In the beginning of Tangerine, Mr. Fisher seems to be overlooking a lot of issues in Lake Windsor Downs. Some examples of things overlooked: the muck fire (previously mentioned), his boss, the weather, neighbors not following conduct, and so forth. All of these things that Mr. Fisher is overlooking are making Ms. Fisher annoyed. This makes the reader feel like she will be pushed past her limit. The big thing Mr. Fisher overlooks in Lake Windsor Downs is weather. On page 31, it says, “ ‘He’s just going to stand there and get soaked?...People shouldn’t stand outside in this kind of rain’...We sat in the beating rain noise for a few minutes, then it abruptly stopped...The sun came out, and the steaming heat rose up all around us. ‘Great,’ Mom muttered. ‘Now it’s sauna time.’ ‘You need to lighten up, Mom.’ ‘Oh, is that right? You’re not the one getting attacked by disappointed rain clouds.’ ” This shows Ms. Fisher wasn’t …show more content…
Fisher overlooks is his boss. “ ‘He’s a real character. You’ll have to meet him. Spends half his life at the stock-car races. He’s crazy about stock-car racing.’ … ‘You mean he’s really not there?’... ‘Right. He’s really not there…’ Mom was concerned. ‘And that’s OK?’ ” (Bloor, Page 11). This means Mr. Fisher wasn’t truthfully paying attention to the condition of his job. However, by the “OK?” comment made by Ms. Fisher, it shows that she is concerned. She doesn’t think it’s ok based on how the word was written. It was in all capital letters causing the reader to think this is important. Ms. Fisher doesn’t trust or like the nature of Mr. Fisher’s job. Mr. Fisher was not paying attention to the fact that it was a bad work environment. On forbes.com there is an article on how to thrive when the boss is not around. The author, Jacquelyn Smith, quoted many people who have been in bad work environments or have studied that If Mr. Fisher was a real person, he should go on that website. Or Ms. Fisher could look at it and help him
In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, what character made the choices that had significant consequences for the development of Paul's character? In this book, my verdict is that Mrs. Fisher, Paul’s mom, mostly affected Paul in negative and positive ways throughout this book. The first choice is, Mrs. Fisher made the whole book by making the move from Houston to Tangerine. Without this move, nothing would be the same.
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.
At the end of Part 1 in the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor it states “ the heavens had opened up for me.” and it means that Paul gets to play goalie again. On page it states “I want to go to Tangerine Middle School, and I want to go with no IEP. " It also states “I wouldn't be the water boy there. I'd be the goalie" on page .
Do you have an older sibling? Are they a good example to you? Do they tease or ignore you? In the novel Tangerine, the author uses the examples of the Costello brotherhood and Fisher brotherhood to convey the idea of a strong brotherhood and a weak one. Mike, the eldest Costello plays on the Lake Windsor High School football team. He loves and cares for his little brother, Joey, as Joey looks up to him. Mike takes Joey to and from soccer practice like it says on page 46, “ nah, I’ll catch a ride with Mike.” This shows that joey also trusts his brother and that they have a strong relationship based on love, trust and stability. The Fishers on the other hand have a weak bond based on hatred intimidation and feuds. Paul, the youngest, despises
The Lake is the place to be on a hot summer day, but how is it supposed to be any fun when the lake is drying up each day.
Tangerine is a fascinating novel that includes mystery, loyalty, and friendship. The main character, Paul Fisher, and his family decided to move to a new house in Tangerine, Florida for the “Erik Fisher Football Dream”. In his parent’s eyes, especially his father, Erik is the “Golden Child.” Ever since they decided to move to Tangerine, Paul keeps having flashbacks of things that would confuse him. When Paul joins a soccer team at Tangerine Middle School, his teammates help him discover some things that have been happening in his town.
In the book, Tangerine Paul, a middle school soccer player, has many chilling flashbacks. These flashbacks determine the climax of the book in lots of different ways. But why that's the reason for this essay. In the book, Erik is mentioned in all the flashbacks and is harassing/bullying Paul. The story's climax by his brother’s actions in his flashbacks, which end up to Paul ratting out Erik for part of the murder of Luis Cruz.
In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Erik Fisher, who is very mischievous, makes choices that later than effect Paul throughout the novel and his life through Threats and beatings. For one, Paul is told that he was visually impaired because he stared at at a solar eclipse to long, but it was Erik who made him blind. Or when Paul witnesses Erik and Arthur kill Luis Cruz, made Paul go crazy knowing that Erik’s secret is finally been revealed. This Essay will be about how Erik Fisher’s choices affect Paul throughout the novel Tangerine.
In the novel tangerine, the motif is used both literally and figuratively in several characters. For instance, Mom sees that Paul has horrible eyesight and thinks she is helping Paul by assigning him and IEP, but she doesn't see that it is affecting his social life in a negative way. Dad sees Eric as a huge football hero, but he doesn’t see that Eric has an awful, secret personality. This affects him and his relationship with his parents and brother in an extremely non-positive way. Also this affects his views and opinions on social life, friends, and school. The Fisher parents doesn't see the important things according to Paul.
“We have to stop the cycle of violence affecting so many of our communities. We have to love each other,” once said by Darryl Glenn. Mrs.Fisher expressed an impact on Paul making him feel sorrowful in his own situations. Mr.Fisher causes Paul’s negative self-concept, and Erik Fisher ruins, and destroys Paul’s relationships with his peers. Mrs.Fisher is an unfavorable character in this book.
Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, is a young adult fiction novel about the unfortunate events and dark secrets of Paul and his family, which ultimately reveal that the truth may hurt but must be found no matter the difficulty.. Tangerine revolves around the motif of sight and it shows how the use of sight partially or fully can be beneficial or harmful. Through the motif of sight, Paul, the main character in the novel, experiences a growing understanding of his friends, family, and himself.
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are (in our raw and pure form), without all the worldly superfluities and additions in our characters and morals brought about by personal decisions and undertakings defacing your true colors.” In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Paul is faced with an overwhelming load of adversity upon moving to the lightning-strike capital of the entire continental U.S., Tangerine County, Florida. Along the way, throughout the whole novel, Paul is forced to battle a plethora of internal conflicts, doubts, and opposition, including the strange nature of the city resulting in a perpetual muck fire. To surmount this adversity and stay strong, Paul makes countless impactful choices, all of which serve to either make or break him, depending on how he bounces back from predicaments and acts.
“I always had a desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything that hurt.” How would you feel if a man with gray hair and looked like a ghost walked up on you and made this statement? These are the evil words of man that was known as a serial killer.
Everyone makes mistakes. In tangerine by Edward Bloor Mrs. Fisher, the main character's mother had a tough time figuring out what would be best for her youngest son Paul. She thought her decisions were for the best, but it turns out she had made the wrong choices which caused a great amount of change in Paul’s life. These changes were not exactly for the better causing Paul to be angry and upset with her because of all the mistakes she has made. Paul was already going through a rough patch in his life and Mrs. Fisher was making it worse for him. He had to move to from Texas to Tangerine Florida, had to go to a brand new school, and most of all, he had to face his frightening older brother Erik. Paul blamed everything good or bad on his
The story has an all-knowing third person narrative technique with focus on the protagonist and the setting around her. The short story starts by using the first five sentences to present the weather. “Three weeks of windless sun”. This establishes the overall setting for the reader. The setting is basically described as being a hot summer day, which has lasted for three weeks, with no cooling wind, and the suns heat burning on the ground. The cooling and moving water is in contrast to the clouds and the wind. ”Nothing moves except the water”. There is a longer introduction to the water but it continuous from a different perspective. This leads to an introduction of both the water but also the main character. “She sits at her desk in the back room gazing out at the river. Where it rounds the first bend there's an eddy as the current twists out into the middle...”. J.S Butler is using sentences like the one above to set focus on the importance of the protagonist and the setting, and thereby indirectly telling the reader that the woman and the lake are of significance to the story.