continue to commit the criminal activity or not to proceed to commit it. This mainly focuses on the idea that we all have the choice in life to do our actions. Now because of the punishment involved, people are more cautious of committing the crime.